Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on July 02, 2025, 12:08:44 PM
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A chihuahua has been rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth after surviving for nearly two weeks in the tenement.
The puppy called Vilo was feared dead in the Scott Street fire which happened on 14 June.
Vilo was later spotted in the window of the tenement building by nearby residents.
After pinpointing her location with thermal imaging, Vilo took food and drink from traps left by demolition workers and was eventually lured out by leaving clothes belonging to her owners on 27 June.. Well done keen eyed neighbours :-*
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Chihuahua are hardier than they look :D
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She had made a bed in the bottom of a wardrobe ........
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Now: doesn't Rachel Reeves know that when upset in the work place 1 goes to the toilet to shed one's tears :-\ not in front of the whole World? That hasn't done women any favours!
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Probably a ploy, I personally couldn't care less about her tears, what I do care about is some pensioners crying because they can't afford heating this winter >:(
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Yep. Agree. MayB she's menopausal :whist:
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;D never thought about that
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;D. Brad Pitt has taken part in another film about Silverstone directed by Lewis Hamilton. And ;D
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New born babies taken from mothers within hours due to Danish parenting tests for Greenlandic women ! :o :'( [Sat Guardian magazine last week]
Also: The Guardian again: 'Being a wedding guest will cos nearly £3,000 each event this year' ....... I would never consider funding the honeymoon ;D as part of attending. I may consider funding the flowers or something smaller as their gift because most couples have everything B4 getting wed.. Nor would I be interested in a wedding abroad nor going to the hen night :D
Our whole 'do' 50 years ago cost £300.00 all in. And we had to be out of the Hotel by 4.00 p.m. - plenty long enough anyway - as they had a dinner dance booked for that evening. Job done :-*
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Why oh why oh WHY!
An NHS doctor and her husband have been jailed for 10 months each after selling stolen hospital PPE on eBay during the Covid pandemic.
Dr Attiya Sheikh, 46, and 48-year-old Omer Sheikh made almost £8,000 from selling the personal protective equipment as the virus was spreading throughout the UK in 2020.
The pair admitted selling stolen gloves, face masks and wipes online at a time when the NHS was struggling to get hold of them.
Sheriff Sukhwinder Gill said the doctor had committed an "egregious breach of trust" while working at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.. >:(
Hopefully she will be stuck off !
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>:( disgusting
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However: 1 would require thick gloves when handling this!
An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital information about Earth's climate.
The glassy cylinder is the planet's oldest ice and was drilled from deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet.
Frozen inside is thousands of years of new information that scientists say could "revolutionise" what we know about climate change.
BBC News went inside the -23C freezer room at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge to see the precious boxes of ice.
Getting together in company can help both those diagnosed with chronic conditions as well as their families:: Tony Deeney was diagnosed with Parkinson's at just 38 and the degenerative condition gradually left feeling isolated and with little enthusiasm for life.
But after two decades struggling with the condition, he says cycling has helped him rediscover a sense of independence.
It was almost 10 years after his retirement that Tony discovered the benefits of exercise for people with Parkinson's.
"It became a real game-changer for him," Teresa says.
He started playing table tennis as well as "walking football", aimed at Parkinson's suffers.
It was when he tried chair yoga that a friend encouraged him to attend a cycling club.
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Was it really up to Chris Martin to call out a couple standing close at his Concert? He should remember who pays his wages >:(
A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.
Astronomer said in a statement: "Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted."
The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.
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Was just a fluke,these cameras hone in on anyone,wasn't the man married? Not that it's got anything to do with anyone if he's having an affair.
Now now clkd, I love Coldplay so be careful what you say about Mr Martin ;D
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Who should keep his nose out of what others might be doing!
Moving on: The government is preparing a "water revolution" that will halve the number of times sewage is discharged into waterways in England and Wales by 2030, the environment secretary has said.
Steve Reed told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the water sector was "broken" and the regulator, Ofwat, was "clearly failing".
The "reset" would include tougher treatment of water company bosses if their companies were not meeting the required standards, including possible prison sentences.
Why wait until 2030, what's wrong with starting next week!!!! Also get rid of salmon farms because it's cruel to keep a migratory species trapped where they R fed ABs and the uneaten food rots making the sea bed foul.
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Any cavers here: this is a real WOW!
The network of passages and giant caverns stretching for 10km (6 miles) was found near English Bicknor in the Forest of Dean.
The first part of the cave system, Redhouse Lane Swallet, was originally found in the 1990s by Paul Taylor, a caver from Gloucester.
Conservation officer and retired physicist Dr Tim Nichols, who was part of a new generation of explorers which discovered the wider network of caverns, said he did not realise the significance of what they had recently found until they saw it.
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A spoon journey:
A teaspoon, taken from the Queens Hotel in Southsea in 1942, has been returned.
The silver spoon, bearing a monogram which identified it as part of the hotel's cutlery, was found in a drawer in the town of Bundanoon in New South Wales, Australia.
The finder, John White sent it back to the hotel with a letter explaining that his parents had borrowed it during a stay at the hotel during the second world war.
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Ms Godsell had returned home from Totton railway station where Watson had been learning how to settle on a train journey and recalled sitting on the sofa feeling unwell.
"Watson is usually a really chilled dog", she explained, "so I couldn't understand why he wouldn't stop nudging me" which he was trained to do in an emergency.
She said: "I tried to go upstairs and lie down, but he blocked the stairs by standing in front of them. In the end, I gave up and sat back down on the sofa."
Watson went into the garden and started barking persistently, something she said is "completely out of character for him" but "it got my neighbour, Sue's, attention".
"Sue knew that Watson didn't usually bark, so came round to investigate, she told me I didn't look well and, despite me protesting that it was just indigestion, she called an ambulance." Sue was suffering a heart attack.
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The Northants Board Game Convention, external aims to bring together anyone who loves a board game for fun, games and community.
It is returning to Kettering Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday, after the one-day event last summer attracted hundreds of people, with many having to be turned away at the door.
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Australians made snowmen and enjoyed snowball fights after parts of New South Wales were blanketed with heavy snow over the weekend.
Officials said around 200 vehicles became stranded when areas of the state received the heaviest snowfall in 20 years.
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U never know what might B in those crates !
The elephants were transported in custom-built travel crates, weighing 10 tonnes each, specially designed to keep them comfortable for the duration of their road trip.
This included being fitted with air conditioning and CCTV cameras for drivers to check on them during the four-hour journey.
The two lorries, driven by animal transportation experts, travelled in convoy down the motorway with two of the keepers from Whipsnade Zoo.
Beth and Karishma received a health check from the zoo's vet team to confirm they were fit and healthy for the move.
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A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" in its filters, its operator said.
The swarm clogged up the cooling system and caused four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant to automatically switch off, energy group EDF said.
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A gardener has described his delight that his rare plant has flowered after a quarter of a century.
Tony Kennington, 78, who lives in Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said he was given the agave americana 25 years ago when it was 45cm (18in) and now it is more than 6m (20ft) tall.
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Going back to Rachel Reeves, a close friend who is a vicar told me I reminded him of her. I didn’t have a clue what she looked like, I looked her up. I quickly changed my hair colour now she’s done the same, drat it! The only consolation is she’s a good few years younger than me (wicked cackle ensues). I want to look like a medieval baebe, not bloody Rachel Reeve!
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That's news I've missed as I don't follow any news about 'them'.
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Going back to Rachel Reeves, a close friend who is a vicar told me I reminded him of her. I didn’t have a clue what she looked like, I looked her up. I quickly changed my hair colour now she’s done the same, drat it! The only consolation is she’s a good few years younger than me (wicked cackle ensues). I want to look like a medieval baebe, not bloody Rachel Reeve!
So if people start throwing rotten tomatoes at you you know why!
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Ha ha yes I think so! Better take an umbrella out with me to keep the rotten veg from hitting my face. When I visit London I have to watch out ha ha!