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we get hospital appointment letters the day after the appointment, and the doctor confirmed one clinic said he cancelled a referral to them, despite the doc not contacting them since making the referral! If you want an appointment for...

I think I belong to one of the most disjointed Doctors surgery's in Britain! On Tuesday I spoke with a Doctor on the phone, she said I did need to see her and to leave it with her to make the appointment. On Wednesday morning I get a...

Watched Sting at Isle of Wight last weekend on Sky Arts he can still sing , reinvented some of his hits but to be fare the crowd seemed ambivalent most of the set, didn't seem to identify with him at all even Edith Bowman seemed to...

Talking of mining....I knew 2 lads from Yorkshire who used to watch Everton...1 was from Thorne and 1 was from Doncaster...[we were only teenagers] Both their dads were lifelong miners... I was invited to attend the big protest at...

Sounds interesting. I've been on guided tours of a few large caves when younger but not an actual mine. Remember while deep in one part of a cave the tour guide saying they were going to turn the lights off for a moment for us to...

Not a years supply of Cornish Pasties ? :08:

I have got a nice bottle of Chateau de Welly from 1975 somewhere. :)

I thought a nice bottle of $5 plonk :rolleyes:

Are you planning to bring a suitably expensive castle-warming gift?

If you lot pop down to Sotheby properties, you can buy your own little island with it's own castle......... all for a mere £5.5 Million...

The castle and the surrounding beaches at Bamburgh are great, especially when the sea fret comes in

Yes I did a tour about 20 years ago, it was very interesting, my advice is leave anything electronic in the car as they have to take it off you before you go down

Sting - 73 years old and still singing, despite all the abuse his voice must have suffered from performing rock music. In 2009, he released the album, If On a Winter's Night. Quieter music with lute accompaniment, among other...

You don't really realise just how unique and life changing such a massive event was until you look back.....I actually look back in awe at the whole day.....the line ups on both sides of the Atlantic.....the logistics involved to...

Has anyone visited here? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ and gone on an underground tour? I've never taken a tour down a coal mine, although I have been down a salt mine, the Salzbergwerk just outside Berchtesgaden. Bought a small container of...