MEANDERTHALS REMEMBER No. 3

A Memorable Meanderthal Moment!

 

 

Thursday 6^th October 2016

 

We had arranged to have a bike ride, led by Mike the Bike, rather than a walk.

We met on the Bae Sports Centre car park on South Meadow Lane.

We set off heading west along Broadgate following the Guild Wheel. We continued through Preston Dock estate and past Preston Motor Park and continued uphill (difficult even for an electric bike) and continued along the Guild Wheel to the Uclan Sports Centre at Cottam.

A welcome break was taken at ‘The Final Whistle’ café.

Whilst enjoying a brew, I suddenly felt dizzy and put my head between my knees to restore blood flow to my head. Then……..?

 

When I came round, I was lying on the floor being attended to by a First Aider and the Advanced Paramedic had just arrived. He diagnosed a suspected heart attack and the siren of an ambulance could be heard in the distance.

 

I was taken, in a very uncomfortable position, to the Royal Preston Hospital but, because I wasn’t in pain, I continued by ambulance under ‘blues ‘n’ twos’ to Blackpool Victoria Hospital Cardiac Centre. The diagnosis was confirmed and I was ‘stented’. One artery totally blocked and another 40% blocked!

 

I remained in hospital for 72 hours and this was the first time in my life (70 years) that I had spent a night in hospital!

 

Soon after returning home, I was ‘invited’ to attend  ‘Heartbeat’ cardiac rehabilitation gym (at PNE) initially for an hour twice a week for six weeks.  After the initial twelve session, I signed up and I now exercise there in the ‘advanced’ gym.

 

As a result of my experience, two of my relatives and another Meanderthal also attend Heartbeat regularly.

 

For me, it wasn’t quite ‘The Final Whistle’!!!

(Anthony)

PS.  It looks like the Meanderthals are 'an accident waiting to happen'!

MEANDERTHALS REMEMBER 2

FIVE BARRED HIGH DIVE

James remembers :- April 26th 2018

Part way through one of our walks (near Chorley) we arrived at a barbed wire fence. The path showed on the map as going straight on through the gate at which we had arrived. The gate however was firmly padlocked (a bit naughty that !) Our bold, superfit octogenarian (James) decided to climb over the gate.  Which he did. As he did so there came a cry "There's a stile over there." Indeed there was. About fifty metres away. Our octogenarian not realising that the stile led into the same field  began to climb back over the gate.

 As he stood on the very top he lost his balance and plunged backwards to the ground with a sickening "THUD".  Thinking that he was almost certainly injured the group rushed across to help. It took him a little while to regain his composure before he dragged himself to his feet and declared himself, much to the groups surprise and consternation, fine to carry on. It seems he had fallen flat on his back and his rucksack had taken the brunt of the fall.
  ALL WAS WELL.  Well not exactly. When we stopped for lunch our "Tumbler" found the contents of his rucksack in a terrible state with his "Butty Box" in tiny pieces.

 In breaking his fall,  the falls energy had virtually exploded the rucksacks contents. Although James continued with the walk saying he was Ok  in fact he fond later that he was in some pain and had to undergo "Physio" for several weeks before returning to the group.

MEANDERTHALS REMEMBER 1

WHO REMEMBERS 2nd Feb 2012 ?

An icy day in February 2012. We were walking over Bowland  near Fairsnape Fell. There was snow on the ground and an icy wind was blowing. 

We stopped at Paddy's Pole for lunch but the bitter cold meant we didn't stop long before heading towar.ds Parlick Pike.. Only a few minutes later one of the Meanderthals collapsed and could not be revived. A "999" call soon had the air Ambulance on it's way and our casualty was whisked off to hospital.

All ended well after a dramatic day on the fells.

D.I.Y.

ISOLATION 6  GARDEN GATES

It is sometimes said that the queen thinks the world smells of fresh paint as wherever she goes everyone has given things a lick of paint in preparation.

It has been rather like that around here as boredom has made everybody turn to DIY. Fences, sheds, doors and gates are all looking fresh and bright after being painted. 

Self isolation has even made me, an ant-DIY evangelist, turn to one or two "jobs". As far as I'm concerned DIY means breathing and eating. What else do you actually need to do yourself. (Well, I suppose, "begatting" in the dim and distant past) To me DIY = "Do Injure Yourself".

But I have been "Shamed" by over-keen neighbours into painting my garden gate (it was somewhat rusty)

Here are some rather smart gates.

You will have noticed that behind these lovely gates are equally lovely gardens (If you like neat , pretty gardens full of neat, pretty flowers)

As I was painting my gate. (having dealt with the rust)

One of our braver neighbours strolled over to tell me that everyone else had painted their gates BLACK !

With paintbrush poised I stood up and pointed out that my gate was one of the few originals left (nearly 100 years old) and the original colour was green and it would continue to be green. 

"You do like to be different John." she said and scuttled rapidly away.

So.… here is my green gate (actually rather a pale shade ….but.)

….and that is my annual DIY effort  now completed.

John W

Face Mask initiative

The Life of a Queen

Scissors beat Paper

THURSDAY CLAPPING

Clapping For Key Workers

After the first week of clapping for the NHS and other key workers the neighbours suggested I play some music. Reluctantly ('onest) I agreed. Playing by yourself is quite daunting. All the mistakes are YOURS !

So here I am "Twanging" outside my sisters house between the two terraces.  It seems to go down well but I feel acutely embarrassed doing it.

Finished off with "We'll Meet Again " last night. Yuckily sentimental but almost obligatory in the present situation and on the eve of V.E day.

Mike's Done it Again!

Mike the Bike has done it again!

He went on a bike ride and not told us where he went.

Can you work out where he was?

No1 Same start just a bit further on.I'm Just a shadow of myself.

No2 A famous crossroads but what is no longer there.

No3 The lane off the main A6 road!

No4 The bridge shot I didn't quite get..

No5 Easy one but where..

No6  Two miles further on !.

No7 To make sure you know this one.

No8 On the road down to the next one..

No9 A well known landmark and even a bridge shot.

No10 Taken from a bench 200yds. from last photo

No11 From the same bench. The name of the hill.

No12 Left down this lane 8 miles from home, Oops!.

Tiny Tim

You'll split your sides watching this one. 

It's brilliant! Thanks Danny.

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Bridge Painting

This Bridge was painted by Mick Kilgallon from a photograph from one of our walks. Can you identify the location?

Can you speak 'Lanky'?

Can you speak 'Lanky'

(Thanks to 'Blog Preston')

Scroll down the page for the answers....(no prizes!)

1   lobby

2   Slopstones

3   Chunner 

4   Have you owt fresh?

5   Owt

6   Ecky Pecky

7   In Dicky’s Meadow

8   Sidecosser 

9   Bagmuck 

10  Growler 

11  Dancers

12  Clap 

13  Skenn 

14  Once every Preston Guild

15  Couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel

16  Was tha born in a barn an' fed wi' a fire shovel?

17  Tha meks a better dowr than a window

18  Bloomin-eck

19  Cha

20  Alreet

21  Give backword

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     Answers:  The 'translations'

1  lobby– an alley between two houses

2   Slopstones – a sink

3   Chunner – to mutter, as in ‘stop chunnering on’

4   Have you owt fresh? – any news?

5   Owt – meaning anything, as in ‘I don’t want owt for me tea’

6   Ecky Pecky – oh no!

7   Dicky’s Meadow – meaning you’re in trouble, so ‘if I don’t go         now I’m in Dicky’s Meadow’

8   Sidecosser – a kerb or footpath

9   Bagmuck – another word for fertiliser

10  Growler – a pie. Yes, really. Not that other meaning!

11  Dancers – stairs, so ‘get up the dancers’

12  Clap – to catch, used in the context of ‘clap owd of this’

13  Skenn – when someone is squinting, ‘I had to skennit’

14  Once every Preston Guild – when something is rare, happens            every 20 years

15  Couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel – to have bandy or bow legs

16  Was tha born in a barn an' fed wi a fire shovel? – to leave a              door open, said to make someone close a door

17  That meks a better door than a window – said to get someone          out of your way!

18   Bloomin-eck – an expression of shock or wonder

19   Cha – meaning mate, or friend, ‘how you doing cha?’

20   Alreet – often combined with cha, or sometimes cock, or                 cocker, a way of saying hello and asking how someone is

21  Give backword – meaning to cancel an arrangement