BS: Good luck, Mingulay

Subject: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:11 AM

Mingulay is having his eye op on Monday. Good luck and don't chase the nurses around the ward unless you have your PJs on!

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:44 AM

And only then if you can actually see what you are chasing mate. All will go well. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: gnu
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:54 AM

Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 08:19 AM

Good luck lad - hope all goes well.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 01:16 PM

Sending you good vibes from Oz, Mingulay!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 03:32 PM

All the best, Mingulay.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:21 PM

Its only an overnighter ! Mingulay will be home on Tuesday - I will try to get a StatRep and post it before I fly out on Wednesday !

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM

Fare well, fellow matelot.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Zorg
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 04:32 PM

All the bes mate, you will still have one eye I hope

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Peace
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 08:55 PM

Best to you, buddy. Please let us know how it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:41 AM

THE EYEBALL RETURNS. The op has gone well and I still have two orbs albeit that one is red, puffy and just a little on the sore side. Still it's good enough to just about see the telly, order beer and eat lunch with but not good enough to sign cheques with for the foreseeable future (pun intended).

Many thanks to all for your kind thoughts and words. Hope to see some of you around in the not too distant future. Have to close for now as the good eye is complaining of overwork.

Blessed be

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM

Good news, Pete. Rest the eye and yourself.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: jeffp
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:54 AM

Glad it went well.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 11:00 AM

just dropped some Folk Club stuff round to Ming as I am away for a bit - He is a LOT happier than he was last week !

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM

Is the reason for the surgery covered in a different thread?

Good to read that it went well. Any eye surgery sounds scary.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 11:31 AM

This is the thread where the reason for the surgery was talked about.

Glad that it went well and the eyeball was nicely repainted and polished. You wearing your black pirate eyepatch? Arrrrrrr!!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM

The eyeball was excellently repainted and is now resplendent in the later colours of Fellows Morton & Clayton (a UK canal carrying company for our colonial listeners) being red, green and yellow with a nice coat of black bitumen below the waterline. All the seams have been properly caulked with oakum and Stockholm tar rolled by my own fair hands. She's now back in the water and tighter than a duck's arse with not a peep from the bilge pump. Early voyages are being taken with care as I don't want to scratch the new paint!

One disappointment is the lack of a black eyepatch which has meant cancelling the order I made for a parrott (a particularly fine example of a Norwegian Blue).

This typing with one eye is somewhat knackering so I will now leave the cyber airwaves alone for a while.

TTFN Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 11:04 AM

Sounds like a fine eyeball you be havin' there Mingulay! She'll be seaworthy in no time at all!

What a shame about the eyepatch - and I had so pictured you with the patch on your eye and the Norwegian Blue on your shoulder.

I've never typed with my eye before - I usually use my fingers (she said, getting her coat...)

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 01:39 PM

Thanks! I read up about that when it first appeared and thought it might be the same person, but the span of six weeks is enough for me to lose the details. Maybe I need a little surgery to keep my memory from leaking out. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 03:01 PM

The other downside of no patch is not being able to say Aaaaarrrggghhhh, Shiver me timbers, Ahoy me hearties, Where's ne grog and other piratical/nautical expressions. Not that they are much used here on the canal as opportunities are few and far between and the only pirates in these here parts are the British Waterways men wresting vast sums in the way of mooring fees from poor boat owners.
Jenny O, you should try typing with your eye, it's the best way to see the letters!!

Ah! I see they've come to take me back to that comfy padded room. The one with no handle on the inside - strange that.