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BS: Good luck, Mingulay

01 Oct 05 - 05:11 AM (#1573227)
Subject: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Zany Mouse

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


01 Oct 05 - 05:44 AM (#1573244)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Georgiansilver

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


01 Oct 05 - 05:54 AM (#1573245)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: gnu

Best wishes.


01 Oct 05 - 08:19 AM (#1573317)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: jacqui.c

Good luck lad - hope all goes well.


01 Oct 05 - 01:16 PM (#1573494)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO

Sending you good vibes from Oz, Mingulay!

Jenny


01 Oct 05 - 03:32 PM (#1573594)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: fat B****rd

All the best, Mingulay.


01 Oct 05 - 05:21 PM (#1573648)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Leadfingers

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 !


01 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM (#1573659)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Skipjack K8

Fare well, fellow matelot.


02 Oct 05 - 04:32 PM (#1574249)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Zorg

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


02 Oct 05 - 08:55 PM (#1574391)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Peace

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


04 Oct 05 - 10:41 AM (#1575496)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay

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


04 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM (#1575500)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: SINSULL

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


04 Oct 05 - 10:54 AM (#1575504)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: jeffp

Glad it went well.


04 Oct 05 - 11:00 AM (#1575507)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Leadfingers

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 !


05 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM (#1576467)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Stilly River Sage

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

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

SRS


05 Oct 05 - 11:31 AM (#1576505)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO

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


05 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM (#1576762)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay

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


06 Oct 05 - 11:04 AM (#1577074)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: JennyO

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...)


06 Oct 05 - 01:39 PM (#1577261)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Stilly River Sage

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


06 Oct 05 - 03:01 PM (#1577327)
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck, Mingulay
From: Mingulay

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.