Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

Manchester, England • Age 75

Joined myLot 18 years ago

I do not think * Therefore I am not

Koalemos's Discussions

Not entirely the result that I was hoping for

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 6 Feb 18

After 7 or 8 months of scans, X-rays, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, I had an appointment with the oncologist today to discuss the progress so far. I was expecting a favourable result and the reduction of appointments to a...

cancer

bones

pain

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36 people

Got my gate bolt fixed at last

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 26 Jan 18

A few months ago I had a new fence built to separate the front and rear gardens. However, it did not take long for the bolt to become damaged, thus making it impossible to keep closed. Despite being a very simple job, I am unable...

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24 people

I am beginning to really hate android

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 12 Jan 18

About 4 pr 5 years ago I bought a Nexus 7 tablet running android. The tablet is easy to operate, but I have no in depth understanding of android. Yesterday my lack of android knowledge became a major problem. The Nexus 7 tablet...

android

tablet

ubuntu

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22 people

Time for Xenial Xerus

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 9 Jan 18

This rather bizarre sounding name is the title given to the latest release of Ubuntu operating system. Each new version has been given a name along with the version release number. Having recently formatted my desktop computer and...

xenial xerus

ubuntu

linux

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10 people

Demoted to my laptop again

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 7 Jan 18

In days gone by I could perform a complete reinstall and load programs in a fairly short period of time, although that has changed vastly over the years. Now that I am using Windows 10 it takes longer and also utilises a greater...

windows

compiter

reinstall

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21 people

Fed up with false homeless people

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 5 Jan 18

Wherever I go there is always a great deal of people begging for money and claiming to be homeless. I know for a fact that the majority of them are not homeless and this really annoys me. I can fully understand a genuinely...

begging

homeless

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26 people

Confused by a Mylot notification

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 3 Jan 18

As we all know, when someone mentions us on Mylot or responds, comments etcetera we receive a notification. Clicking on the link takes us directly to the relevant comment or response, making the system very easy to...

notification

username

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28 people

A Happy New Year Limerick

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 31 Dec 17

Once again New Year has arrived And Auld Lang Syne is revived There is no way to know What next year will bestow Of such knowledge we are deprived At midnight a new year descends As the present one finally ends I have one thing...

happy new year

limerick

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23 people

The BBC gets it right at last

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 26 Dec 17

Occasionally operas are transmitted on British television, which suits me because I do like opera. However, I do have a pet hate concerning the actual timing. For most of the year it would not matter, but during periods such as...

television

opera

seasonal

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13 people

What a pointless telephone call

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 13 Dec 17

Like most people I receive my share of unsolicited telephone calls. These days the majority are questionnaires, which I never agree to and always answer “No” then immediately hang up the telephone. Today I received the most...

telephone

brexit

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25 people

Who sent all that snow over here?

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 10 Dec 17

For the past week several members have been posting about heavy snowfalls. This did not matter to me because it seems a long while since we had any real snow over here, which suits me fine. However, someone appears to have got...

snow

blizzard

weather

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44 people

Imaginary Doctor’s appointment

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 7 Dec 17

Yesterday I received a text message from my Doctor’s surgery reminding me about my appointment tomorrow at 11-45 AM. It seemed strange because I have no prior knowledge of any appointment. Naturally I telephoned the surgery to ask...

surgery

text message

appointment

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24 people

Odd restriction on payment options

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 5 Dec 17

My experience has usually been that companies will offer a variety of payment options in order to get your cash. My home insurance is due to expire this month and rather than simply renew I considered changing my insurer. Earlier...

insurance

payment

debit card

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26 people

The Christmas stamps are in the safe

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 19 Nov 17

As usual the Royal Mail has issued a series of Christmas postage stamps this year. I have a few Christmas cards to main overseas, so I decided to purchase the Christmas issue stamps for this purpose. I was aware that they were...

postage stamps

christmas

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22 people

My first day of radiotherapy

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 14 Nov 17

Today proved to be rather interesting. It began with being invited into a cubicle where the nurse explained in detail what would happen during the treatment. This seemed a little superfluous since I had previously been told what...

christie

radiotherapy

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31 people

I now have a mask

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 8 Nov 17

No, I have not finally taken the advice to wear a mask for the protection of the public, this is a mask designed for my forthcoming radiotherapy treatment. As part of my appointment at Oldham hospital today, they warmed a plastic...

radiotherapy

mask

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23 people

Radiotherapy is next on the agenda

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 2 Nov 17

I recently posted that I was being referred to a radiotherapy specialist to decide on future treatment. Earlier this week I had a telephone call asking me to attend Royal Oldham Hospital for an appointment, which was scheduled for...

radiotherapy

lungs

brain

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27 people

Microsoft Update does it again

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 28 Oct 17

Earlier today I ran Windows Update and installed the update provided. Everything seemed fine until I opened Microsoft Outlook. Every attempted action resulted in a small dialogue box displaying “The operation failed”. A quick...

windows 10

microsoft outlook

update

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12 people

Good news, but not complete

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 23 Oct 17

Christie hospital lived up to their reputation today by making me wait as usual. I arrived at 1-45 PM and gave a blood sample at 2-15 PM, quite good so far. Of course I then had to wait until shortly after 5 PM to see the...

radiotherapy

appointment

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20 people

A pleasant surprise in the mail today

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 17 Oct 17

Over recent years I have managed to travel quite regularly, both here in the United Kingdom and overseas. This provided me with the opportunity to find postcards in many places last year, which I sent to a few friends here at...

postcard

alaska

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36 people