AndyBontheRadio @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

@Olamide good man o

@DevotionalTreasures I like this one before I've even read it!

@davereimer do you have atrial fibrillation?

@davereimer they said I'm 21 years younget than that this would usually begin

@Olamide interesting

@Olamide plan B for the UK Is, apparently, vaccine passports

From what I'm seeing/reading, people are less than likely to comply with more controls on their life

@tanjaostman yes. First time, I tried scratching my skin off.......it was pretty unpleasant.

Spanish doctor said it was pretty common. Gave me tablets, cream and an injection (and it was a shock to have to pay him for his time...something of a cultureshock for this Englishman)

My British doctor, when I got home, had heard of it, thankfully - just means I need to cover, especially, my upper back and shoulders and I've not had a problem since then

@tanjaostman you can keep your beach. I'll have the snow 🙂

I have an allergy to the sun (discovered while in southern Spain, known as the sunny coast......it was suggested I should try and stay out the sun while the various medicine I was given had time to work!)

Lol - Jo bought me a card to cheer me up as I was limited to our room during the day

We had it translated (it was all Spanish) when we got home

It was a picture of a lovely dog, with a rose in its mouth

The words actually said "with sympathy on the death" (didn't trandalte very well)

We still chuckle about it

@tanjaostman looks very pretty with the snow though. Peter would be over the moon with joy if he woke up to that!!

I went on a school exchange in France. And my pen pal's family just happened to live in a home on the Pyrenees. I woke up to more snow than I've ever experienced and it was amazing - we were snowed in, so went mountain biking in the snow, which I still rememmby fondly, 30 years on!

All my school peers were miserable with snow and cold. I was cock a hoop 🙂 and totally in my element

@tanjaostman Manchester (pronounced Manchestoh lol)

A happy place for me - and somewhere you can buy pudding, chips and gravy (suet pastry steak and kidney pie 🙂 and gravy that adds to the experience)

Yes houses aren't kverly well built for the cold

We run out home at 17-18 degrees. Some people have asked for us to put the heating up....it's a healthy Temperature :-) so we suggest a cup of tea, of to keep their coats on lol

@tanjaostman us British have houses designed for mediocre weather... they have to cope with lots of conditions, that are generally mild...

We like cold weather, as a family, but houses over here just aren't designed for lots of very cold weather, or very hot weather either

Morning DingDash family

Sitting in a hotel room - our first night away from our home, for 2 years! Although our reason for being here is all business (not actual business, but this also isnt all pleasure either) a change is as good as a rest !

Am feeling less groggy each morning, and its only day 3 since I started the regiment of pills I'm now on

I do, actually, think I'm beginning to adjust to what they're doing and how they make me feel

I've got another 11 days doing as little as physically possible, and ensuring l do all I can not to raise my heart rate

I also never thought when I saw my grand parents with their pill dispensers trays, that id be looking at getting one, in my mid 40s

But, as my lovely wife keeps reminding me, let's keep hoping this is just temporary as thrbeictors hope it to be - until I can be seen by a specialist for heart arythmia

I'm hoping... anyway, morning family

@sinbach @bethany 🤣

@daniel I'm so sorry for your loss

@daniel ok. Yes, I know that it is now - just didnt recognise the acronym

Yes they are simple to use - I actually got trained by paramedics when they installed one in our village, a few years back

Too expensive for us to buy. But they're everywhere here in the UK now.

We had lots of red phone boxes. When the phones got taken out of many, they just painted many of them bright yellow, added a defibrillator - when you call for an ambulance, they give you the code to get in

Most pubs and churches and shopping centres have them for people to easily access

I was actually hooked up to one when I was in the resuscitation ward. supposedly so they could see my heart function instead of using an ECG

I'm told it could only work with my heart condition, if it was synchronised to my heart rhythm, and shock me at the exact moment between the top half and bottom half my heart beat

Made me wonder how good the basic ones are...I know they're very clever: I have atrial fibrillation

@daniel what is an AED?

Taken my evening meds. Never thought I'd be on so many

Meanwhile, I was contacted by track and trace (who I do NOT have an account with, & who I will not be urgently contacting & downloading the app for) to say I had had a positive PCR test and must self isolate for 10 days

But before I was discharged a nurse told me of that, and asked if I'd had Covid. When he heard I'd had it a month ago, he said to ignore it as PCR tests give false positives for 90 days

So I called the ward back (Holy spirit answer to prayer, as I got stressed about it, & we have a super important journey tomorrow - can't mention where, but is is super important)

He told me to ignore the multuple texts, emails & phone calls as I could NOT have covid; that he'd un-confuse the hospital team responsible on Monday morning when he was back at work

Am grateful to God that I got the same nurse who told me about this exact thing, and just before he finished for the week

God is good

"Go get in with your life" ok then

@tanjaostman guy on the right is Steven Uppal who is the pastor at All Nations in Wolverhampton - a very large Pentecostal church

he's a lovely chap - went to school with him (I led worship in the Christian Union he was running at the time).

He is what he comes across as - an authentic lover of Jesus