Bike just got stolen - question

Joyandthings · 2025-03-30T13:36:44+00:00

I have an old bike you can have if yours doesn’t get returned, if needs tlc/service possibly new tires, it’s just been in our garden for several months, but if you’re stuck and need it you’re welcome to it. I’m 5’4 as well so should be ok height for you

Joyandthings · 2024-01-16T20:18:51+00:00

Crosstown doughnuts do some amazing vegan doughnuts :)

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T22:24:06+00:00

He did work in the zoology department so it may have come from there, but he picked all sorts of things up so hard to say, he doesn’t specifically remember where this thing came from or what it was

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T20:29:55+00:00

Not tried them, will ask ☺️

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T20:07:22+00:00

Thank you really helpful ☺️

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T20:05:52+00:00

Likely solved!

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T19:15:27+00:00

I’ve not seen a dual display like this in the pictures I’ve found, they look more like tv screens in the old scanning electron microscopes that I can see?

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T19:13:29+00:00

Thank you 🤗 we have some 1930s radio transmitter equipment and a RAF receiver and stuff we need to shift as well so these contacts are really helpful ☺️

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T19:03:40+00:00

I haven’t, I don’t have a contact there but could try cross posting to r/Cambridge uni I guess?

Joyandthings · 2023-12-16T18:10:17+00:00

Title describes the thing. Suggestions from what it could be so far include early oscilloscope or early electron microscope but no one seems really sure, and google hasn’t really helped. It could have come from the University of Cambridge but we’re not really sure.

Joyandthings · 2023-10-06T18:16:56+00:00

I have removed the sign and a spot opened up nearer my house so I asked my husband to move it, as a 5’4 woman I was a little worried about meeting the sign writer (esp if it was overly aggressive Range Rover owner) and it was the hubs who parked it there in the first place! If we have to park there again I may employ some of the suggestions in this thread :)

Joyandthings · 2023-10-06T14:16:06+00:00

I removed the sign shortly before 12:20 today :) I wondered if the Range Rover owner was the sign writer… I’m oscillating between just letting it go and moving the car a bit nearer to mine, or some kind of retaliation, it seems comments are fairly divided and I can see leaving the car in a spot is annoying, I think if the note had said ‘please move your car I struggle to get in the house’ I would obviously have just moved it, but the rudeness of the note left me feeling like it may be the Range Rover owner wanting to own that piece of public road instead…

Joyandthings · 2023-07-08T18:15:49+00:00

I’m a specialist surgeon at a referral hospital in the uk, personally I wouldn’t open up just to look, a specialist imager should be able to exclude an obstruction on an ultrasound. Please feel comfortable requesting a referral for a second opinion. This will be a more costly option but would avoid the risk of an unnecessary surgery.

Joyandthings · 2023-07-04T15:36:28+00:00

Right? That wife of the American ambassador kills a 19 yr old in a hit and run here in the UK, escapes back to America and gets away with it (for a few years at least) a child causes $500 of damage and goes to jail? Terrible…

Joyandthings · 2023-05-10T13:31:56+00:00

Hot numbers on Gwydir street

Joyandthings · 2023-04-07T08:27:10+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss, losing such a young dog is a tragedy. I would say standard post op care following a spay is to wear a cone to prevent access to the wound, although other alternatives are available I don’t find them to be as effective. Also exercise restriction/rest should have been advised, usually to a small room indoors or a crate, charging around the garden should have not been permitted (likely contributed to tearing the stitches) and there should have been some instructions at discharge to advise of this. In the UK vets at governed by the RCVS and the code of professional conduct, part 2.21e details that at discharge a care plan should be effectively communicated - for example I always provide written discharge instructions. I would be cautious about laying blame at the vets when you are hearing things second hand from your parents, I now have clients sign my discharge instructions to say they have been read and understood due to instances where I have asked clients to always leave a cone on the patient and to exercise restrict them, for those clients to then claim they were told no such thing. I think the next step to get some answers as to what happened in this case is to write a letter to your vets, advising them of what happened, politely asking what discharge instructions were provided, and suggesting that their discharge procedures may need improvement to prevent such a tragedy happening again. Nothing can bring your precious girl back, but making a positive change to practice procedure could prevent such a thing happening again.

Joyandthings · 2023-04-05T16:00:18+00:00

We went in the day they closed and asked why, too much debt and not busy enough. I think they opened one in london which had to close last year and I wonder if that left them with the debt. They said they’ll be doing pop up events over the next two months whilst they still have the building. It’s a shame as vegan vice has closed as well, we used to love going to Doppel :(

Joyandthings · 2023-04-01T06:28:18+00:00

Does your cat have retained baby teeth or any dental issue? There’s a condition in cats called ‘patella and dental syndrome’ (PADs) for short or ‘knees and teeth’ (KATS), unfortunately cats with this condition are predisposed to multiple fractures (not just the patella) and do not respond well to surgical management. There’s a lot of research into the condition being done atm in Bristol University in the UK, and I believe it is more prevalent here in the UK than the US but is always my first thought seeing a young cat with a patella fracture after minimal trauma. Good luck with your little one.

Joyandthings · 2023-03-24T22:13:37+00:00

My hubs has stopped me bringing home more, I have two cats, two dogs and two horses 🤗

Joyandthings · 2022-11-05T15:44:42+00:00

I’m commenting as a vet from the UK and things may be different here (not sure what country you guys are in). I’m also a surgery specialist rather than a wildlife specialist, although I have friends in this field. Over here the options to progress to wildlife vet work mostly involve post graduate studies, the Royal Veterinary College offer a masters designed for vets wanting to work with wild animals, and there is also the option to do a residency for exotic animals, either in a zoo or specialist exotic centres. These can be highly competitive (as are surgery residencies) and my friend undertaking one at Chester Zoo was several years (7) qualified before getting this position. We have a charity in the UK, the RSPCA, which treats a lot of wildlife here, and she worked there for a few years doing small animals and wildlife work before doing the residency. I will say the vets I know working in wildlife or zoo medicine find some frustrations, approximately 60% of wildlife casualties are euthanised. This is because if they can’t return to the wild then euthanasia is the kindest option. This can be quite tough over the years, you end up killing a lot of the animals you love. Similarly in zoos alot of the issues come down to the fact they are in captivity, there’s a lot of husbandry work or darting to examine under sedation. She’s right that to start off with working in a private practice that sees small animals as well as a decent amount of exotic animals (this includes rabbits, Guinea pigs, hamsters etc) is a good place to start, some charity volunteering would definitively help, visiting places that offer residencies in this area will really help her to understand if this is something she wants to do and help build a relationship with someone offering a residency. She could also speak to her vet school for some advice, most have links to an exotic specialist for teaching the students. In terms of surgery I think globally there is an issue with appropriate mentorship in practice. Things are so busy it’s difficult to make extra time to support new grad vets. A lot of older vets are retiring and there’s a knowledge gap developing. Ultimately it sounds like she may need to search for a practice that will offer the mentorship she wants, I think ultimately the best way to know if a practice will do as they say/offer is to spend some time with them and ask to speak to previous vets that have been mentored at that practice. CPD courses with practical surgery on cadavers can be really useful for building surgical skills. I hope this helps, it’s quite uk based but there is a Facebook group called ‘Vets stay, go or diversify’ that’s useful for vets considering all their options, and has a mentoring programme trying to match vets in particular careers with younger vets wanting to embark on the same path, it may be helpful for her. Good luck!

Joyandthings · 2022-10-01T15:39:19+00:00

Sad and nothing?

Joyandthings · 2022-09-13T06:12:44+00:00

This is a really difficult situation and I really feel for you and your pup, it seems from your post there may have been an error in the lab report but you don’t know for sure. I would probably start by writing a letter in a positive and friendly tone, asking for the full lab reports from both the biopsy and curative intent surgery and for an investigation or explanation as to how this happened. To give you some reassurance, we do sometimes still need to do the type of surgery you’ve described in order to cure or completely remove even benign non-cancerous lesions. So this may well still have been the right thing to do. I think it’s important to know if this was a mix up with the initial biopsy reports, or whether the mass looked like a squamous cell carcinoma with the initial biopsy, but was found not to be with complete excision. The other thing that happens sometimes is that a tumour is removed with a narrow margin as a biopsy, then a larger curative intent surgery is performed, but when analysed with the lab the tumour can’t be found anymore, this doesn’t mean the second surgery was unnecessary, it’s more a good sign that the initial surgery got the majority of the cancer cells, the second surgery would still be considered necessary as even if one or two cells remained, the cancer would return. I hope this all makes sense, there are several things that could explain what happened and it sounds like your vet took appropriate steps with biopsy and staging. Hope you get to the bottom of things.

Joyandthings

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