Good post and good luck with your recovery. It’s sounds like they took a good chunk out of your leg to make sure they got it all.

I’ve also had some similar but less invasive skin cancer surgery, I’m still waiting for another surgery too, doesn’t sound as bad as yours though as I was able to start back at work after 8 days.

It certainly focuses the mind on what’s important in life and what isn’t doesn’t it.

Thanks Deeege, big or small it's not something I'd recommend to others  I hope your next surgery goes OK and with a brief recovery time. I'm finding out tomorrow about the biopsy and if I need anything else to follow on from the surgery. I thought my op would be a similar recovery time, naive thinking on my count there! Still, I've missed the cr4ppy weather hopefully and made myself have a good think about priorities. And last year was the last time I go out in the sun without factor 50 slapped on everywhere 

Quote from: The Jester of Wibbly on January 24, 2026, 09:35:50 am

So what's your Karens been up to lately.

I hate those who take to social media slating these 'pole thingies' and is looking for traditional cleans'.  Probably has no idea or no experience in the system, or has a cheap charlie with poor equipment and method.

What's your Karen hate?

Mine have been pretty much weeded out and as I am also pretty much not taking on new customers I hope not to encounter any more Karens.

But I am also aware of the old adage that occasionally a good customer can turn bad (but that a bad customer never turns good).

I agree with this mostly…. However…….. I have got a few customers that were a pain, bad attitude, slow payers etc.

I dropped them, and then when they couldn’t get anyone else to meet their demands either, they then came back on the books and have been good as gold ever since.

Nowt queer as folk as they say. 😅

So what's your Karens been up to lately.

I hate those who take to social media slating these 'pole thingies' and is looking for traditional cleans'.  Probably has no idea or no experience in the system, or has a cheap charlie with poor equipment and method.

What's your Karen hate?

My version of the story was at the age of 45.
I had a heart attack whilst I was in hospital. A customer ring the wife where is he? My windows need cleaning urgently can he come round to clean my windows?
No, he’s in hospital. Oh,
he’s had a serious  heart attack and is in intensive care
Not even a decency of wishing me well or get well soon as most decent folk who would
She said  who’s gonna clean my windows?
Outrageous ..
Swore and slammed  the phone down on the wife
Shocked she told me after I came back from the hospital
Compared to the twenty or so cards and flowers and many phone calls urging me to get well and come back to work when your ready 

I have a theory about the episode
The week before I cleaned a shop sign that was covered in pidgins poop
And breathed some in never going to prove it but there you are you never know what’s round the corner

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Quote from: dd on January 23, 2026, 02:53:17 pm

Where are you going in Canada?

Our lad lives on Vancouver Island so we default to Victoria, then in-laws in Kelowna. It's all a scouting operation for The Great Escape....

How long has your son lived there? Do you see him much? My son went off to Australia a year ago. He loves it. We get the odd WhatsApp face to face. I don't like being so far from him tbh. I don't think he'll come back so it's up to us to visit him which will get harder and harder. I think after we do visit it will be really hard to leave him. I'll be in bits.

He's been there 8 years this year. The first year was just like he was still at Uni, just with no quick laundry trips home.  We saw him 2018 and 2019, then Covid hit, and with the restrictions it wasn't worth the risk of going then having to spend the time there isolating if someone on the plane tested positive. That was hard, especially with people complaining that they hadn't seen their family for days or weeks  - meaning only through the window, or they had a chat or cup of tea outside with them. Then I'd say I hadn't seen our lad for 18 months, which was usually followed with "yeah, but you can facetime with him" before returning to how tough they'd had it blah blah blah. If you haven't lived with your child that far away then it's difficult to comprehend the wrench and ache of separation. Missing big life events is difficult, missing family parties likewise - watching everyone be with their kids and grandkids just reminds you what your missing.

Anyway, he has a great fiance, with a great family that welcomed our lad from the off and in turn have welcomed us. That makes it easier knowing he has a second family over there. We get over there every year if possible, or they come to us. It's a 24 hour travel day, allowing for connections and hanging around airports. I expect it be closer to 36 to get to Oz, which certainly takes it out of you.

It's difficult and can get you down, especially as we only have him, but the thought of him missing the opportunity he has given himself just to make us happy by staying here... well, its a no brainer. Its only temporary and gives us something to aim for, he ain't gettin away from us that easy