Bellstar

The joseph glover (The Mill) is being demolished as we speak :mad: What a shame. It was a landmark. Everyone knew the Mill. They are building flats on the land i believe. So sad.

Hi everyone, Its now nearly three months since i stopped smoking, nearly anyway! this past week has been a struggle for me, I'm afraid i have had the occasional cigarette over the easter break. I am now on the 7mg patches, but i think i will have another week on the 14 mg patches, as i need to get back on track. I hope everyone else out there is doing well. Hugs bell xx

Hi guys thanks for coming to my thread. A year seems a long time down the road spinynorman but i'm determined. The biggest battle i thaught i would face was coming on the computer, because i would smoke so many cigs while on here, but ive found ive been ok. I still think ok i will have a cig now and then remember, no you dont anymore. and the thaught has gone.

Good morning all, I thaught i would start this thread for anyone who has decided to stop smoking using the Niquitin patches. I have seen the thread using the tablets, but you cant get advice or user experience of the product if you arn't using the same product, cos they may have different side affects, so i thaught i would start my own thread seeing as i am using the Niquitin patches. well done to everyone whatever they are using to stop:D I stopped smoking on the 26th January 2010 at 11.00am, one month less three quarters of an hour ago. I put the first patch on and am still going strong.I have been a smoker since i was 15 years old and now i am 56. I still feel like iv'e lost my best mate at times but glad i have stopped. Iv'e had a couple of glitches but nothing major. If any of you good people out there need some support, a chat :)or a rant :rant:while you are on the journey to giving up, like i do. Then please come and talk to me and anyone else who is on our journey. One thing i ask is that no one comes here to put down or ridicule smokers. I have a passion against that practice. The two things i hated most was a smoker who had given up, telling me how bad it is for you and that i must stop, or someone who has never smoked in their life telling me how i was ruining their life by my smoking. I stopped smoking for me. I chose the time, and now i am on my journey. Come and join me and we can help eachother.

Wow what a great photo DIDO, thanks for posting it xxx

Thanks mike xx

Hi gracie, I used to love the ride to the hospital especially if it was a hot summers day, we lived on the stradbroke estate then and it was a full days outing. I remember dreading the end of my parents visiting time too

Hi mike and thanks for replying, Yes your dad was a formidable man and everyone was in awe of his wonderful gift as a surgeon. I can imagine how difficult it was for you to show your own skills under the shadow of your dad. The work you are doing now is so important and i wish we could find a cure for all cancers. It made me smile when you wrote about the "blank Check" I bet your dad had great pleasure spending the money lol.

Ive found this site which shows the former King Edwards Hospital and now as converted apartments, but im afraid it doesnt state when it closed as a hospital. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151252. Perhaps mike will know?

Hi mike, It's an honour to meet you. You must have been so proud of your dad, he was a great surgeon. Did you follow in his footsteps? I have three daughters and a son and i would have dearly loved one of my kids to have gone into the medical profession but they all find it far too squeemish lol. Your dad gave his all to his patients, and would never tolorate anything but the best from anyone.

Hi silly, I will be sure to ask him if he remembers you all. I was about 18 months old when we moved to stradbroke, mum had a prefab before that and always wanted a brick house, I think she said it was a fairly new estate then. Have you googled to see if there is any info about the stradbroke estate?

Hi silly, yes he was a very good swimmer and i think he swam for the school. I was only little then as he is 9 years older than me. I remember mum telling me he was swimming for the school one time and parents were invited but he had never told her that he could dive, and he nearly gave her a heart attack when he dove off the top board lol. I could never do that, I can't even dive off the side of the baths it scares me to death. He is still a pain in the butt big brother but i love him lol, and looking forward to his 65th birthday in november this year.

Hi Gill and Tosh, Hope you are both ok, Im franks (Toni's) wife arlene, we have been married now for nearly 16 years, would be great if we could keep in touch. PM me Gill. xx

My step daughter Lisa Turton has asked me to start this thread for her, she wants to know if there is any one who remembers her from Norfork School between 1984 -1991. She would love to hear from you. She says Some of her teachers were. Mrs Stanley MrHaigh Mr Pile. Thanks Bell xx

Does anyone know where I can get a Christmas Cutlery set? we have looked everywhere, I would like a set with father christmas handles or handles with something christmassy on them. Thanks Bell xx

Hi Gill, Your dad vic and the grinder frank turton that worked there are cousins lol. Nice to meet you love. Vic will probably remember my frank as toni, there are so many franks in the family that they all used their middle names. My frank worked with his dad frank (jack) from leaving school.

Your welcome xxxx

Wel said hun xxx

Ok, a new day. The general hostile attitude towards smokers is what gets me riled. If there was a designated area for smokers outside and away from the entrances, there would not be a problem and smokers would not be stood at the entrance to the hospital getting in the way and annoying non smokers. They have managed to do it for pubs and work places, why not hospitals. It could be just a shelter well away from the hospital building, and non smokers would not have to go anywhere near it if they didnt want too. No one ever wants to visit or be a patient at a hospital if they can possibly avoid it, It's a stressful time for all concerned, and to deny somone who is a smoker a cigarette, at the most stressful time in their lives is wrong. Ok visitors to the hospital could wait until they are away from the hospital grounds, but patients who have no choice but to be there should have somewhere to go if they want. I admit that it does look awful when someone in their PJ's and slippers and a drip in their arm are sat outside smoking, but im afraid like i said before the dogooders have caused this situation themselves Give them a designated area and they won't be stood blocking the gateways and entrances. The attitude towards smoking from non smokers will never be resolved, and there will be hostilities on both sides. There will always be people with bad attitudes in this world, smokers and non smokers, catch them at the wrong moment in their lives and you will get pounced on especially if you are telling them to do something they don't want to do at that particular moment, but having said that most people will do what you ask, if asked in the proper manner. We all try as best we can to accommodate each other to make this a happy life for everybody, whatever someone does, it's going to annoy someone else at some point and we all have different view points on things. It's the way people approach a situation and their attitude towards it that shows the result you want. So when you start a thread that is bound to be heated on both sides of the fence, (because we all have our own thaughts and attitudes towards the subject) expect a little flack back, and don't expect everyone on the forum to agree or be nice and give you a solution to the problem because at the moment there isn't one on this subject, apart from a little understanding and tolerance from smokers and non smokers.

What annoys me more than anything about your statement is that you are generalising all smokers, not all smokers ignore the rules. Most smokers follow the rules that have been enforced on us. There are some what will always break the rules no matter what the sign says or what peoples opinions of them are, thats life. I personally would not smoke anywhere that i have been asked not too. If you don't want people to argue the point with you and disagree with you, then you should'nt make such stupid statements like "Walking across the road", why should they just because non smokers think they are better people than smokers. There would probably be someone on the opposite side of the road who would object too, call it sarcasm whatever you like. Im sure these people don't get in the way on purpose, and if you asked them nicely they would move aside for you.

It might be a good idea if the smokers, who simply must smoke, did cross the road themselves, to somewhere less likely to bother others or cause congestion; did their mothers never tell them it is rude to stand in doorways. Yes we did have a place to go, designated smoking area's, Smoke rooms. Out of the way of non smokes. But no the do gooders got their way and got rid of them, now unfortunatly for you we have to join the general public, you caused it you put up with it.

Oh i would get off my high horse if people like you would let me live my life as i choose fit, and i will let you live yours as you see fit. As for saying that drink does not harm other peoples lives, The cases of abuse due to drink, especially in the A @ E, Where staff have to endure drunks on a daily basis because they dont know when to call it a day. Men who come home from the pub after a skinfull and beat their wives and kids to a pulp, and tell that to someones relative who's family member has been run down by a drunk driver. these people may never have had a fag in their lives, but they can ruin a persons life much more than breathing in someone elses fag smoke. Just because you feel that smokers have been unjustly 'picked on', you would close down a major industry, ruin the economy, close the tourist industry put more than a million and a half people out of work! By the way, many smokers also like a drink. Why do you think that so many Pubs and Clubs are closing !! Smokers used to like a drink in their local pub, where they could sit down and relax with a drink and a fag and good conversation, now people have go outside, they would rather go to the local supermarket, get a dvd and a few pints and stay at home in the comfort of their own homes. Plus their is more likelyhood of fights breaking out outside the pubs because their is no supervision from the pub owners who are inside while everyone is outside the pub. It might be a good idea if the smokers, who simply must smoke, did cross the road themselves, to somewhere less likely to bother others or cause congestion; did their mothers never tell them it is rude to stand in doorways. What shall we have then a no smoking side of the road and a smoking side. You see where does the discrimination end ?(and that is exactly what it is).

Well you see thats what happens! when it suits a non smoker to be objective thats ok, but when they don't want to be left out of fun and conversation they will follow the smoker anywhere rather than be the odd one out.

Well isn't that the point of this thread? People trying to tell other people how to live their lives just so that it won't upset their little world. Leave me to lead my life the way i choose and you get on with yours! Thats the non smokers choice don't you think? we are made to go outside they don't have to follow us for their breaks now do they!!

Thirty odd years ago there were smoke rooms on every ward, If you smoked you went in them if you didnt then you stayed out, everyone was happy. Sorry but its the do gooders in this world who have created this problem with smokers stood outside hospital doorways and on the street, Im sure the do gooders live perfect lives themselves, It's time they got over themselves and leave people alone to live their own lives. It makes me smile because at my work our boss has had a shelter made for smokers to go into so that we are not smoking in the staff room because of the new laws. Guess what even the non smokers come out to the "Smoke shelter" because they would rather have our company than sit alone in the staff room with no one to talk too. Yes their are more smokers than non smokers at my work. I bet the do gooders go home and have a nice drink of wine or whatever drink they fancy at the end of the day to relieve stress. Lets get a law against that, shut all the pubs and ban alcohol. Make the filthy drinker suffer, no i don't drink very often so it really wouldnt bother me at all, but take something away from someone that does and there are bound to be irrate people telling the do gooders to get on their bike and go bother someone else. Why should someone care about a complete stranger having a fag, it's none of your business, it's their life. If you dont like it then cross the road, its the do gooders fault in the first place that they have to walk past someone with a fag in one hand and a drip in the other stood on the street outside the hospitals, at least years ago we could go into our little smoke rooms and didnt even have to set eyes on the oh so disapproving ones, and they could go about their little perfect lives unhindered by us filthy smokers. Every smoker in the world knows its bad for them to smoke and they may end up with a deadly disease, so may non smokers who have never smoked in their lives, but of course it will be blamed on the smoker anyway because of passive smoking, wasnt their fault. Both my parents died of cancer, both none smoking related, but they both smoked at some time in their lives would you have refused them treatment aswell, just because they used to smoke? My relative at the moment is dying of testicular cancer, he smokes and he drinks, but his lungs and kidneys and liver are perfectly fine, would you do gooders refuse him treatment? and leave him in pain because he smokes? Get off your high horse and get on with your own lives and leave other people to their own.