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Only applies to over 65s without long term stable disability like cerebral palsy. I don't hit that age yet but reckon a score of 3 isn't...

Two glasses are always better than one ,Giles

When I had a procedure under general anaesthetic two years ago I was graded "Clinical frailty scale: 3"! 3/5 or 3/10? - I wasn't told...

'better pred than dead' and 'everything needs a course of steroids before it dies' are two old semi-humourous maxims from my sector...

My GP put me on butec 10 patches after various treatments along the way for arthritis. He's ok with me taking a couple of paracetamol...

Wonderful to realise that Amari is 83 - gives me another 10 years!! I have been a type 1 insulin dependant diabetic now for 55 years...

As a retired medic: caution is needed with both those age-old 'non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents'. They can cause stomach...

I am coming up to 80, and do find things getting a bit heavy, with the top brood box weighing up to 60 pounds, it's OK moving across...

Yes, that's what I thought until I read the caption.

Yes, I'd dearly love to have an extraction room. Sequential extracting in our fairly small kitchen is not a recipe for domestic...

There are other threads on this subject. 'Search' for 'heavy supers'.

Guardian yesterday had this pic of V. crabro with remarkably yellow upper legs. Obviously to us cognoscenti it is not an Asian hornet...

No wasps in either of my apiaries nor in our garden 400m distant. One V. crabro hawking around a hive entrance today, captured a bee on...

Should be OK in my experience. Belt and braces, you could consider both the newspaper and spraying both colonies with a scented...

Oo, haven't tried that. I'm finding benzaldehyde useful.