rbortega wrote:
Do you count Wings' albums as part of Paul McCartney's solo discography or should they be considered separate from his solo work?
I consider anything he did 1970 and on as solo. In other words, not as a Beatle. But a subset of that is Wings from 1971 to 1980. He was always the "star
@njr Jeopardy 10/18/22
Faith Hope & Charity for $400 (they showed a photo of the new building)
This Christian Army has re-opened Liverpool’s Strawberry Field, a home for children in John Lennon’s time.
What is the Salvation Army?
(a woman got it right)
DOUBLE trouble - Elvis Presley
(oobu, you missed my Skyfall post) 
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lucy in the SKY with diamonds - The Beatles
@b-j-conlee said in Paul McCartney- New Album for 2023:
@njr
Hey Nancy. I understand totally about your frustration. In my father's last couple of years, he had dimentia real bad. I brought my Dad down from New Jersey to Florida where his Sister lived. I wanted to retire anyway and my Father could no longer take the winters up North so we moved. Anyway, the first couple of years it was very frustrating. We would drive at the end of the year from New Jersey to Florida (a long 2 Day drive). After a couple of days he would go into his sister's house (only 3 houses down from our house) and tell my aunt (his sister) that he was leaving to go home because he wanted to go to my Mom's grave site in NJ. One year he left in our car and preceded to get lost. Fortunately for me, he only got to the next town. Talk about being frustrating. It was all about his dimentia. He couldn't understand that he wanted to go back home and that it was already Winter which is why we moved in the first place.My Father lived to 90 and in retrospect, it was good
we moved. On the whole he had a good few years down in Florida. Now when I look back I should have had more patience with him. The dimentia he had did cause a few headaches for me but still l should of had more patience. My Daughter reminds me how good he was (and my Mother) were to her. My Mom and Father were not only great parents but great grandparents too. These days I miss both of them so much. How lucky my sister and I were. I realize that especially when I hear stories from friends about their parents. We were so lucky!
I brought my dad down from Ohio in June 2013 to Assisted Living because he had broken his hip, still needed vsome rehab and needed someone to give him all of his many pills (he’d never been on a jet plane before and he was 87! His mind was sharp as a tack until the end (Jan. 6, 2016 at just shy of 90) His body just gave out with COPD, mitral valve regurgitation and kidney failure. My mom is 92 and takes meds for high B/P and high cholesterol, but other than being pre-diabetic, she is physically okay, it’s just the dementia that got so bad over the last year or so. It actually began with little bits of short-term memory loss in 2018. Rather than have to move her twice (once to Assisted Living & again to a nursing home which is next door to it) I’m trying to keep her where she is. They feed them 3 meals plus snacks, coffee, tea, ice cream, etc. between meals and do their housekeeping. She is still able to do her own laundry, but if need be, I could do that. They have an on-site company that gives her her 7:45am meds and tells her to go eat breakfast. She’s always up real early and can shower & dress herself. It costs $9/day but is cheaper than moving her to A.L. Besides the hassle plus renting a truck, the monthly cost would be $4130 as opposed to the $3365 she pays now. In about a year, her savings will run out and if I can get a letter from her PCP or neurologist, she could go to the nursing home and get on Medicaid. She would give the facility her Social Security and tiny pension each month and Medicaid would pay whatever they decide to pay. I would have to “just” pay the first month which right now is $8400!
Bound to increase in one year!
Oh, and she has to take pills 2 other times during the day and we finally got the battery powered pill dispenser (they sent a 2nd one) to work (rotate) properly! It’s been since Mar. 6th we’ve been pulling our hair out over this thing. I still call her at 12:10pm to remind her to go eat lunch, at 5pm for her 5:05 pills and go to dinner and at 7:30pm for her evening pills. She goes to bed super early, like 8 or 8:30.
I guess I rambled on enough! I definitely need more patience too, but sadly it is not one if my virtues! It’s a constant struggle.
@yankeefan2 said in Paul McCartney- New Album for 2023:
No problem, understood. Hang in there !!
Thanks so much!
@littlewillow said in The Paul McCartney Picture Thread:
@njr said in The Paul McCartney Picture Thread:
Yeah, no way I’m watching you at 6am! Even I’M asleep then. If you were there at 5pm I might be awake to see you!
P.S. 5 hour time difference from EDT, 6 hours from CDT, and 7 hours behind you from PDT. so would be 4am in California. 5am for Kansas City, MO or Nashville, TN for example. (at 11am London time)@NJR Everyone would have to be in the same time zone for this to work.
Not sure if everyone agrees.
No they don’t! Wandy just needs to pick a later time than 11am so those of us in the U.S. are not asleep!
@wandy said in The Paul McCartney Picture Thread:
@littlewillow said in The Paul McCartney Picture Thread:
@wandy said in The Paul McCartney Picture Thread:
Lilwillow. If I arrange here in Maccaboard ( at a specified pre arranged time) that I will wave to the Abbey Road webcam, you can be ready at that time to watch out for my wave. I hsve done this before and it worked. Then you can post here if you saw me ( or not) Kapeesh? Or another way would be, I go to the Beatles coffee shop, when I get there at, say, 10.am. I will post here on Maccaboard that I will wave to the Abbey Road webcam at 11.am. London time. You can be ready, to watch if you want to, and hopefully see me waving to you. I did this once before, and it did work.
@wandy Well, I think I'm starting to understand a bit. There are just a few things I don't understand. Are you going to post a video on Maccaboard? Or...🤯 I just lost my neurons. Please. Help
Lilwillow you are funny
I don't need to post a video, it will all be done "live". No recording. You just Google "Abbey Road webcam", and up it comes. You don't even need to be in Maccaboard at the time. Anybody on Maccaboard can do it. Problem is most of the members are in America, and ( I think) there is a 5 hour time difference, so at 11.am London time, it will be 6.am USA time, so I can't see Anybody from the USA tuning in. But you live in France, and I think you are one hour ahead? 12 noon for you?
Yeah, no way I’m watching you at 6am! Even I’M asleep then. If you were there at 5pm I might be awake to see you! 
P.S. 5 hour time difference from EDT, 6 hours from CDT, and 7 hours behind you from PDT. so would be 4am in California. 5am for Kansas City, MO or Nashville, TN for example. (at 11am London time)
@wandy said in Sunny Heights:
@njr said in Sunny Heights:
@wandy said in Sunny Heights:
@littlewillow said in Sunny Heights:
@wandy said in Sunny Heights:
I quite agree, but I guess not everyone is a Beatles fan️
@wandy That is true.
The same thing happened to Ringo's Tittenhurst Park Estate. He sold it to an Arab guy called, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, he had no idea about Britain's Listed Buildings laws. These buildings are protected by law/government, and musnt be altered without permission from the authorities. The sultan changed a heck of a lot of stuff there. He got onto trouble with the local council, but it was too late, the damage had already been done. I have often wondered what would have happened if the Beatles had been allowed to keep their mural on the front of the Apple Boutique in Baker Street. I believe now it too would be protected by the government. Oh well
You’re quite right (slick) Look at the mural that was painted on the Empress Pub by Ringo’s old Liverpool home. That wouldn’t have been tolerated in the ‘60s!
Agreed! Problem was ( imho) back in the 1960s, the London councils would have consisted of ( mostly) men who had fought in the second world war, and these "old" men now in their 40s, which would definitely seem old to the Beatles, did not risk their lives fighting in a war so long Haired hippy jumped up unimportant pop stars could paint their stupid ugly hideous drug induced paintings on the side of perfectly good buildings. Just saying like.
“I fought in the war for your kind!”
Ringo: “Bet you’re sorry you won. HehHeh.”
