How nice for you.  :)

Mira that was about 5/6 weeks ago. Times changed since then..

Last time you communicated Sidney, you were going to Lundy, so I just presumed you were still in Europe.  :)

What makes you think that I am in Europe this second??

Hi Sidney!  Glad you got your 'FBI' problem sorted out ... although, if you're in Europe, shouldn't that be the CIA?? ;D

Squashed body In a car crash*

Not exactly squashed but hit then.

I remember seeing a swuashed body I a car crash In Erfurt back a few years.. And  hOLIDAY around New York once I went into the Santana Blocc Crips Gang bit in New York and there was a shooting. But I was just a white touritst so you know I just walked out and I didn''t get no bullet in me.

Trix and Mira... both of those things are good but I was 19 and not keen on the snotty nose look! Plus.. they both make your eyes run. I was given a tip about the mint creams by an older copper who had some in his pocket.  :))

vicks vapo rub is also used under the nose....

You have to have a cast iron constitution, that's for sure ... and I admire those who can do a vital job like that.  I'm not particularly squeamish regarding the sight of blood (I was a blood donor for 20 years) ... with me it's more about the putrification ... that's what would make me gag.  I hear Tiger Balm is also good for putting under the nose to block bad smells.  ;)

As part of police training you have to attend at least one post mortem. I was "lucky" and attended 2 in my 13 weeks training. When I was 5 years old I'd discovered a man who had hanged himself. It didn't bother me because at that age I don't think it really sank in. So I consider the first post mortem to be the first dead body I'd properly seen. David Hewspear was the pathologist and he always made sure there was a name label on the left big toe. That was the first thing that struck me..... after the smell. A couple of the male officers fainted. By the next post mortem I discovered that sucking a Clarnico peppermint cream helped enormously. The first pm was an elderly man, the second was a baby of 10 weeks. After seeing that I don't think there was anything else to shock me.

I'd be too squeamish to get involved in anything like that.  ;)

No forensics for me. When I joined it was still at the fingerprints stage. They could identify different blood groups but couldn't pin it down to a specific person. Things have developed in leaps and bounds.  I think the DNA discovery is the most fantastic thing ever.

MD, when you were in the police force, did you get involved at all with the forensic side of things?

And now there's more.

Very......

Looks interesting .... "forensic evaluation."

i think maybe things will go in my favor...i'm a very tolerant  and patient person but my mind is always planning ahead to MY future...

Mira Bilis, what a dreadful thought but nothing that is going to concern you!

And divorce laws are even more moronic here than they are in the UK, apparently.