Mundane News

[Illaveago]

My boiler is leaking.

Is it like a scene from Das Boot?

 

[screenman]

New The gravel lorry is 11 minutes late, I will keep you updated.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning it is foggy here.

I am having a bit of a quiet moment, I've just had to chase the kitten around the house to stop him from scratching the furniture, clawing and biting any plastic bags that he can find and chasing him off the work surfaces. When I went to the cupboard he was there wanting the aluminium foil from my KitKat bar. How on earth that old chap was frightened of dying of boredom I don't know. Perhaps he should get a kitten.

 

[Smithbat]

New The gravel lorry is 11 minutes late, I will keep you updated.

I don't think I can cope with the suspense....

 

[Illaveago]

There are two men walking up and down suspiciously, or is it there are two suspicious looking men walking up and down?

 

[fossyant]

The outlaw is finally back home. Been in hospital and nursing homes since May for illness and a fall. Not good that she said she fell again in the home on Saturday night, then found out she had soiled herself yesterday evening going to the loo in her own house.

I can't see her being home long before another incident. She managed 3 weeks at home in July then fell. Just a tumble but the bruising was severy. Much worse than I got from a broken spine and 4 ribs.

She wants to be home but it's not safe. Her worse times are at night.

We have the Web Cam but it's more and more apparent she can't look after herself. We have carers in 4 times a day for 3 hours and someone else twice a week to help with shopping and outings.

It's certainly stressing the daughters.

Gonna be a fun few months.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm going to have to go out before there's more news on the gravel delivery. I do hope that by the time I return we'll have learned what's going to happen to the gravel.

 

[screenman]

New The gravel lorry is 77 minutes late, I will keep you updated.

 

[Illaveago]

I'm going to have to go out before there's more news on the gravel delivery. I do hope that by the time I return we'll have learned what's going to happen to the gravel.

I think it will eventually end up where it started from given time.

 

[Illaveago]

New The gravel lorry is 77 minutes late, I will keep you updated.

Maybe it's been abducted!

 

[screenman]

I do hope they haven't had an accident.

So do I, but this is Lincolnshire and the local suppliers are not known for reliability.

 

[Gravity Aided]

It's popular to whinge at the NHS, but I phoned up my GP and got an appointment within 2 hours. Blood tests were done and results were available in 3 days. I was refered for an X-ray, a walk in appointment was set up within 10 minutes, I drove there in 15 minutes and was processed and out in another 20 minutes. All free.

10 years ago I ended up in a heap in the middle of the road. Within 5 minutes paramedics were there, they did everything that was needed and shephearded me to hospital. A full team of doctors, anaethestists and nurses met me, assessed me head to foot. Radiographers photographed every bit that hurt and some that didn't. A plastic surgeon stitched up a big hole in my face, then I was put in a nice bed where they could watch me go make sure my brain didn't do a flip. A lovely nurse then came and wiped away all the blood and stroked my hair whilst comforting my wife and brother in law who were quite upset. Later I was taken for an operation and the difficult stuff was put right.
In the following three months I was assessed weekly, I had physio and rehabilitation, Dental reconstruction and psychological support until I was ready to be signed off and return ao work. ALL FOR FREE.

I've heard people in other countries say that we are socialists for having a health service funded from taxes. If the alternative is that only those who can afford to buy the tens of thousands of pounds of treatment I needed can get it then call me a socialist.

Surely the mark of a civilised society is when everyone puts a bit of money into a pot to make sure that anybody gets the health treatment they need free of charge no matter who they are.

Just my view.

From what I've heard of it, you folks have one of the best health services going. Shows the sort of progress you can make when you don't have Republicans, and those who elect them, trying to run things. Of course, the Republicans want to repeal our health care system, (of course, they have no "substitute" organized)which has its problems, but most of these problems are made because these private health care providers have done what they can too scuttle it, because they see it as their right to profit off the miseries of the ill. Much of the Republicans basis for the opposition to the policies of the last eight years has not been due to this, but because of the once thinly veiled, but now blatant, racism, ageism, and sexism of that party. I'll take socialism over that trio any day, if we are comparing "isms"

 

[screenman]

The gravel lorry has been and gone, 10 tons is a lot and my driveway is too long, here goes for a bit of excersise. I will keep you updated.

 

[Hill Wimp]

From what I've heard of it, you folks have one of the best health services going. Shows the sort of progress you can make when you don't have Republicans, and those who elect them, trying to run things. Of course, the Republicans want to repeal our health care system, (of course, they have no "substitute" organized)which has its problems, but most of these problems are made because these private health care providers have done what they can too scuttle it, because they see it as their right to profit off the miseries of the ill. Much of the Republicans basis for the opposition to the policies of the last eight years has not been due to this, but because of the once thinly veiled, but now blatant, racism, ageism, and sexism of that party. I'll take socialism over that trio any day, if we are comparing "isms"

We do have the best health service in the whole world and we don't remind ourselves of that often enough. For the bits i have needed it's been great and if it means that my payments go to help someone such as @colly little granddaughter in her hour of need else just so that i can have access as and when then that's ok with me.

 

[Smithbat]

The gravel lorry has been and gone, 10 tons is a lot and my driveway is too long, here goes for a bit of excersise. I will keep you updated.

I feel so much better now!