Mundane News

[classic33]

Well, I've tracked her down to the cardiac catheter suite but I can't get anyone to answer.

Is there a switchboard/general number that can get you through, as an internal call?

 

[Jenkins]

The street light just up from my house has blown so I couldn't tell how wet/dry/icy it was when geting ready to go to work at stupid o'clock this morning. I would report it, but someone else got there first.

At least the weather has improved from damp, grey & cold to just grey & cold.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Is there a switchboard/general number that can get you through, as an internal call?

The general automated line and the operator line connected me to the same number which rang for around 45 seconds before telling me that the mailbox is now full, goodbye.

I eventually got the operator to take pity on me and put me through to a number which worked! Minor heart attack, 2 stents successfully inserted and she's now waiting on the results of her covid test before being released into the Coronary Care Unit.

 

[Jenkins]

I have also delivered the Ch****mas cards to my sister and her family. That I had to visit a warehouse on the other side of Ipswich for work this morning and she lives just the other side of the A14 from where I was going and happened to have the cards with me is just a coincidence.

The formal request for partial retirement has also been submitted to our central HR unit. By the end of January I should find out what nitpicking reason they have found to reject the forms and have them re-written and submitted again and then the fun will begin with the pensions unit buggering about with the figures.

 

[classic33]

The general automated line and the operator line connected me to the same number which rang for around 45 seconds before telling me that the mailbox is now full, goodbye.

I eventually got the operator to take pity on me and put me through to a number which worked! Minor heart attack, 2 stents successfully inserted and she's now waiting on the results of her covid test before being released into the Coronary Care Unit.

Glad you got through.
Hopefully you can sleep a bit easier tonight. Not knowing what's happened is the worst part. Especially with only the first part of the story to go with.

Keep that number that worked for you, human operators can do things automated systems can't.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Glad you got through.
Hopefully you can sleep a bit easier tonight. Not knowing what's happened is the worst part. Especially with only the first part of the story to go with.

Thanks,@classic33 . It does mean I now have to update all her family and friends but better to bring good news to follow the bad.

 

[classic33]

Thanks,@classic33 . It does mean I now have to update all her family and friends but better to bring good news to follow the bad.

Try and get them not to call the ward, as it can be like visitors allowed in at present. As few as possible or non.

Get other family members to pass your messages/updates on. Don't do it all yourself.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Try and get them not to call the ward, as it can be like visitors allowed in at present. As few as possible or non.

Get other family members to pass your messages/updates on. Don't do it all yourself.

My only living brother is currently somewhere in the Utah desert so he's not going to be much use. Mum's family is Swiss so they're not going to be bothering the ward nurses. Unfortunately they don't all speak to to each other so messages have to be doubled up as do the languages, English for one, French for the other.

As a transnational dysfunctional family, that's how it goes.

I can only think of 2 other people in London who might visit her so, again, I don't think they'll run the nurses ragged.

 

[Reynard]

Sending big hugs and purrs your way @deptfordmarmoset

 

[Reynard]

Just finished decorating my Christmas tree and stringing some fairy lights up in the dining room. And I've hung up my collection of cat-themed stockings. It's beginning to look a lot like Weihnachtszeit hier zum Casa Reynard.

Have also booked to pick up a box of lateral flow tests from the dispensary at the Quack tomorrow. The friend I'm meeting on Thursday has an extremely clinically vulnerable OH, and I'd hate to inadvertantly give him any nasties.

 

[Illaveago]

I don't think so... The little s*it has now chewed a hole in the ceiling.

And everywhere is out of stock on rat traps. But I have found one of those extra-powerful rentokil mouse traps in the garage, so I'm going to rig that to a wire line and string it to the beam (cos I can get my hand through the hole) and shove it up into the roof space. I'm happy to catch it any old how, and personally take great pleasure in dispatching it.

You need the explosive which Dr Sidney Alford demonstrated on a TV programme . He demonstrated how volatile it was by touching some dried explosive on a metal plate with a feather . He said it was too sensitive to be of any use . Now if you could paint some on the floor of the tunnel they made the next time they stepped on it ! Kaboom !

 

[Reynard]

You need the explosive which Dr Sidney Alford demonstrated on a TV programme . He demonstrated how volatile it was by touching some dried explosive on a metal plate with a feather . He said it was too sensitive to be of any use . Now if you could paint some on the floor of the tunnel they made the next time they stepped on it ! Kaboom !

Hmmm, you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off...

I'm not quite that keen on releasing my inner Susan Ivanova...

 

[classic33]

My only living brother is currently somewhere in the Utah desert so he's not going to be much use. Mum's family is Swiss so they're not going to be bothering the ward nurses. Unfortunately they don't all speak to to each other so messages have to be doubled up as do the languages, English for one, French for the other.

As a transnational dysfunctional family, that's how it goes.

I can only think of 2 other people in London who might visit her so, again, I don't think they'll run the nurses ragged.

Scattered to the winds?

I was thinking more about not losing your line of contact, now you have one.

Have fun with the translating. I've had to chose my English wording, carefully, when sending text messages to Irish relatives. Too much "Yorkshire in them" at times.

 

[Reynard]

I have a and a couple of crumpets.

 

[rockyroller]

The general automated line and the operator line connected me to the same number which rang for around 45 seconds before telling me that the mailbox is now full, goodbye.

I eventually got the operator to take pity on me and put me through to a number which worked! Minor heart attack, 2 stents successfully inserted and she's now waiting on the results of her covid test before being released into the Coronary Care Unit.

wow! wonderful news! get some sleep