LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

House, room thermostats combined with the way we heat our houses are pretty sloppy.

My greenhouse holds a constant temperature better than a room thermostat and a central heating system.

 

Its all because of the pandemic.
Pandemic, what pandemic?

Shaps said this morning on the tv that "now Covid is coming to an end," as if it was some kind of play or event.
I thought covid was going to be with us for years.

 

We've used free wood to heat our house for many years, and free wood has not gone up in price.

 

I am still somewhat in shock. I was speaking to a paramedic today ( friend of a friend) and was asking him about the chronic shortages of ambulances being reported in the press daily up here. WELL, straight from the “ horse’s mouth” there are 2 issues being the main causes of the shortage. 1 being getting patients into A&E departments due to bed shortages meaning patients can spend anything up to 4 hours in an ambulance being looked after by paramedics until a bed is available but reason 2 is gobsmacking. About a 1/3 rd of ambulances have been taken out of service to be kept in reserve for COP 26, WHAT? This may only apply to the west coast of Scotland but even though. The conference does not take place until November, we are at the beginning of October? Is this to give time to repaint the ambulances with images of our beloved Nicola and the SNP or to transform them into electric vehicles I ask? It is fine for Scots to potentially die due to delays and shortages as long as the world sees Scotland can cope if a delegate or their entourage needs hospitalisation. We are also hearing the main motorway between Edinburgh and Glasgow ( M8) may be shut at times because Mr Biden is staying in Edinburgh and COP 26 is in Glasgow. Good god that is nearly the equivalent to shutting the M25! The mind boggles and all in the name of our leaders appearing to care about climate change. Can you detect my note of scepticism .

 

You are very lucky to get access to free wood.
Just think of all that pollution you must be causing.

 

70 Year old friend with a badly broken leg told wait for ambulance was 4 hours before somebody took pity on her lying beside the road and took her to A&E, where she waited 4 hours before being seen.

Her discharge was delayed by several days because the staff on the ward got in a muddle over her existing, vital medication and would not listen to her protests that they had got it wrong.

When discharged in late afternoon , she had to wait 3 hours in reception for the ambulance to take her home, which only turned up as the staff were just about to give up and try and find her somewhere in A&E for the night.

It's a shambles.

 

If you get one of them new fangled centigrade thermostats, you can turn it down to 22°C This will thus reduce your heating bill, 72 < 22, by over two thirds
I wonder if the insulate Britain mob have thought of this

 

I'm not sure whether you're joking or not @Fat Controller? Our Tesco certainly isn't.

 

More expense! Plus, I don't like this new system, can you imaging the rude awakening in the middle of the night? I have separate smoke alarms already that will work perfectly well should there be a fire and we don't need a carbon monoxide detector.

Fire and smoke alarms: changes to the law - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

I was talking to my neighbour about this today. She's already had an estimate for fitting the new alarm system. £600 ! I then took her in a printed copy from the link below with a much different price tag.

Fireguard+ | Interlinked Smoke & Heat Alarms Made Easy (fireguardplus.co.uk)