Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I can never remember the chips being put just in newspaper, they used to always put them in some kind of clean paper before wrapping them in news paper.

Not sure what the first wrapping was but it looked like a small folded pocket of grease proof paper.
I dont know what they fried them in, it looked just like a bath of oil very similar to today.

 

I remember the awful greaseproof bags. They were nasty.

Before that, all our local chippies used to put a tiny, almost pointless piece of grease proof paper about 6 inches square, which was supposed to protect the chips from directly touching grubby pictures of Sam Fox's assets, which always seemed by coincidence to be the page of old newspaper my chips were wrapped in when I was a kid and had to pretend not to notice while sat round the table with my parents and older sister.

That tiny piece of grease proof served no practical purpose, as it wasn't big enough to wrap the food, so the steam and excess moisture still got absorbed.

 

Sam Fox was not even dreamed (oh dear) of in my chippy days. Then they had this plain absorbent paper that went between the food and newspaper. Those awful Southerners could have had naked (Oooo) newspaper. Don't even mention when the hotdog man arrived.... Served someone, then wiped his wet hand on his bum before shouting "next" !

 

I think its basically the same as now, you get that bit of grease proof paper followed by white ordinary paper, I've never seen the whole wrapping in grease proof.

 

That plain white paper now is non porous, basically like greaseproof. Unless you get different stuff in your neck of the woods.

 

Can still get chips cooked in dripping round our way, and wonderful they are to.

 

Back in 1955 the chippy was wrapped in Newspaper, later in 65 it had a non printed sheet of newspaper then wrapped in newspaper, later it moved to the afformentioned grease proof and the destruction of the fish Lot as we new it, Now we have that plastic sheet that destroys it even more yuk

 

A & E Aged 77 I had a bad fall, it turned out I had broken my lower leg at the Fibula
My daughter took me to A & E Where I waited for the triange to asses me, I was placed priority
My daughter and I sat in a croweded waiting area, 90% of which were mothers with their child with a Skint knee, or fell in the street and had gravel rash on their hands and knees, Or fell off the trampoline and had a bruised bum
There were about sixty of us, It ended up I was xrayed, plastered up and hospitalised for ten days ?
Whilst in the hospital I had the best of care, Pretty good food, and the WI Trolley, though a couple of the young (18 yr old) patients were a total PITA With their demands

 

Agree they need to get inappropriate a&e attendances sorted. I was in a&e a few weeks ago and I was furious when mums were bringing their kids in as they had a cough and couldnt get in at the gp-they were playing happily-i was furious. Then an older woman came in because her gp didnt listen to her. Just just felt “ill” and couldnt put her finger on it.

At the NHS region I work for they have tried gp streaming where those folk who come with gp issues are sent to see a gp in like a doctors waiting area-separated from the more serious a&e patients. Unfortunately it just attracted more people to come to a&e instead of gp. Drives me mad!

 

One of the very strange nuances of the 'Covid Days', A&Es up and down the country were empty seemingly. On a recent ambulance journey to A&E (arterial fibrillation issue) I was chatting to one of the crew about empty A&Es, she was saying how strange it was and how now ambulances are having to queue to safely deliver their patients. On a couple of occasions as a kid the GP stitched me up, they took blood samples, you felt like you were at death's door if you were referred to A&E. I'm not saying it was better, just as it was.

 

When I heard that yesterday @Loofah - I actually said out loud 'Seriously? You're having a laugh'
Utterly disgusting.
They [the investors] openly said a while back, when Thames water were claiming all the usual malarkey after it all came out about the amount of sh*te that was going into waterways, that they would refuse to invest more unless it was passed onto the customers. Aye very good - decent hard working folk paying for the total ineptitude, and then being blackmailed.
The blatant arrogance of them all.

Plain paper at our local chippy. Not had one for a long time though. I share with daughter and don't have many chips, as I'm not that keen on them. Not really living up to my Scottish stereotype am I?

 

If only everybody followed the Prevention Is Better Than Cure rule then the NHS would be in a much better state

 

Can you elaborate? I'm not convinced many people choose to need medical help.

Funny story. I do martial arts for fun and fitness (or I did til about a year ago but that's another story). Inevitably, occassionally things go a bit wrong and as with absolutely any sport or physical activity, injuries happen.

One day I was chatting on the phone to one of my 'kung fu bros'. I was sulking a bit because I was nursing an injured leg. I told him I was sick of nursing minor injuries. His reply was a cracker. He said, there is a way to absolutely guarantee no martial arts or sporting injuries. You could sit still on the sofa and do nothing, then die of a heart attack. His point was obvious. We don't set out to get hurt. Quite the opposite, we're working hard to keep ourselves fit and strong to prevent problems. But sometimes no matter what path you take, you just get some bad luck.

 

Conundrum time, seeing that more swimmers drown than non-swimmers (non-swimmers don't go into deep water, nor do they lark about in it), so therefore should we be teaching our children to swim?

Infinitely (it seems) more cyclists die from accidents than any other activity, so therefore perhaps bicycles should be banned?

While I contemplate think I'll lie down with a large G&T, (alcohol? Oh wait.....).