Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Just made an addition to the "What are we doing in the garden" thread:
I cleaned the bird nesting box yesterday. I was glad that the well made bed made of moss was empty.

and go straight to the "Latest Moan", adding:
Since then, I have some itchy spots on my right arm. I wonder if there were fleas or similar in that bed.

 

Tsk! You can't get good tenants these days, @simone_in_wiltshire.

 

It's that 'right hand doesn't know what the left is doing' scenario @shiney. Bonkers.
I agree with you @pete. If they can text you for an appointment, you should be able to reply the same way. Your slot could then be given to someone else, which may suit them better than the one they've been given.
I often think it's a terrible waste of paper/resources sending appts. out, which is what we have here, and with the poor mail service in some areas, surely it wouldn't be that hard to text/email folk with their appts. if requested?
Mind you, that would require common sense, the most inappropriately named thing in history.

 

We used to get texts to our landline from our dentist. It sounds very robotic. But the youngsters on reception don't do it anymore as they don't understand technology.

 

I've got itchy spots on my head having been head first in the shrubbery. I think it's midges of some kind. Very small things.

 

@fairygirl, the texts are inviting us to make a flu jab appt, not booking us in. If the NHS sent me an actual appt and I didn't want it, I would let them know so they could reallocate.

 

Meanwhile ... the Lords feel we are unprepared for war and people are not worried enough. The BBC is doing its best to counter this with endless news coverage from various hotspots , but apparently the Lords want civilians to understand conscription will be necessary!

I'm sorry, but nobody, absolutely nobody, should be required to die in conflicts deliberately set in motion by those in power for the furtherance of that power. The whole idea is quite obscene.

 

Don't worry like most on here you are almost certainly too old for conscription.

While most on here will agree with your sentiment; very few who have any real power will read it and of those that do none will take any notice.

 

I'm not worried for me. I'm not trying to attract the attention of the powerful. I am under no illusion that either I or my thoughts matter. I am simply expressing my impotent fury at the state of things ... cos this is the moan thread.

People with any sort of influence who stand against war don't tend to last long. War is a game played by the elites. Get in their way and you get mown down sharpish, either for real or, just as effectively these days, virtually.

 

Very easy to say, but how would you feel if Putin dropped a missile on your house and property.
Its not really something one side can have a choice about. Go away Mr Putin, we are not going to fight you, sounds like an invitation.

Its like not fighting back if you are mugged, even if you come off worse you have to at least try.