Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

The Dr and chemist are on my list today!
A week ago my son went to hospital and ended up with a note for a treatment to be handed to the doctor; can't be just noted in the system and done, this was a request for the Dr to write a prescription and was using carbon copy paper! It's bloody 2025!
Went to chemist to collect it and they have no idea about it so we chase the Dr who finally do the prescription. Back to chemist to collect it but no, the prescription was for an obsolete treatment and it's back to the Dr to start again.
arse and elbow, while in a brewery.
The NHS operates in the dark ages.

 

A lot of it is done by computer modelling. I had a bit of a debate with Richmond Council many years back when they redesigned a junction, and in doing so made it absolutely impossible to get a bus or a coach turning left around the corner without riding the rear nearside wheel over the kerb. Wee fella came out for a site meeting with me and I explained the problem, to which he pontificated for ages that it was state of the art computer modelling and it knew the size of the vehicles and their track.. yada yada yada... So I took him to the garage, pointed to buses sat there and told him to pick one - then, I took the bus he picked and drove it around the block to the corner and made him watch as I took the corner and I blocked the junction because I didn't ride over the kerb (I had the tyres right up against it, but not on it) which meant that the nose of the bus was up against a traffic light pole.

After wiggling it back out and getting it to the garage, I asked if he wanted to try and drive it.. the answer was no. That junction was redone within a fortnight to resect the kerbline.

 

My moan starts on Saturday (in fact, in all certainty, it started a good while before that...)

We have a really large chest freezer in an out-buidling, which to the back end of last year had built up quite the stock of food - this was a wee while ago, but similar levels remained.



On Saturday, Mrs C went to get something out to defrost for Sunday and found everything soft/squishy/defrosted. I then dug down as far as I could and found that it was the same all the way as far down as I could reach. The lot was ruined.

This freezer operates on a single extension lead as the sockets are at the other end of the room - mice had chewed through the cable. They got "lucky" in as much that they chewed through the neutral and not the live conductor, so no fried mouse or fire...

So, gutted out and on a lash up extension lead yesterday, we had a big empty hole (apart from what was left of the emergency bag of frozen chips from dinner)



And today -



The scary part is that there is roughly £200, and barely covering the bottom, so you can imagine the sort of money we've just seen go into black bags - not least as the stuff we had wasn't processed stuff like we have there, but had quite a lot of 'proper' butcher meat.

If you've got an appliance in a shed or an outbuilding, check the cables!

Needless to say, along with the replacement cable, there is some poison going down...

 

Oh they will have grain tomorrow... nice, blue grain

 

I have - as it happens the Volvo had it's MOT today, and my old 'adoptee project' has the older wiring that they generally don't bother with. It is the corn starch type material that is used in the outer covers of wiring now.

 

That is a risk I suppose, but there is little option here - the areas I have away from the dogs isn't accessible enough to put traps down and I cannot risk not doing something and ending up with a fire. Thankfully, we don't have a lot of cats around here (very much a dog neighbourhood)