LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2019

Developers always win.
We have one around here, a local one, ok got their name on various things in the local hospital and the football ground, but they seem to have the council in their pockets, I didn't say that.

They tend to get their way eventually, be it quarrying on ancient woodland or retail development around motorway junctions, luckily I don't think they build houses.

They sit back and bide their time, but usually win in the end, in the case of this one it's always on about providing jobs and prosperity to the area, and along with those jobs comes people, and along with more people comes more housing.

Then they tell us to stop eating meat and stop using plastic to save the planet.
There is only one thing wrong with the planet.

Overpopulation. Get used to it.

 

Our local "health centre" has 6000 patients, there's four partners but they only work part time, extra doctors are brought in to cover. Some come and go.

They've now started a programme where on random Wednesday afternoons the surgery is closed from 1.00pm for staff training.

I collect my wife's prescriptions, As she's on a high dose of dihydrocodeine, she can't order more until she's nearly out of them. I ordered them on-line over the week-end. They now want two clear days before you can collect the prescription. So I turned up on Wednesday afternoon to find a notice on the door saying "closed for training." Fortunately she had enough to get her through to today.

This also happened two weeks ago. So today when I went to collect the prescription, I asked to see the practice manager. I may have mentioned before that there's a sign now at reception to say that the receptionists will ask you why you need to see a doctor before making you an appointment. (I won't put up with that. I don't need a receptionist to decide how urgently I need to see a doctor). Maybe it was an extension of this when the receptionist asked me "Why do you want to see the practice manager?" My reply was, "I'll tell him when I see him, no need for you to know why."

Anyway, I've complained to the practice manager before, over a missing prescription which a receptionist swore "black was blue," that she knew I'd collected it. It turned out was that it had been misfiled and hadn't been collected. Red faces all round and an apology.

I explained to him my annoyance at finding the surgery closed and asked why he didn't send out an e-mail advising the six thousand patients, or at least those for whom they had an e-mail address when the surgery was to be closed, to save wasted journeys, as I assumd that this training will continue and more Wednesday afternoons would be unavailable for patients.

I was amazed at his response. "We used to do that, but we had a few nasty e-mails back, so we stopped doing it."

"Hang on, you've 6000 patients and you're worrying about a few nasty e-mails?
That's not acceptable, did it really matter? all any of your clerks had to do was just delete them and take those patients of the mailing list."

I've guilted him into starting to send them out again.

 

If the BBC are so hard up, how do they justify paying three people to commentate on just one tennis match at Wimbledon?

 

I, ve just spent a week trying to get a repeat prescription.
Ordered it, but for some stupid reason my repeats are on two different prescriptions that are timed differently.
Picked up what I thought was both last Sat, but it was only the one inside the sealed bag.
Went back to the chemists on Mon, no we dont have the other one.

Went to the Docs on Tues, oh they must have, its a paper one not a E one, wend back to the chemist. Ahh, we have found it, would yopu like to wait? 20mins
No, sod it I'll come back tomorrow, What time? when I get here.

I left it till today, they treat you like a ping pong ball the pair of them haven't got a clue.
Picked it up after work today, 4 days without any.
I probably dont need them anyway, my Doc just puts me on stuff out of a whim.

He decided I needed statins 6 months ago, never had a cholesterol test, told him I didn't want them, Oh well, try them, see how you get on.

Anyone want some?
I've got 6 months worth for sale, might put them on E bay.

 

I tried statins so did my doctor, we both gave them up!

 

Or they could have simply checked up to 12 months ahead using roadworks.org app which I have on my phone and tablet.

 

I hope the people making very loud noise's at 3am don't get woken up by someone at 10am mowing their grass while they are having a lie in because they were out to the early hours waking up everyone else

 

Bottle tops, mostly beer bottle tops, I can remember getting twist off ones back in the 80s in America, and also come across them from French imports.
But the only ones I find over here, UK, are on Budweiser, its made here.

So why are the others so backward thinking? and do we have to mess around with bottle openers from 200 yrs ago ?

 

This is so true.


The twist off cap was invented in 1892. American beer bottles have had them since 1960.

Budweiser started using them over here a few years ago.

I do tend to have a Budweiser now and again, "for gardening purposes," they've even got their own fridge in the room at the back of our garage. The fridge was really designed for cans, but I converted it.

 

Just browsing and found this post. Memorandum and Articles of Association. My first job as a solicitors clerk. I got promoted to the Company Law dept. One never ending task was checking & proof reading these docs.
Incidentally, most insurance policies have a legal advice provision.

 

Maybe some people like it?