Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I have just come off statins, and did speak with my GP to be sure it was safe before doing so.

One of the issues I have is with my eyelids (droopy) and apparently it was discovered somewhere in the US that they can cause droopy eyelids - and this started when I was put on statins. There is something like a 35% chance of reversal when stopped, *if* they are proven to be the cause. In fairness to my GP, she was fantastic about it.

 

Debt and overburden.

Take where I live. I am under Spelthorne Borough Council - they are responsible for street lighting, bins, parks, pavements etc - but roads, they are the responsibility of Surrey County Council. Now why do I need two levels of council?

Think about it, as a rough guide at the minimum we have:

- Income tax
- VAT
- Insurance Premium Tax
- Fuel Duty
- VED
- Alcohol tax (if you partake)
- Nicotine tax (if you partake)
- Inheritance tax (if in the bracket)
- National Insurance
- Council tax

Collection of each has a different department, and these are just the ones off the top of my head. Surely it would be easier to simply say that you can have £25k to yourself each year and then anything over that, we are taking 40% of it? The amount of tax raised would be surely broadly similar, without all the mechanisms required to collect it.

Bin these two tier councils. Have a countrywide agreed standard for recycling, roads, street lighting and so on, instead of each council working to their own made up goalposts (that shift when they know they won't meet them)

 

That is my worry, as the muscles in my face have been seen to be thinner than they should be on an MRI scan.

 

In fairness to the prescribing doctor originally, my cholesterol was high, my BP stupidly high, so they were the right thing to do. My diet back then was typical 'bus garage' fare (bacon, eggs, chips, curry etc) and to make matters worse all served up by an Irish lady who ran the canteen that knew me for many years and only ever wanted to 'make sure her lads were never hungry'.

Now, it is an entirely different ballgame - I work from home 75% of the time and couldn't tell you the last time I ate anything from the works canteen. Fried foods is a rarity and much as I love an egg, it is two maybe three a week and even then not every week. Whereas I used to demolish a large meal and go looking for afters, now I couldn't even contemplate eating a plateful.

 

They had me down as allergic to penicillin - - never been allergic to it in my life, and proved it to my GP a couple of years ago when she agreed to prescribe amoxycillin for a raging chest infection. I was right as rain in around a week.

 

Not really a moan, but a chuckle or sorts...

At the weekend, after spending a day doing whatever and being somewhat broken, I ended up seeing an advert for grass seed, so I proceeded to go on and order some (admittedly, not paying much attention). It was one of those websites where you order the amount based upon the area you need to overseed and it would appear that I have confused feet with metres or something as 10kg of grass seed has arrived. My grass area can't be much more than 25 sq/m

 

Absolutely - head gardener up for disciplinary later.

 

I tried them for a while way back when - they did nothing for me at all.

In fairness, my BP is now in the 110-125/75-85 range, checked at home and also have one of those smart watches that tracks it too (still need to set it up properly though)