"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Awww, Cheri! Hope you get some relief from the warmth soon - and some blackberries! Tho that combination of warmth and rain might really bring them on - I've noticed when blackberrying that lots of the trees and shrubs look really drought-stressed.

I've just had a phone call from my previous town about the complaint about the locum - I do get the sense that this isn't going to go well, there was a real sense of dozy middle class woman who works one day a week and has no idea of the real world, terrified of talking to someone who'd made a complaint and hardly hearing a word I said even about availability. "Oh you work, do you". Erm, yes!

Fortunately, I'm finding it funny, I'm not attached to the result any more.

Fantastic that you've moved on from it enough to find it funny. Be nice if you do get a positive outcome from it all though!

Karmacat

Oh, it would be good, no two ways about it. I think just having made the complaint, and having The Administration/The Powers That Be take it up, is enough - they're listening enough to put their procedures into action, and if nothing else, thats something.

Lula - see, I knew I was right not to worry :D:D

Chocolate mint sounds fantastic! I intend to grow lots of mint, I like the idea of a cool drink with herbs in, and HM mint sauce too

boredofbeingathome

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Now that ^^^, Dear KC is one of the most perfectly powerful posts I have ever read.

I love it *steals it & runs*


We have lovely rain here too, my carrots & leeks will be so appreciative :T although there is a ready-charge hedgetrimmer here just yearning to leap into action ...

Pffft these folks with their *ready charge* hedgetrimmers:o:rotfl:I so want one..

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I can just see you with a hedgetrimmer, Bob :eek:

gilligansyle

Agree with all the above re: the locum thing.

Love this as it shows how much you've moved on.

Fortunately, I'm finding it funny, I'm not attached to the result any more

Karmacat

Thanks Gill!

Triciaxx

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

Pffft these folks with their *ready charge* hedgetrimmers:o:rotfl:I so want one..

But it has to be black and yellow - it looks really professional. And you need a high viz jacket - and googles - and steel toe capped boots. :j:j

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Love the waves graphic - so bracing, beside the sea :j:j:j :jI don't think this town is my forever town, simply because its not walking distance of the sea, no matter how good a choice it is for now.

But surely it *is* a "walk to the train station, 30 minutes later at the sea" place?

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm not trying right now - trying to be much more realistic,

Why do you think it is unrealistic?

Karmacat wrote: »

I need to take a break from the practical stuff, so a bit of finance chart practice is probably just what I need

A nice view of carnage?

Karmacat wrote: »

I've just had a phone call from my previous town about the complaint about the locum - I do get the sense that this isn't going to go well, there was a real sense of dozy middle class woman who works one day a week and has no idea of the real world, terrified of talking to someone who'd made a complaint and hardly hearing a word I said even about availability. "Oh you work, do you".

The idea behind all these complaints procedures is to produce a sausage machine which make you (the sausage) lose hope as early as possible. This is because the complaint rises higher and higher if you persist at it. Eventually it will trigger someone else's procedures, and the sausage machine turns into the sausage...

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

But surely it *is* a "walk to the train station, 30 minutes later at the sea" place?

What, this place I live in now? Yes ... thats still an hour's journey each way costing £6 return .... 15 minutes walk would be ideal. Tho there *is* a lot to be said for living inland - you have twice as much land available to you, for one thing :rotfl:

Why do you think it is unrealistic?

The trading isn't unrealistic, but the level of concentration needed, while I'm trying to set this place up for my mother's visit in 10 days, would be. I watched a video on the new charting package, and I'm happier with it, tho I'll have to watch it a few more times. So it goes.

A nice view of carnage?
I can't remember what this was about :o:o - I'll come back

The idea behind all these complaints procedures is to produce a sausage machine which make you (the sausage) lose hope as early as possible. This is because the complaint rises higher and higher if you persist at it. Eventually it will trigger someone else's procedures, and the sausage machine turns into the sausage...

OOh, thats about the complaint! Totally agree - almost totally. The other reason for all the procedures is to give as many jobs as possible to as many people as possible, by pushing as much paperwork as possible. When the Ombudsman took my case, they sent me four first class letters in one day, then nothing until that phone call. *Dreadful* waste of money.

Karmacat

Yikes ... talk of the carnage.... horrendous! I'm just on yahoo finance at the mo, and I'm seeing a steep drop on large volume - thats very bad news

Still ... life really does go on. I'm for my book in a moment!