Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Doozergirl

Spirit wrote: »

We are probably the last people in the world to have seen this, and I know it has been running years... but I am going to admit, the Spirit family have just seen Les Mis at Queens theatre. I had no prior knowledge of the plot, and did not previously know the tunes until I recognised them. DD had seen the film and OH had read the book.

I loved it, could have turned around and watched it again.

We were going to go up by train but it was £115 for the three of us and £13 to park and took an hour and 40 mins to Waterloo. We drove, parked in Chinatown paid £36 and reached home an hour and forty minutes. So faster and cheaper to go in a car. Am I wrong for thinking this ludicrous?

Park on a single yellow near the theatre from 6:30 and it's free

Driving is almost always cheaper than the train to london from here if there are two of us -it's



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zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

Park on a single yellow near the theatre from 6:30 and it's free

Driving is almost always cheaper than the train to london from here if there are two of us -it's

If you're in town for a show it may be worth using this website to book a meal before the performance. It publishes pre-theatre meal deals for any unbooked tables they havce left on the day.
Click on Dining and then select London or wherever from the drop-down menu (the default is Glasgow as that's where the website's based but it covers London really well).

You need to accept /decline quickly before the deals get taken. The deals have time limits ie must be out of the table by 8PM or whatever. A lot of the tables/offers get snapped up between 4-5PM

michaels

To be fair, if you think about the economics of it, at times of day when not that many people are traveling it can make sense for car travel to be cheaper than train travel, and greeener, until you have more than a certain number of people in a train you are actually moving more weight per person in the train than you are in the car. It is only really in peak times where road space is insufficient and vehicles with one occupant where the economics and environmental benefits of public transport 'win'.

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

To be fair, if you think about the economics of it, at times of day when not that many people are traveling it can make sense for car travel to be cheaper than train travel, and greeener, until you have more than a certain number of people in a train you are actually moving more weight per person in the train than you are in the car. It is only really in peak times where road space is insufficient and vehicles with one occupant where the economics and environmental benefits of public transport 'win'.

Unless the train runs whether you're on it or not of course.

Train pricing is stupid in my view. If you know where you're going and at what time (exactly) a couple of months in advance then it can be very, very cheap. Buying tickets on the day can be ludicrously expensive. That sort of pricing model seems to assume a captive audience who have to swallow the inflated 'walk up' price, but of course if you can just drive instead it doesn't work. So it makes sense for fares to be prices that way if the ticket is being sold in Central London, but not so much for tickets for travel to central London.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the one they fitted in my mum's house ..... it took several months (4-5 months) from start of process to getting it - and they randomly turned up to fit it 1-2 days around Xmas .... we just happened to be renting the house next door (booked before mum was taken to hospital), so saw them walking up the path and let them in.

Goes to show how random the whole thing is. We didn't know we were getting one and they turned up following day. So in my mind Herts FB = excellent.

On the other hand, DH has been ill for a couple of days so had to contact the out of hours GP service. Took him to surgery, which was at local Urgent Care Unit. In spite of being told that he was sufficiently worrying that he had to be seen (when he would rather stay in bed) and having appointment for a set time, he had to wait 1hr 45 mins beyond that to be seen. The waiting area was filthy, with bloody tissues on the floor, none of the chairs had arms, so the elderly man with a head wound had to be assisted to sit, when additional docs came down from the wards to help clear backlog there were no free consulting rooms. Additionally for most of the time there was some bloke wandering around in the background with numerous hot drinks (for himself, not others), but too important to bring said man a chair or clean up some of the detritus. Once again, my already low opinion of my local NHS trust hospital plunged new depths.

lostinrates

Does herts homeland have any of the private run but soley NHS things?


My OLD GP practise was really good, I am still in touch with go from there who was just fabulous. They have now become an all female practise (no interest to me) and recently saw some one I know from overseas who was staying in the area as a visiting patient. Their care for that person was incredible.

A good GP practise is amazing, because they can make huge difference in other aspects of care my being the touchstone to coordinate, chase, reassure. They also help by encouraging referring to places other than the less good options locally.

zagubov

Thank you to the NPs who answered my request for info!
Much obliged! :T

vivatifosi

I know that there are private GPs in St Albans, but I don't know what hours they keep. In terms of other facilities, I like the Luton and Dunstable, everyone speaks highly of it, but it isn't the local hospital so we don't get referred there. DH is under St Marks teaching hospital, but that's too far and they may not see us under the out of hours thing. I called 111 at 6pm and he was seen at the hospital just before 11pm. It wasn't very good. I know that in the NHS there can be emergencies where the doc you are waiting to see can be called up to the ward, but there can be no excuse for giving people a clean and comfortable place to wait for long periods of time. The clinical staff were great, but the non-clinical staff just seemed resigned to offering a cr*p service and didn't try to facilitate anything. ETA: and I know the look of those non-clinical staff. It's what you see when you don't empower people to action little things that are clearly things that they would be able to control (such as getting a chair or calling a cleaner) so any little stroke of initiative is trained out.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm frightened FOR our dogs this morning. Something was up last night, they had us up every hour. Both fir and I feel so e what exhausted and short tempered. We couldn't see what was upsetting them/ unsettling them.

Now THEY are sleeping.

You're frightened for your dogs? Why? Because of the revenge you are planning?

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know that there are private GPs in St Albans, but I don't know what hours they keep. In terms of other facilities, I like the Luton and Dunstable, everyone speaks highly of it, but it isn't the local hospital so we don't get referred there. DH is under St Marks teaching hospital, but that's too far and they may not see us under the out of hours thing. I called 111 at 6pm and he was seen at the hospital just before 11pm. It wasn't very good. I know that in the NHS there can be emergencies where the doc you are waiting to see can be called up to the ward, but there can be no excuse for giving people a clean and comfortable place to wait for long periods of time. The clinical staff were great, but the non-clinical staff just seemed resigned to offering a cr*p service and didn't try to facilitate anything. ETA: and I know the look of those non-clinical staff. It's what you see when you don't empower people to action little things that are clearly things that they would be able to control (such as getting a chair or calling a cleaner) so any little stroke of initiative is trained out.

If a hospitalis in your trust you can be referred there, so could presumably be referred to Luton and Dunstable?

I was referred to uclh on my request, after a confusion because I meant private but the referral was made NHs.

I will say that the NHs is becoming much better at offering choice like that. Personally I'd rather have faith my local hospitals /services were clean and would seek advice quickly over things they were not experienced in. But I think the offering of choice is so much better than it was. The integration with private is dramatically better than it was ten years ago too.

All my orginal file is not my NHs notes, just in a file I cart around with me, but now, things are interactive, t
And the NHs will listen to what the private folks have found. It must save the NHs hundreds of thousands for some patients.