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

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was all an utter c0ck up really.

I agree with GDB that was awful. There's a level of disorganisation and not-joined-up-thinking that's dangerously close to being accepted as a norm nowadays.:(

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I agree with GDB this is awful. There's a level of disorganisation and not-joined-up-thinking that's dangerously close to being accepted as a norm nowadays.:(

This.


We also ( I include me) seem to be losing our common sense. I'm losing it certainly....:rotfl: But it seems we are living in a world where we all no so etchings wrong but if there is no protocol other than it hands are tied.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

My recollection of the price of fresh food in France was it was broadly the same as the UK but far better quality. Prices were slightly more or slightly less but I think that was a result of FX rates changing. There wasn't the same insistence on 365 day/year availability of all fruit and veg there which probably impacted on the price.

Here it can be very expensive: potatoes are often £2/kg, carrots £1/kg, good lettuce £1 each.

But then lamb leg is £4/kg and beef fillet can be had for £8/kg.

I remember we used to go on holiday in France self-catering before we were in the EU (early 70s). Prices for food were astronomical, although weirdly eating out wasn't too bad.

EEC food didn't seem to be imported into Britain much then and was very pricey when you could get it.

Back in the days when we ate Midnight Sun salted Finnish butter imported from the then heart-attack capital of Europe.:eek:

About 10 years later everything in France was much more affordable!

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Hope it works.


the anti-sickness meds as opposed to the kettle, though I hope that works too.

The anti-sickness drugs aren't magic, they don't entirely get rid of the problem. With them, I can eat more things, and not have the awful, constant, overwhelming nausea all the time. I'm only actually sick 3-4 times a week.

Without them, I could hardly eat at all, was sick all the time, and felt rotten.

neverdespairgirl

Shoudl have added - at the end of last week, I got an answer to the question I'd been wondering about - do I still need to take them?

I was running out, and so put in a prescription renewal request. I did that in December, and phoned the surgery 2 weeks ahead to check I could renew it, and they said it was fine, so I did.

This time, I put it in last Monday, when I had a week's tablets left, and when I went back on Thursday to collect it, was told that as I'm pregnant, no prescription renewal was possible. The fact I was also pregnant in December and it was completely possible was, it seemed, irrelevant. Because it wasn't an "emergency", the first appointment they offered me was 6th Feb.

So on Friday, having 11 pills left, I only took one, and spent the afternoon and evening feeling miserable and throwing up. Ditto overnight on Friday, and Sat morning. So the answer was clear, yes, I still need them! OH discovered online that the drug's "pharmacy only" rather than "prescription only" and managed to bully a chemist into selling him a fortnight's supply on Saturday (they weren't keen, but he persuaded them). It cost £12, a bargain, as far as I'm concerned.

lostinrates

Poor ypu NDG. .

It must be upsetting for your oh to watch too.

Are their any old wonves tales about really bad sickness through pregnancy, like ...they give you lots of trouble during gestation but they'll be easier afterwards or anything like that?

neverdespairgirl

Yes, he hates it, not much fun for him, poor love. He also feels frustrated in that he can't do anything to help, although in this case, he could and did. I think it's a lot easier to be stroppy on someone else's behalf than it is on one's own behalf, too.

I'm sure there are old wives' tales about that sort of thing. But the usual one is, "you must be having twins!". Nope. One baby (fortunately. I don't think I could cope with two at once.)

Generali

I went to a supermarket today, not a convenience store, which doesn't sell fresh fruit, veg or meat.

I asked where the veg was and the woman looked at me like I was an idiot.

Mrs Generali's mum is going to hospital on Thurs for a while. BP is 198/119. She wins the blood pressure prize I think.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Merry berry , I find her quite hard to warm to, even though there is no reason why. She seems nice.

I think it's because her default projected persona is one of disapproval, disappointment and making you feel you're simply not good enough.....

PasturesNew

hjd wrote: »

Could easily run into thousands.
I had a case, probably 25 years ago, of a fish and chip shop.
Inspector said it should be making x% gross profit, it is only making y%, so we are going to raise assessments for underpaid tax and penalties.
The inspector had decided that, for each bag of potatoes, there would be an exact %age wastage in peeling, and a very small %age loss in frying/cutting out black bits. He had stood outside the chippy counting the number of customers, he had bought lots of portions of chips and counted how many in each portion so he KNEW exactly how much profit there would be. No argument.
Totally unreasonable, but we won in the end.
I didn't find out whether he ate all the chips or had to throw them out.

Ah, I'm glad to see they do it properly then. Sometimes things just don't make as much as others make at the same thing.