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Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

No. And they failed to bring me a replacement docket ( last week they brought be back one weeks worth on the basis that changes to script might be made to allow drug change, and they were. They are now saying they cannot get hold of that one either.

The docket they brought me ran out today I think.

Oh lir. What a right royal PITA. Is there a plan c?

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Celery is part of a mirepoix: the starting point of most French and Italian food. No celery = no chicken cacciatore, no boeuf bourgingon, no bouillabaisse, no ragu.

A mirepoix is that mix of onion, carrot, celery and garlic cooked in oil or butter.

Yes but then of course it doesn't actually taste like celery in the same way the onion doesn't taste anything like raw onion...

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You just lose it,

Don't the EU get very upset unless you have 20 days plus bank holidays off per year, not even sure this can be opted out of like the working time directive?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Yes but then of course it doesn't actually taste like celery in the same way the onion doesn't taste anything like raw onion...




Don't the EU get very upset unless you have 20 days plus bank holidays off per year, not even sure this can be opted out of like the working time directive?

Very true. I like celery raw or cooked as it goes. Then again I like most good food really. What I don't like is badly cooked food.

Celery is a lot like bay I think. It adds good depth of flavour to a dish.

Spirit_2

I like celery , raw, in recipes and braised. it is a bit of a favourite with oh too.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh lir. What a right royal PITA. Is there a plan c?

Faith healing?

I'd be cutting my nose of to spite my face leaving a delivery service.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

michaels wrote: »

Don't the EU get very upset unless you have 20 days plus bank holidays off per year, not even sure this can be opted out of like the working time directive?

I have no idea.

Employment law doesn't even begin to register at this level.

If you want promotions and bonuses you do whatever it takes to get them.

If you don't, you drift along in the middle of the pack working 'sensible' hours and getting beaten by your peers that are willing to work harder and longer.... You won't get sacked, but you won't move ahead either.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

No. And they failed to bring me a replacement docket ( last week they brought be back one weeks worth on the basis that changes to script might be made to allow drug change, and they were. They are now saying they cannot get hold of that one either.

The docket they brought me ran out today I think.

What a PITA.....fingers crossed it will be sorted next week.

Nikkster wrote: »

Efficiency - what's that? My 'hobby' is probably the least efficient thing any NP has ever done. Ever.

...to be fair a PhD is a somewhat extreme kind of hobby ..it's not like going to a Step class or cake decorating class once week. Those things are hobbies. A PhD is a vocation, a mission (that should be written as A Mission), A Journey (of the brain)...some people do them as FT job and can't finish them. Don't be hard on yourself.




I need to have spare brain space and energy for family issues right now too.


My Dad would appear to have had a prostate issue for the past couple of years and has a 3 + 4. His treatment options are pretty grim and leaving it alone doesn't appear to be an option (as that is what he has been doing) as he cannot urinate at all. He has a catheter.


Being an academic he has researched his treatment options and has confidence in his consultant at UCL so I am less worried about how he copes. He is realistic with himself about living for a further 2 -3 years. He has been weighing up the choices of quality of life against quantity if life. The impotence issue is a big deal to him even though he is 82....though I guess it would be at any age really.


MIL is a total nightmare at the moment and I am not getting involved this time as her neediness and poor life choices have run their course with me. I feel bad writing it down but it's how I feel (OH is fully in agreement but it is his Mother so he has no choice but to get dragged in to all her dramas.


My mother seems to be ticking over nicely now and I hope the template of her op can be now made available to younger people with her condition. No sign of a tumour coming back, the new bile ducts are all working well and living with 45% of a liver seems to be fine.

Generali

It's another total fire ban day today. No solid fuel fires to be lit including bbqs. No using power tools that create sparks. No smoking in bush areas. You can use a gas bbq but you have to stay with it at all times and have a way to put out a fire if you start one.

It's going to be 34C with lightning including dry strikes and 90kph winds. There's a big fire burning in the mountains just outside a fair sized town called Katoomba. Google the 3 Sisters: it's the iconic view in the Blue Mountains.

fc123

michaels wrote: »

Don't the EU get very upset unless you have 20 days plus bank holidays off per year, not even sure this can be opted out of like the working time directive?

They wouldn't know unless somebody told them....


I know a lot of small business owners who have never worked less than 50 hours per week for years and maybe only a week off in the summer and a couple of days @ Xmas. It's almost normal.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Faith healing?

I'd be cutting my nose of to spite my face leaving a delivery service.

I have very very nearly given something along those lines a go this week. Just in case.

I guess the supply problems are more likely to be a national problem anyway. I just wish you lived closer to the pharmacy I know. I hope you get some good news soon.