Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

Having been nudged by the MSE email, I've downloaded those LPA forms and filled them in. £82 each (one for finance, one for health). So £164 per person.

I understand the finance one is important, but the health one I'm struggling with. Don't doctors act in a patients best interest? and consult immediate family/ next of kin? So why am I completing and paying to register something that says next of kin can make decisions???

vivatifosi

Had a news alert so clicked through, thought "that looks interesting".

SpaceX launched a rocket, then the first stage separated and flew back to earth where it landed upright and on the cross in the middle of the landing pad. Seriously impressive.

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

Had a news alert so clicked through, thought "that looks interesting".

SpaceX launched a rocket, then the first stage separated and flew back to earth where it landed upright and on the cross in the middle of the landing pad. Seriously impressive.

Ooh! They've done it now, have they? :T

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Ooh! They've done it now, have they? :T

They've done it several times now.
In March this year they launched the first recovered first stage to be reused, and successfully recovered that.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Don't doctors act in a patients best interest? and consult immediate family/ next of kin? So why am I completing and paying to register something that says next of kin can make decisions???

It's complex.... I had financial PoA, but not health - when it came to the time I was able to have the discussions re health due to the people/care home/Hospital involved and the type of discussions we were having.

But there must be some times when you'd have liked to have "decided" but aren't able to - and that doesn't happen for most people ... so it's "just in case".

When it came to the end point, even without any Authority, we were involved in the discussions about what would happen - and were asked preferences... (Resuscitate or not) but were told that ultimately it's the Doctor's decision. In any case, it was irrelevant, as any form of resuscitation, at most/best, would be to a vegetative state without any chance of change/improvement. However, I'm sure if there might've been "a slim chance" and we were people wishing to decide for a 25-35 year old, not having any "power" to "insist" is what people would want.

Every situation is different - and it's not until you're in one and would wish for a different outcome that you can begin to understand or realise the implications of having/not the "power".

PasturesNew

My hedge had half a massacre. I'm rubbish at anything to do with "green stuff that's outside".

I have a hedge. It's quite tallish now. As it gets a bit tallish it gets a bit more wide. I want it to remain smallish and not very wide. So it needs to be cut.

What sort of hedge is it? It's green... with wood holding it up

I have those fat/heavy "loppers" like power cutters.

My method is to stand in front of it and look for "bits that are sticking out most", then follow down to where they branch off and chop that bit off... repeat until you think one of: I've had enough now -or- oops that was too much.

It's looking as if a lunatic went along and did it.

Oh well, it's done to the best of my ability.

It's now "half done" ... top still needs to be trimmed down by about a foot .... but not today.

I did it as I then had a "purpose to go out" .... so I went to the tip and back. Did attempt to shuffle round Ald1/£land, but there were no parking spots. What's wrong with people... it's BHM !!!!!! .... only losers and loners should be in those shops!

Pyxis

Pastures, that green stuff, does it look like it might be part of a fir tree? Hope to God it's not Leylandii! Difficult to prune without it going 'bald'!
Does it have lots of smallish green leaves and grow very quickly? Probably privet. You can hack privet about to your hearts content. It regenerates more than Dr. Who!

Does it turn brown in Autumn? If it does, it might be Beech! If it is, you're lucky, as it's very attractive and slow growing.

Does it bear any flowers at all? You'd have to describe them!

Does it shed its leaves in Autumn? Probably not privet, then, unless it's a certain type of deciduous privet, either English or another nationality, can't remember.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did attempt to shuffle round Ald1/£land, but there were no parking spots. What's wrong with people... it's BHM !!!!!! .... only losers and loners should be in those shops!

So what were you doing there, then?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Pastures, that green stuff, does it look like it might be part of a fir tree? Hope to God it's not Leylandii! Difficult to prune without it going 'bald'!
Does it have lots of smallish green leaves and grow very quickly? Probably privet. You can hack privet about to your hearts content. It regenerates more than Dr. Who!

Does it turn brown in Autumn? If it does, it might be Beech! If it is, you're lucky, as it's very attractive and slow growing.

Does it bear any flowers at all? You'd have to describe them!

Does it shed its leaves in Autumn? Probably not privet, then, unless it's a certain type of deciduous privet, either English or another nationality, can't remember.

Blimey. I tried to get photos from past house sales and crop them down, but they ended up too small to be of any use.

It grows quite slowly. It's currently about 6' high. I chopped it back 3 years ago and it's grown about 18-24" since. It's always green, it doesn't drop its leaves. It's got big shiny leaves that are quite a lightish green.

I'll go take a photo

EDIT: Taken some, but I am so disinterested in hedges that I cba to upload it straight away .... it'll come later.

My neighbour has an electric strimmer thingy - and he just zips round his twice a year and he has a hedge about 5' tall that's neat and has leaves from the ground to the top, all neat and even. Then there's my massacred end.... and the people in the middle don't bother much either.

Pyxis

It might be one of the viburnums.