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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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I is diggin' ya thistles cardoons baby! :lol Good luck with your rocky waters crossing, are you ship-shape and Bristol fashioned? Awww babby thrush
The camera angle makes it look like he's got fat green legs ha haa. Have you a backup for the flat, sodden hay?
Edit - Beechgrove was on the catchup but not the telly last night, and wasn't worth the watch. They've decided to pair that awful Kiwi woman with her that's a lecturer at the uni. Bad combo. But next week it's George and Carole yyyaaaaayyy!I oppose genocide. I support freedom of speech. I support freedom of assembly.6 -
Yes, we have an on-line booking thingy here, Bluey, but as I've said before, the old farmers etc still ring or just turn-up, so there's 'flexibility' in the system.
The on-line booking works well, and we often get a response in hours. For something like bloods, they'd book us in with a nurse, not a doc, but he/she/they would be looking at the results. Also, there's an app called 'My Care,' where we, the patients, can see our results too, whether at the Health Centre or in one of the hospitals. So....it can work OK, though knowing more doesn't always = reassuring.
That's poor, though, if your optician won't now explain a remark made during a test without a new appointment.“Appropriately, 2020 helped me see more clearly.” Comment on YouTube.6 -
Yep I thought it was a bit crap too. I thought I could just nip in, her tell me what she saw and what things I should repeat to the doc/receptionist and that'd be the train in motion. Wrong again. The text thing is good too, in certain circumstances. Having spoken to the gatekeeper receptionist, she sent me a text thing while I was walking home so I could describe my symptoms, I replied quickly, and she'd replied again by the time I got home. She said the doc agrees I need seeing and they'll be in touch with an appointment when they have one. So it's a good system for little (?) things cos I spose anything more serious you'd take yourself to the Hurry Up And Wait clinic. There must be a lot of people who don't/can't/won't use the nhs app or they wouldn't have invented this secure text thing. We're a bit rural too mind so I expect that's true.
OTThanks for giving us a go with your bad good weather - it's properly persisting it down here now
No sign of the cement mixer that was booked for 8am...
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I was just about to post that we have had mizzly wet rain and winds all week except one, when just now the heavens opened and we’ve got proper heavy rain.
YBE was it the 3d eye scan you had? I went optician this week too, and had to pay 5 pounds for a 3d one that shows the layers of the eye rather than just the back , mine fortunately was all clear. I had been just before for blood pressure check with nurse( never been asked in before) so I knew there was no problem with that or diabetes etc as she checked my blood test results too from back in May ! She said results can be checked on the Nhs app now. So that is good as I can never remember the numbers . I have the bloods annually cos of under active thyroid.
Gardenwise as yesterday was the 1 good day this week, I had washing out and dry. I mowed the lawn, cut the climbing hydrangeas as it was getting under the gutter on the garage and attempting to go over next door into the barren garden where no green I’d allowed.
Also cut the yellow leaved Abelia think it’s kaleidoscope. Then tied in the clematis on the arch.
Decided that was enough , as I’m still supposed to be taking it easy, but as I’m back to work in a week need to start moving more.
Dusty loved the baby thrush, and the red and purple combination of flowers much nicer than bins, I have 4 bins and have a planter to hide them, hate them being in full view though appreciate not many houses have room for 4 bins and no choice of where to put them.
hope everyone is well and COVID and wonky lists are back to normal .🤞🏻Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.5 -
Oooo it's not good when people get aches, pains and the like in JulyBut it's been lashing down all night, high winds and it's 11c out thereSo far all it's done is rot blooms and flatten overly ripe plants. I'm sure it will come good in a week or so.Hmmmm not worth going to a doc here unless you are really serious. All locums so can diagnose symptoms but not corelate them to your health/state of mind etc.Bluey was that Specsavers you went to? They won't do anything other than a paid for test. One of them (as it's always someone different) threw me under the bus one Christmas because she didn't know my background.As to the garden I went out to get the sodden fat block off the grass and return it to the bird table because there was a little bird looking bemused that their breakfast had disappeared.Chasing pigeons off the seeds, sheesh they are smart birds how every trick I try they can use against me.I think some birds flew out of the raspberries as I went out to chase them. no wonder I don't have many - but if I was a little bird sleeping out in that weather I think I'd go for any food that's out there so I'll forgive.Family gatheringBaby wondering where parent has goneAh she's bought back supperI've beeen trying for lots of photos but they just don't stay still!And they aren't too happy about having a big black eye looking at them........that's the camera not meI'll even make up for lost time and prove that its raining
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
viral kindness .....kindness is contageous pass it on
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
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Hope everyone on Sick Parade is improving, or at least, no worse, and Wort moving around again. My list to Port is same but only hurts if a move or twist a bit sharpish.More wind and rain overnight, and looking like Heaven's about to open again any minute now.I had planned to go up to Volunteer place this morning & water the pots, so that's one job savedNo gardening yesterday due to weather, and I think the same is going to apply today, but I would like to mooch just to check on my carrots, did I imagine green shoots or was it wishful thinking?I also think I can spot a Bean Flower, climbing French, white flowered, but hard to tell just looking out of a windowI've always wanted to grow cardoons, just for the looks of them, , one day, maybe.YoungBlueEyes said:Edit - Beechgrove was on the catchup but not the telly last night, and wasn't worth the watch. They've decided to pair that awful Kiwi woman with her that's a lecturer at the uni. Bad combo. But next week it's George and Carole yyyaaaaayyy!Dustyevsky said:-taff said:Dusty, your friend sounds like a bit of a mad one, but a glorious kind if he's buying fighter planes..Your stump piles are a bit mahoosive but then, you have lots of space so hopefully lots of insects.
The story doesn't end well, however, as the plane's engine cut out over Wales when the pilot was returning from a show. All he could do was point it at a lake and eject!
On the positive side, no one other than the pilot, who received spinal injuries from the ejection, was hurt.
After that, low level displaying over land was restricted., which is why shows these days can be a bit lack lustre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Shoreham_Airshow_crashThe black sky has gone now, I'll try & follow 2P example and get some damp flower pics, my lilies are opening so a chance there
Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens5 -
YBE - I'd put in a complaint to the optician that they told you something that serious without explaining it. And find a new optician.
2P - I used to go to SS as that's where my work vouchers gave me an eye test. Went to an independent after I moved who said my prescription is so minute it is barely perceptible. So no new glasses - paying for the test ended up being cheaper than having a 'free' one.
We seem to be having squalls of torrential rain interspersed with quieter periods. I have some seedlings to plant - all out on the beds in their trays, but don't fancy going out at the moment!7 -
Yes Greenbee, I've been tempted to move more than once but I use contact lenses too and they are cheaper than the local optitions. I must have another reccy re glasses frames. The SS ones are poor. And yes, each year a minute change but I just don't buy new specs.Still cold, blowing though it's brightened up. I don't like this new sort of weather because it's not safe to walk under trees and too wet and windy to go in the open. That's why I'm still hovering around the computer
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
viral kindness .....kindness is contageous pass it on
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
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I remember that Shoreham airshow crash, jeez I can't believe it was nearly a decade ago
I like your mini story board 2p, that's so sweetAye it was Specsavers I went to cos I like a properly full test inc the OCT which the independent doesn't offer. I'll review that situation if they get a scanner though.
I'm considering a complaint tbh gb. I'm thinking of going back in and saying something, just formulating it in my head first...
Still raining, still no mixer. Grrrr.I oppose genocide. I support freedom of speech. I support freedom of assembly.6 -
Just pointing out Specsavers are a franchise, which is why the two in Bigtown, where we go, are very different, even if they retail the same specs. We've learned by experience. Last year, when I checked-in, there was little difference in my vision, so I too walked out without purchasing.Off to visit others' gardens now.“Appropriately, 2020 helped me see more clearly.” Comment on YouTube.6
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