I just had a card through the post and Royal Mail in their wisdom have used a 'happy Valentine's day' franking mark on it. It's a good thing my wife knows that no other women would put up with me.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I just had a card through the post and Royal Mail in their wisdom have used a 'happy Valentine's day' franking mark on it. It's a good thing my wife knows that no other women would put up with me.
My Husband and I agreed on a pact. Based on our assumption that nobody else would , or should be expected to , put up with either of us: we must stay together.
More anger than curmudgeonly. Friend of OH has bad endometriosis, she saw gynaecologist who booked her for surgery, but told her there would be a 6 month wait, despite the fact she has to take morphine for the pain. In the last month, she has collapsed twice at work, but the surgery was not able to be brought forward. She has now had to borrow £4000, so the surgery will be done privately, tomorrow. No blame on the surgeon, but the system is broken. She is also likely to lose her job, because she has had too much sick leave over the last few years.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
.....but told her there would be a 6 month wait, despite the fact she has to take morphine for the pain. In the last month, she has collapsed twice at work, but the surgery was not able to be brought forward. She has now had to borrow £4000, so the surgery will be done privately, tomorrow. No blame on the surgeon, but the system is broken. She is also likely to lose her job, because she has had too much sick leave over the last few years.
You are correct about the system being broken. My brother-in-law works as a postman and needed a hip replacement. He saw the consultant in the October, by which time he could only walk by using painkillers. Consultant said it was so serious it needed to be done by the end of January at the latest. My b-i-l had to stop work at the end of November, and when he didn't have a date by mid Jan he called the consultant's secretary. She said he wasn't booked in during January, or February or March! In the end he had the surgery at the end of June. He wasn't in a position to pay to go private unfortunately.
A friend of ours had been waiting for back surgery, she was in wheelchair, absolute agony, they paid 8,000. for private treatment, in by the end of the week. NHS has gone to pot, if we had relied on them my son would have been dead. Just as well we have the option to go private.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
But we shouldn't NEED that option, Lyn. The NHS is being systematically destroyed because of critical underfunding by this government. It makes me so angry. How dare they dismantle something as wonderful as the welfare state in the name of austerity?
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can think of several other foods which fit that description too!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OK with chick peas , even grown them on allotment
Poundland have some summer bulbs in - lilies and the like- and they look fresh to me.
Friend of OH has bad endometriosis, she saw gynaecologist who booked her for surgery, but told her there would be a 6 month wait, despite the fact she has to take morphine for the pain.
In the last month, she has collapsed twice at work, but the surgery was not able to be brought forward.
She has now had to borrow £4000, so the surgery will be done privately, tomorrow.
No blame on the surgeon, but the system is broken.
She is also likely to lose her job, because she has had too much sick leave over the last few years.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
NHS has gone to pot, if we had relied on them my son would have been dead.
Just as well we have the option to go private.