How very dare you, @Dovefromabove, Barnsley chops are not for you Southern softies
How very dare you @punkdoc, OH's family is from Cheshire! He says luke and buke instead of look and book and we go to Framlingham Cassle! I have to feed him in a way appropriate for his genes 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
None of it has anything to do with the NHS , all this type of care is out to private companies, At one point I had some help from a place that was miles away, right across the other side of the Moor, it took her hours to get to us. I don’t know if they claim the money back of the NHS? Or are they funded by Dyson/ Virgin Care and others, I don’t know.
people saying ring this one or ring that one, it’s not that easy, you ring the Doctor your put on a list for a phone call, could be a week.
macMillan nurses don’t just turn up when you need them, I got to the end of my tether once, was told it didn’t work like that, they would put me on the list and phone when someone was free. She did, 3 weeks later, When I told her mum had died she just said thanks for letting us know!
My sympathies are with Hostafan at this time. I feel every move for him.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It's still 'ooop north' ..... from here it's all much of a muchness ... one side of the Pennines is pretty much the same as t'other from down here @punkdoc ... I now Yorkshire likes to think of itself as something set apart, but it's not that different really, I've been to both ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't find Macmillan nurses at all helpful, sadly, but I would guess it's down to the person/local team you deal with - many people have said they find them brilliant. Has to be worth a try. Mum's end of life funding was provided as part of her discharge from hospital - I didn't get involved at all, they just sorted it, so can't offer any advice there. That was 10 years ago, in Cornwall. I didn't have much trouble with the DWP for Dad, either. Same thing I suppose, just a matter of luck as to who you find yourself dealing with.
It's a beautiful day here and the news is so depressing. It seems like such a stark contrast
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hi folks, First day in ages when I haven't had to 'be' somewhere. It's beautiful today so I popped round to Besties and we had a long chat in the garden. Very relaxing. The reports from the flooded areas in Europe look awful. I hope non of our Forum members have been affected. Thinking of you @Hostafan1 Many years ago when I needed to find a place for my Dad I really had to put my foot down to stop them discharging him until I had found somewhere suitable. I ended up driving around all the care homes until I found somewhere suitable that would take him. The Home Manager then helped me organise the funding as I had no experience at all of Social Services. Non of it is easy especially when you feel so vulnerable yourself.
The government is discussing a new tax to help pay for care, so I read this morning. The French have something called social charges, which to me seems like tax, but apparently it isn't. Anyway it is deducted from my pension to help pay for their health service. In France you also pay for board and lodging in hospital which is covered by your Mutuelle, which is like a private health insurance. Mine is about 45€ a month, it's more if it covers dentists and eyes. You also pay when you see your GP, the state pays most back but your share is about 7€, low income people don't pay. I think that is fair enough.
@Dovefromabove we bought bacon with rinds in Morrisons last week. I had to cut the rind off for OH, he doesn't like it.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I buy bacon rashers with rinds on in Leclerc and I used to be able to get packs of lovely, inch thick frozen Barnsley chops at Colruyt in Gembloux but they stopped. However, there's a chap at the Arago market in Olonne who will cut them to order from his home grown lamb. Delish.
The first time I asked he interrogated me on how I was planning to cook them before agreeing to cut them. Leclerc do them sometimes but only 1cm thick which is too thin. I like to get the fat well cooked and crisping without having the meat over done.
Possum and I have discovered there can be too much chocolate! Our dessert was “chocolate dans tout ses états” but I think they missed
a trick. It was all heavy and creamy so a white, milk and plain chocolate
mousse made with cream which would have been lighter done with egg whites;
tuile with flakes of chocolate; meringue with flakes of chocolate; shard of
dark chocolate slab with nougat and so on. I think I’d have lightened the
mousses and maybe done a small slice of chocolate tart and served it with some fruit such as raspberries, strawberries or physalis and a cold crème anglaise to lighten it all up. Neither of us finished it.
T'other pair are now flopping on the beach but I couldn't get comfy and was bored just lying there so have come home to do a couple of jobs and will fetch them later. Lovely weather at last.
I know it's a pain Hosta but I think you should try and phone everyone and every service that's been suggested and write to your MP and write to your local health ombudsman if there is such a thing until someone comes up with a solution. It really isn't fair to expect you or anyone else to just cope in such a situation when you're reeling from shock and struggling with grief for what has already gone from your life and what is to come.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Huge difference between Cheshire and Yorkshire ! Also west side of the Pennines is completely different to the east side ! Much of a muchness ? really ?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don’t know if they claim the money back of the NHS? Or are they funded by Dyson/ Virgin Care and others, I don’t know.
people saying ring this one or ring that one, it’s not that easy, you ring the Doctor your put on a list for a phone call, could be a week.
macMillan nurses don’t just turn up when you need them, I got to the end of my tether once, was told it didn’t work like that, they would put me on the list and phone when someone was free. She did, 3 weeks later, When I told her mum had died she just said thanks for letting us know!
My sympathies are with Hostafan at this time. I feel every move for him.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's a beautiful day here and the news is so depressing. It seems like such a stark contrast
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The reports from the flooded areas in Europe look awful. I hope non of our Forum members have been affected.
Thinking of you @Hostafan1 Many years ago when I needed to find a place for my Dad I really had to put my foot down to stop them discharging him until I had found somewhere suitable. I ended up driving around all the care homes until I found somewhere suitable that would take him. The Home Manager then helped me organise the funding as I had no experience at all of Social Services. Non of it is easy especially when you feel so vulnerable yourself.
@Dovefromabove we bought bacon with rinds in Morrisons last week. I had to cut the rind off for OH, he doesn't like it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The first time I asked he interrogated me on how I was planning to cook them before agreeing to cut them. Leclerc do them sometimes but only 1cm thick which is too thin. I like to get the fat well cooked and crisping without having the meat over done.
Possum and I have discovered there can be too much chocolate! Our dessert was “chocolate dans tout ses états” but I think they missed a trick. It was all heavy and creamy so a white, milk and plain chocolate mousse made with cream which would have been lighter done with egg whites; tuile with flakes of chocolate; meringue with flakes of chocolate; shard of dark chocolate slab with nougat and so on. I think I’d have lightened the mousses and maybe done a small slice of chocolate tart and served it with some fruit such as raspberries, strawberries or physalis and a cold crème anglaise to lighten it all up. Neither of us finished it.
T'other pair are now flopping on the beach but I couldn't get comfy and was bored just lying there so have come home to do a couple of jobs and will fetch them later. Lovely weather at last.
I know it's a pain Hosta but I think you should try and phone everyone and every service that's been suggested and write to your MP and write to your local health ombudsman if there is such a thing until someone comes up with a solution. It really isn't fair to expect you or anyone else to just cope in such a situation when you're reeling from shock and struggling with grief for what has already gone from your life and what is to come.
Also west side of the Pennines is completely different to the east side !
Much of a muchness ?
really ?