Am so flaming Angry. Found am oncidium orchid,Sharry Baby,very rare, about 5miles from where my youngest daughter lives,it's a whole sale nursery,but they have public open days and you can arrange a time to visit. She was going to collect it after work today, owner has now said he won't be there. It's a 90 minute trip from mine,am out for lunch tomorrow,so I can't see how I can collect it.
Our GP practice (admittedly a small one) has just 4 parking places. No other free parking nearby except for a few spaces between drives on the street. The rest is all double yellows or residents only. It's opposite the main hospital and the local Council has for many years refused planning permission for any multi-storey parking as they don't want people to drive to the hospital - heaven forbid! It is of course a Lib Dem Council who are very anti-car in Bath in particular. The hospital has the room and has recently built a ground level car park, following all the complaints, I hear it's expensive and always full. I can walk to both places and do, but as I get older, that might not be possible.
Where nearly all pay by phone here where I live, but you can still use pay cards as well.Â
I was at a hospital appointment when the nurse came out to write on the board that they were running an hour late. No problem whip out smart phone and add an extra hours parking. Next to me half a dozen people who had used pay cards to stick in the windscreen now had to leave and walk to the car park to add more tickets and one or two lost their slot.
Tried to explain to one old dear how to do it on her phone, but found we couldn't because it wasn't a smart phone. Luckily I was one of the last to be seen so a quick dash by me to her car sorted it for her and I did my good deed for the day. She was trusting I could have nicked her car, dodgy looking character like me and all It is tricky for a lot of the older generation to get to grips with smart phones, but those that do will find them a greater help than a hindrance.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
If you want a good laugh, @pansyface , Bolsover (pronounced Bow-zer round there) wants to be a city. The second city of Derbyshire no less. It barely ranks as a village. I would have thought Chesterfield or Buxton would claim that right. Apart from the fact it barely ranks a church let alone a cathedral.
Several cities don’t have (Anglican) cathedrals, and plenty of places with cathedrals are not cities. The concept that cathedral = city is a pretty weak one.Â
And as someone who does live in a small village I raise a quizzical eyebrow when the word small is applied to a village with a population in excess of a thousand, more than one pub and more than one shop. I can’t truthfully say I am curmudgeonly about the matter but it is slack use of the language.
I switch off or tune out whenever Johnson is speaking. But what If he had something important to say? What if he was actually telling the truth for once?😕
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I was at a hospital appointment when the nurse came out to write on the board that they were running an hour late. No problem whip out smart phone and add an extra hours parking. Next to me half a dozen people who had used pay cards to stick in the windscreen now had to leave and walk to the car park to add more tickets and one or two lost their slot.
Tried to explain to one old dear how to do it on her phone, but found we couldn't because it wasn't a smart phone. Luckily I was one of the last to be seen so a quick dash by me to her car sorted it for her and I did my good deed for the day.
She was trusting I could have nicked her car, dodgy looking character like me and all
It is tricky for a lot of the older generation to get to grips with smart phones, but those that do will find them a greater help than a hindrance.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/power-cables-stolen-coronavirus-vaccination-095401101.html
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
And as someone who does live in a small village I raise a quizzical eyebrow when the word small is applied to a village with a population in excess of a thousand, more than one pub and more than one shop. I can’t truthfully say I am curmudgeonly about the matter but it is slack use of the language.