I've just been picked for jury service but I don't think I could physically cope with that - has anybody had any experience in getting out of it?
I was recently called for jury service. I have Parkinson's and can't sit still for any length of time because of tremors and dyskinesia. I filled in the online reply form asking to be excused and explaining why and received a letter within a couple of days confirming that I was excused.
Thanks for that @Singing Gardener and everybody else. I think I've been called for jury service in error as I'm now over 75 so will fill in the online form and say so.
Wasted a whole day yesterday (a decent gardening day, too) trying to sort out a really aggravating electrical fault. The MCB on the kitchen lighting circuit keeps tripping but not always immediately. I tried disconnecting the outside light in case water was getting in somewhere - bit of a forlorn hope as it's the MCB not the RCD that's tripping. No dice. Took all the connections out of the kitchen light switch. Nope. Tried the next switch along the circuit. Still no (after just long enough pause to make me think I might have found the problem). Ended up changing the MCB in the CU, disconnecting the whole lot and then reconnecting each circuit, but I'd only got as far as the light in the downstairs loo before OH needed to put the oven on for dinner so I had to stop mucking about with it. So after a whole day of wiring (which I hate doing and makes me grumpy at the best of times), we still don't have a light in the kitchen and now I've got a full week of work so it'll probably be next weekend before I have time to try to do anything about it.
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Well that was confusing. I'm expecting my new trail camera in the post today and a lady just knocked the door and when I answered she just said 'camera?' and made a gesture like she was using an invisible camera. She wasn't holding a package (and seemed to be wearing a coat over pajamas) and I was confused about how she'd know the contents anyway but agreed that, yes I was waiting for a camera. She asked me to confirm the house number which I told her while pointing to the number on the wall by the door, except the number isn't there anymore because I moved it to be more visible a few weeks ago, but I couldn't see that from inside. She started to look at me like I might be insane and read a strange women's name off her phone. Not being a strange women I suggested she might have the wrong address but she insisted that this was the right number. I suggested that houses in other streets had similar numbers and it transpired that she may have just picked a random road rather than read the street signs. She's probably gone off to one of my neighbours now to tell them about the nutter that lives around the corner.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I had a similar problem just before last Xmas. The garage and garden shed lights went off, not immediately upon being switched on, but a couple of seconds later. Actually it was one of the (many) Circuit Breakers located on the garage wall that switched off automatically. It took me (and the electrician) some pondering before we decided that the culprit must be an outside socket... and it was just that.
The electrician told me that rain must have entered that outside socket, and it was "normal" that it took a couple of seconds for the circuit breaker to react and switch off. He disconnected the outside socket (which I am never using anyway) and all was fine.
@Fairygirl Considering that "Saint Blaise was the bishop of Sebastea and a doctor. The first known
record of the saint's life comes from the medical writings of Aëtius
Amidenus, where he is recorded as helping with patients suffering from
objects stuck in their throat"...
I suggest that prayers might be offered to that saintly doctor to cure innocent visitors of the park from the poisonous effects of daffodils inadvertly stuck down their throats.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
You don't even have to read beyond the headline to get the gist
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/st-blaise-town-council-in-cornwall-daffodils-cut-down-health-and-safety-150247506.html
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...