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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Same here @B3
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Hostafan1 said:
    I'VE GOT OIL !!!!! 
     24 hours after ordering. 
    Fingers crossed the plumber can get here and "bleed" the boiler for me.
    Yay!! Now you can keep warm. So pleased you've got it.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    This is the time of year when I'm really glad that my garden isn't as big as I used to think I would like it to be.

    I know that feeling.  Unfortunately my garden is as big as I used to want it to be.  Now it's a battle to get it back under control after a couple of years when I could do very little out there.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Great news @Hostafan1 :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    B3 said:
    This is the time of year when I'm really glad that my garden isn't as big as I used to think I would like it to be.

    I know that feeling.  Unfortunately my garden is as big as I used to want it to be.  Now it's a battle to get it back under control after a couple of years when I could do very little out there.
    ditto

    Devon.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Had a telephone consultation with the GP practice physio on Tuesday morning, and have been referred for an x ray of my dodgy hips. An appointment has arrived in the post this morning, for an appointment in ten days time, and on a Sunday! Very impressed.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Ergates said:
    Had a telephone consultation with the GP practice physio on Tuesday morning, and have been referred for an x ray of my dodgy hips. An appointment has arrived in the post this morning, for an appointment in ten days time, and on a Sunday! Very impressed.

    Great to hear a positive story about the GP system.  Unfortunately they do seem pretty rare.  My brother-in-law had a hip replacement 6 or 7 years ago, and it went well.  In the past 12 months he's been experiencing sharp pain in the same hip, and it started very suddenly, which reminded him that his surgeon had said he should have an x-ray after 5 years, which didn't happen.  He phoned the surgery about that, got a call back with a face to face appointment but when he arrived it was with a physio.  Very short consultation where he was told it was just his age, and no mention of x-ray.  He is still battling to get the problem investigated properly.  As he says, if they pain had come on slowly he would still want the x-ray but would agree it was probably just his age.  When the pain is sudden he questions that.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    I probably should have said that I first tried to get an appointment with the GP! First available consultation was telephone only, and not until mid May! I could have had a face to face appointment with the physio today, but I’m isolating before a hospital admission on Monday, so went for the earlier phone appointment instead. Still, I’m very pleased with the outcome, and very impressed that the x ray department in our local ‘cottage’ hospital is working on a Sunday.
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