Have you tried phoning your GP @Busy-Lizzie ? I know they will be closed but ours then has an answerphone message that refers you to the out-of-hours service. It’s always worked for us, even when Chicklet got appendicitis deep in 2020 lockdown.
Hope you get seen soon. I have never had a home Dr visit in my whole adult life (can’t remember about when I was a child) - I think the system now expects you to get yourself to see them by hook or by crook.
It was our Garden Club’s Flower Show today. I won a first prize for my camellia . Very proud 🥹
We grow it as a tribute to littlest Chicklet 🤣 …..who is also an Annie W 🥰
Don't want to boast, but I won 1st in 3 stems miniature daffs, 1 stem tulip,3 stems tulip, 1 vase grape hyacinths, 4 rock cakes, 2nd in 1 stem large daff, 1 stem miniature daff, 1 vase mixed spring flowers and 3rd in 1 vase flowering shrub.
I will admit that was probably down to our best grower being off sick and I came 2nd overall. Never thought of taking pics.
My thoughts are with @Busy-Lizzie at this time. Hope you are feeling a bit better and that you can make contact with someone who can help you. Sending hugs x
I am so sorry @Busy-Lizzie. Health care in the UK seems to me to run like a lottery, not that here is all roses of course. Anyway, do vent all you frustrations here, we don't mind that's is what this thread is for. I just hope that you are going to be seen and soon.
Yesterday we did go to the nursery, I was a good girl and only bought thyme plants and red chard.
Today is cloudy but will stay dry. A short walk with fellow codgers is planned for 11.30, sarnies in backpack. Have a good Sunday all.
I slept quite well and the pains have receeded, still tender to touch on the left side, but getting better. Thank you all.
@chicky the duty doctor was the one who rang in the night who said I should see a doctor but there wasn't one to see unless I went to A&E. When you ring OH's surgery it only tells you the opening times and if you ring at 8am it says all the lines are occupied and if you ring after 9am it tells you to try again tomorrow as all the appointments are taken. For OH's last appointment I went to the surgery at 8.30am and pleaded with the receptionist. If you can get through on the phone and it's nit an emergency they give you a phone appointment in a month's time. Yet there are 2 new housing estates being built in this little village and loads of new houses in the village where the surgery is. Not enough doctors or schools.
Enough of all that! Well done for your beautiful camelia, well deserved.
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Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Glad you’re feeling a bit better @Busy-Lizzie 😊 All is ‘quiet’ here this morning … OH is getting ready for work and son is snoring gently 😉 Im showered, dressed and ready for the day … son has a friend visiting later … he will be coming by train so I’ll help son into the car and we’ll pick him up from the station. He may stay for supper (roast loin of pork, apple sauce etc) which we’ll eat when OH is back from work around 5:30 ish.
Have a lovely Sunday folks … the green woodpecker has been yaffling nearby for about an hour 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm going back into battle with the corner of the garden where brambles have been running riot, entwined with a mahoosive rambling rose (American Pillar). Round one yesterday went to the brambles. I have a cut on my face and holes in my jumper and spent all evening humming "I fought the hedge anna, the hedge won"
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Glad you are feeling a bit better @Busy-Lizzie. What a nightmare it is trying to see a doctor these days. A few years ago I spent a night in agony with what turned out to be a kidney stone and infected kidney but was lucky that a doctor was able to make a home visit in the morning. I was immediately given strong pain relief and my sister in law drove me to A&E - where I waited until midnight before getting a bed. Who knows what would happen to me these days if it were to happen again?
@chicky - well done on the win! I used to be secretary of our horticultural society before everyone got too elderly/died and it sadly closed. I loved the people, the fierce rivalries and the banter!
@coccinella - your pic. made my heart skip a beat - I just get so excited when I see that kind of thing.
Lovely day here yesterday. Did some pricking out and the courgettes have immediately gone into my new zip up g'house. The old coverless one was successfully moved and I was quite calm and methodical in putting the new one together. At first. We got there in the end though but I was sorry it had to degenerate into cussing as the cross supports kept springing out.
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It was our Garden Club’s Flower Show today. I won a first prize for my camellia . Very proud 🥹
I will admit that was probably down to our best grower being off sick and I came 2nd overall. Never thought of taking pics.
I am so sorry @Busy-Lizzie. Health care in the UK seems to me to run like a lottery, not that here is all roses of course. Anyway, do vent all you frustrations here, we don't mind that's is what this thread is for. I just hope that you are going to be seen and soon.
Yesterday we did go to the nursery, I was a good girl and only bought thyme plants and red chard.
Today is cloudy but will stay dry. A short walk with fellow codgers is planned for 11.30, sarnies in backpack.
Have a good Sunday all.
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I slept quite well and the pains have receeded, still tender to touch on the left side, but getting better. Thank you all.
@chicky the duty doctor was the one who rang in the night who said I should see a doctor but there wasn't one to see unless I went to A&E. When you ring OH's surgery it only tells you the opening times and if you ring at 8am it says all the lines are occupied and if you ring after 9am it tells you to try again tomorrow as all the appointments are taken. For OH's last appointment I went to the surgery at 8.30am and pleaded with the receptionist. If you can get through on the phone and it's nit an emergency they give you a phone appointment in a month's time.
Yet there are 2 new housing estates being built in this little village and loads of new houses in the village where the surgery is. Not enough doctors or schools.
Enough of all that! Well done for your beautiful camelia, well deserved.
Glad you’re feeling a bit better @Busy-Lizzie 😊
All is ‘quiet’ here this morning … OH is getting ready for work and son is snoring gently 😉
Im showered, dressed and ready for the day … son has a friend visiting later … he will be coming by train so I’ll help son into the car and we’ll pick him up from the station. He may stay for supper
(roast loin of pork, apple sauce etc) which we’ll eat when OH is back from work around 5:30 ish.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sticking cold, so no gardening for me, but list of chores given to Moira.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@chicky - well done on the win! I used to be secretary of our horticultural society before everyone got too elderly/died and it sadly closed. I loved the people, the fierce rivalries and the banter!
@coccinella - your pic. made my heart skip a beat - I just get so excited when I see that kind of thing.
Lovely day here yesterday. Did some pricking out and the courgettes have immediately gone into my new zip up g'house. The old coverless one was successfully moved and I was quite calm and methodical in putting the new one together. At first. We got there in the end though but I was sorry it had to degenerate into cussing as the cross supports kept springing out.