Hello all. Missed the last two lovely days, and today it's throwing down again.
Thanks for messages about my Mum. She had her eye done but it proved complicated, took ages and she was quite distressed after it all. Pressure behind her eye, and more probs. We were back at hospital yesterday and going next week. Good news is sight is brilliant, can see distance as well as me and a pair of temp' magnifying specs ( until we see optician in 6wks) and she can read no probs.
Will catch up on threads later, hope all poorly folks are on the mend.
I'm going to bury my head on Sunday night. Dove can dig me out on Monday morning if neither of us have been blown away. I hate wind at night. Ear plugs in.
Hello forkers. SO wet I think its time to build an ark. Today I should be at supermarket but still feeling really grotty so gardening books and plant catalogues to get more ideas fornext year.
I miss some of the things about my job [consultant in Intensive Care Medicine ] but over the years the amount of pointless admin and the pressure from management to do more and more with less and less eventually became unbearable until I seemed to spend no time with the patients at all. This was when it all started to go wrong for me. Once I became ill I was shocked by how little support was given by members of the "caring" profession and now I dont see any of my former colleagues.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
The Health Service in hospitals has changed a lot since I stopped nursing when I started having children. There was a lot of patient care then and not so much admin. The Doctors, Matron and the Sisters were in charge, now it seems to be managers. I did a back to nursing course in France and the nurses spent most of the time in the office with the computers and the phone and filling in forms. Auxillaries, who were very poorly paid, and had 1 year's training looked after the patients, apart from things needing someone more qualifyed. I didn't go back to nursing, had no computer training and it was hard with coping with speaking French all the time as well.
It poured in the night. Today I'm cooking for charity Concert on Saturday.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I know what you mean Verd- the weather up here is often quite wild and windy and it's one of the reasons tall grasses can be a problem. If you don't have a sheltered spot for them they just get battered and look awful. Dahlias are another example and there's plenty more. For spring flowering plants it's the same. Taller tulips often get flattened in wild weather. I'm going to get some shorter early varieties this year and put taller ones in pots that I can position more carefully.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
How awful, Puncdoc! I can relate to this. I was a middle-management teacher and was similarly bogged down in an 84 hour week of admin and people-pleasing (which pleased nobody) until I cracked. I had an acoustic neuroma, undiagnosed, which probably contributed, but I knew I simply could do not more. I spent three months just lying on the sofa and getting through the basics of life before I really began to recover from the stress. I was labelled as playing the system to get a year on the sick before retirement (I was 59) and I also hear from no-one now. Not that I mind! I have a new, much more relaxed and fulfilling lifestyle. Don't post much on this website now (busy with other things at the moment) but had to respond to your comment.
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Morning all, hope you all have a good day, running late, must dash see you later byeeeeeeee
Hello all. Missed the last two lovely days, and today it's throwing down again.
Thanks for messages about my Mum. She had her eye done but it proved complicated, took ages and she was quite distressed after it all. Pressure behind her eye, and more probs. We were back at hospital yesterday and going next week. Good news is sight is brilliant, can see distance as well as me and a pair of temp' magnifying specs ( until we see optician in 6wks) and she can read no probs.
Will catch up on threads later, hope all poorly folks are on the mend.
I'm going to bury my head on Sunday night. Dove can dig me out on Monday morning if neither of us have been blown away. I hate wind at night. Ear plugs in.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hello forkers. SO wet I think its time to build an ark. Today I should be at supermarket but still feeling really grotty so gardening books and plant catalogues to get more ideas fornext year.
I miss some of the things about my job [consultant in Intensive Care Medicine ] but over the years the amount of pointless admin and the pressure from management to do more and more with less and less eventually became unbearable until I seemed to spend no time with the patients at all. This was when it all started to go wrong for me. Once I became ill I was shocked by how little support was given by members of the "caring" profession and now I dont see any of my former colleagues.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
That's sad pd and all too common.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Morning all.
The Health Service in hospitals has changed a lot since I stopped nursing when I started having children. There was a lot of patient care then and not so much admin. The Doctors, Matron and the Sisters were in charge, now it seems to be managers. I did a back to nursing course in France and the nurses spent most of the time in the office with the computers and the phone and filling in forms. Auxillaries, who were very poorly paid, and had 1 year's training looked after the patients, apart from things needing someone more qualifyed. I didn't go back to nursing, had no computer training and it was hard with coping with speaking French all the time as well.
It poured in the night. Today I'm cooking for charity Concert on Saturday.
I know what you mean Verd- the weather up here is often quite wild and windy and it's one of the reasons tall grasses can be a problem. If you don't have a sheltered spot for them they just get battered and look awful. Dahlias are another example and there's plenty more. For spring flowering plants it's the same. Taller tulips often get flattened in wild weather. I'm going to get some shorter early varieties this year and put taller ones in pots that I can position more carefully.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
How awful, Puncdoc! I can relate to this. I was a middle-management teacher and was similarly bogged down in an 84 hour week of admin and people-pleasing (which pleased nobody) until I cracked. I had an acoustic neuroma, undiagnosed, which probably contributed, but I knew I simply could do not more. I spent three months just lying on the sofa and getting through the basics of life before I really began to recover from the stress. I was labelled as playing the system to get a year on the sick before retirement (I was 59) and I also hear from no-one now. Not that I mind! I have a new, much more relaxed and fulfilling lifestyle. Don't post much on this website now (busy with other things at the moment) but had to respond to your comment.