Must admit since having a little rant this morning before I went out certainly put me in a better mood for the day.....Infact I would say a really good mood.
That's the great thing with rants, Flower. They are cathartic, especially if someone else is receptive and sympathetic. That's the great thing about women getting together. We can moan, no-one takes us too seriously and it doesn't matter if we go over the top. They know we'll go back to normal life and just cope.
Tina, how I agree with you! It is humiliating, as if we patients were an inconvenient necessity of surgery life, rather than the taxpayers who fund the whole thing and indirectly pay the wages of everyone there. They don't get more phone lines because then they'd have to pay more staff, yet they don't have online bookings, which would be much more helpful both for patients and for saving the time of the reception and office staff. People who are not computer literate would then be the only ones taking up the receptionists' time. Why, oh why, do they not recognise my qualities as the fount of wisdom and let me sort it out for them????
Just one rant, thieving squirrel scum that out of 500 + bulbs, decides just to dig up and eat the narcissi specially bought for my missus at £1 a bulb, there's only 40 odd out of near 600, yet the swine has had 9 so far, and that is with netting laid, I'll be dusting off the air rifle at this rate, either that or baiting the heavy duty farm rat traps I have with the left over remains..
Hi GG, about 12 years ago i rang my company doctor for an appointment and was told i could have one in three months time ,a couple of days later i had an angioplasty i was off work for abut six months but while i was convalescing they sent a letter to my home demanding that i attend the chief medical officer in Dublin , his excuse for the long wait for the appointment was that they don't like malingerers,I was employed by this company since 1974 was never out sick first time 2001 retired December 2012 early
That's pretty trying, Derek! I had a difficult time six years ago with a doctor who thought I was a malingerer and treated me as such. I had a brain tumour! (It was benign and surgery has dealt with it permanently and safely. I only have brainstorms on Wednesdays!)
LearningSlowly, here is a link that might interest you.
It says that daffodil bulbs are poisonous to squirrels and repel them, but they may move them, so plant 'em deep. Wish I knew why the squirrel only went for daffs. I suppose no neighbour is nicking them, since they are a bit special?
That's pretty trying, Derek! I had a difficult time six years ago with a doctor who thought I was a malingerer and treated me as such. I had a brain tumour! (It was benign and surgery has dealt with it permanently and safely. I only have brainstorms on Wednesdays!)
LearningSlowly, here is a link that might interest you.
It says that daffodil bulbs are poisonous to squirrels and repel them, but they may move them, so plant 'em deep. Wish I knew why the squirrel only went for daffs. I suppose no neighbour is nicking them, since they are a bit special?
I see that thread GG, how odd, mind my parents had a static caravan in stratford-upon-avon and had loads of bulbs in planters and troughs etc, and they used to go walkabout, rabbits/squirrels (there were loads of both!), who knows, but my daffs were excavated and the daffs were close on 5" deep. Since I've never seen rabbits here, only foxes and squirrels I'd think it's one of them. Regards to my neighbours, how would they know which were the expensive ones out of so many, I haven't told anyone !!
Titter e not!! Yeah, sometimes it is good to have a growl about something.. I wouldn't normally be bothered but OH Birthday April 20th, which would have meant these daffs would be out in force, too late to buy/plant anymore now ;/ (she doesn't know, so I can't even shout about it to her!)
GG, when you get the job, may I be your little helper.
Another gripe about the docs is do the receptionists receive special training in bluntness and rudeness? I always feel I am being a total nuisance in daring to call. I find myself sort of apologising for troubling them to answer the phone.
I think I shall have to duck after I make my next gripe. Far too much football on TV. There, I've said it.
Oh, Tina, you are a woman after my own heart!! I have been known to sit and endure a match (rugby actually) for the sake of OH and at the end to ask, 'Who won?' It is all Greek to me! I could not ask for anyone better to be my little helper!
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That's the great thing with rants, Flower. They are cathartic, especially if someone else is receptive and sympathetic. That's the great thing about women getting together. We can moan, no-one takes us too seriously and it doesn't matter if we go over the top. They know we'll go back to normal life and just cope.
Tina, how I agree with you! It is humiliating, as if we patients were an inconvenient necessity of surgery life, rather than the taxpayers who fund the whole thing and indirectly pay the wages of everyone there. They don't get more phone lines because then they'd have to pay more staff, yet they don't have online bookings, which would be much more helpful both for patients and for saving the time of the reception and office staff. People who are not computer literate would then be the only ones taking up the receptionists' time. Why, oh why, do they not recognise my qualities as the fount of wisdom and let me sort it out for them????
Just one rant, thieving squirrel scum that out of 500 + bulbs, decides just to dig up and eat the narcissi specially bought for my missus at £1 a bulb, there's only 40 odd out of near 600, yet the swine has had 9 so far, and that is with netting laid, I'll be dusting off the air rifle at this rate, either that or baiting the heavy duty farm rat traps I have with the left over remains..
Hi GG, about 12 years ago i rang my company doctor for an appointment and was told i could have one in three months time ,a couple of days later i had an angioplasty i was off work for abut six months but while i was convalescing they sent a letter to my home demanding that i attend the chief medical officer in Dublin , his excuse for the long wait for the appointment was that they don't like malingerers,I was employed by this company since 1974 was never out sick first time 2001 retired December 2012 early
Derek
2nd rant of the day
it doe'smake you feel good though .
That's pretty trying, Derek! I had a difficult time six years ago with a doctor who thought I was a malingerer and treated me as such. I had a brain tumour! (It was benign and surgery has dealt with it permanently and safely. I only have brainstorms on Wednesdays!)
LearningSlowly, here is a link that might interest you.
http://www.ehow.com/list_5991149_flowers-keep-squirrels-away.html
It says that daffodil bulbs are poisonous to squirrels and repel them, but they may move them, so plant 'em deep. Wish I knew why the squirrel only went for daffs. I suppose no neighbour is nicking them, since they are a bit special?
I see that thread GG, how odd, mind my parents had a static caravan in stratford-upon-avon and had loads of bulbs in planters and troughs etc, and they used to go walkabout, rabbits/squirrels (there were loads of both!), who knows, but my daffs were excavated and the daffs were close on 5" deep. Since I've never seen rabbits here, only foxes and squirrels I'd think it's one of them. Regards to my neighbours, how would they know which were the expensive ones out of so many, I haven't told anyone !!
Titter e not!! Yeah, sometimes it is good to have a growl about something.. I wouldn't normally be bothered but OH Birthday April 20th, which would have meant these daffs would be out in force, too late to buy/plant anymore now ;/ (she doesn't know, so I can't even shout about it to her!)
Oh, Tina, you are a woman after my own heart!! I have been known to sit and endure a match (rugby actually) for the sake of OH and at the end to ask, 'Who won?' It is all Greek to me! I could not ask for anyone better to be my little helper!
LS, I haven't a clue about squirrels really.