Morning all Cold & foggy here but the sun is making an effort to break through.
Today I need to have a good clear up, then sort the freezer to try to make some space, then ironing then light the fire & write C cards with some dreadful Channel 5 Xmas film on in the background.
However, writing cards may prove difficult as I will have fingers crossed on both hands.
One for Clari - hope the job situation works out - intrigued as to what it might be
The other for DD. Well done for keeping your nerve re the price. Have no idea how French conveyancing works but I really hope it works out for you
Fairy - nice to see you. Hope the wrist starts to improve soon - we miss you
Must get on SYL
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Yesterday the fog here was awful. Proper pea soup and using the whirly orange light on the top of the truck to make sure when I was on the country lanes people had a damn good chance of spotting me.
Today it is just .... grey.
Well there I was sat at family planning when I heard a voice I recognised. A friend who died last year made a fire safety video and it was him in all his glory telling people to know their fire escape routes. It completely took me by surprise and I was so close to bursting into tears when fortunately the suffering of others cheered my mood no end.
Imagine this...
Teenager boy enters family planning clinic, looks like bambi and scuttles up to the reception
Boy: can I have some *mumble mumble mumble*
Receptionist: some what?
Boy: *mumble mumble mumble*
Receptionist: (rather more loudly than you'd think needed) Oh! You mean CONDOMS. Do you want a selection pack of CONDOMS or just the ordinary CONDOMS?
Boy: (goes bright purple in the face) *mumble mumble*
Receptionist: (hands over a carrier bag full: seriously she must really over estimate this poor boys stamina!)
Boy: (makes for fast escape)
Receptionist: HAVE A NICE AFTERNOON!
All patients in reception:burst into laughing
With that lot even if he's making balloon animals he's guaranteed of a good something
I found it most odd that he even needs to go to family planning for condoms. Aside from the whole idea that a baby is a lot more expensive for the NHS to fund rather than condoms (in an effort not to get side tracked with why doesn't he just buy them himself and save the NHS money)... surely this is the kind of thing a pharmacist could deal with? Or even a free vending machine on the wall.
I go to the local library for my hearing aid batteries rather than trek to the (not very) local hospital so its not like they're against outsourcing.
Confidentiality is something I have always found lacking at this hospital: if the person behind me in the queue doesn't know enough details to steal my identity it usually means that the receptionist hasn't gotten round to that bit of the questionnaire yet.
It was bad enough when I was a teenager and had to go into a small shop and had to ask the (male) assistant for some Dr White's or Tampax (can't remember which). He then shouted to his wife to get some from out the back.
So the whole of the shop knew about my menstrual cycle. At about 14 that was very embarrassing.
But that was in a corner shop over 40 years ago. Very, very wrong that a young lad trying to 'do the right thing' was made to feel silly, embarrassed and, quite possibly, ashamed in a medical facility in this day and age.
I'm afraid I would consider reporting the receptionist for her insensitive, inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour. It might at least make her think twice before she treats somebody else in the same way.
Last edited: 06 December 2016 13:25:58
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I agree with Dove and Topbird. That woman needs some training in semiprofessional and sensitivity and respect. I would have been tempted to say so loud enough for the others in the waiting room to hear so she knows what it feels like to be humiliated.
Gorgeous start to the day here. 7C at 9:30 and a heavy dew but no frost. Doggies ecstatic to be home again and have just been out on their favourite walk after "helping" OH all morning with bagging up his piles of leaves..
Kittens off to the vet again this pm to see about their flu as they both have it, of course. Not at all impressed with the animal rescue people so far -" oh, cat flu, nothing serious"!! Well it is, in kittens.
Meanwhile, I have been sorting out a pattern to make Possum a party/Xmas dress after she showed me one she liked whilst out window shopping on the way to the Xmas market - black lace over black satin, simple shape.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Don't know where semi came from in professional above. Online dictionary?
Vet not impressed with animal rescue people homing sick kittens either. Harumph! They are now to have antibiotics for 10 days in case it's the bacterial form of flu as well as steam inhalations 4 times a day for 7 days to clear up their respiratory wotsits. No menthol because it can be fatal for dogs and cats as it closes up their airways. Did not know that! Keep indoors till all healed and they've had their jabs. Loads of fun.
At least they're eating and playing and purring between sleeps and sneezes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Morning all
Cold & foggy here but the sun is making an effort to break through.
Today I need to have a good clear up, then sort the freezer to try to make some space, then ironing then light the fire & write C cards with some dreadful Channel 5 Xmas film on in the background.
However, writing cards may prove difficult as I will have fingers crossed on both hands.
One for Clari - hope the job situation works out - intrigued as to what it might be
The other for DD. Well done for keeping your nerve re the price. Have no idea how French conveyancing works but I really hope it works out for you
Fairy - nice to see you. Hope the wrist starts to improve soon - we miss you
Must get on SYL
Harrumph! Could try harder
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all .
Coal face at 12 to-day. Hey ho.
Lots to do in the garden and OH has a small mountain of laundry to deal with before he starts work tomorrow.
Still awake at 5 this morning. Post holiday blues.
DD great news and a great start. Look at the progress you and Charlie have made this year, and next year will be yet more progress. x
Morning all
Good to see you Fairy....not yet atop a Christmas tree?
Long queues ahead from now Hosta...keep smiling.
Yesterday the fog here was awful. Proper pea soup and using the whirly orange light on the top of the truck to make sure when I was on the country lanes people had a damn good chance of spotting me.
Today it is just .... grey.
Well there I was sat at family planning when I heard a voice I recognised. A friend who died last year made a fire safety video and it was him in all his glory telling people to know their fire escape routes. It completely took me by surprise and I was so close to bursting into tears when fortunately the suffering of others cheered my mood no end.
Imagine this...
Teenager boy enters family planning clinic, looks like bambi and scuttles up to the reception
Boy: can I have some *mumble mumble mumble*
Receptionist: some what?
Boy: *mumble mumble mumble*
Receptionist: (rather more loudly than you'd think needed) Oh! You mean CONDOMS. Do you want a selection pack of CONDOMS or just the ordinary CONDOMS?
Boy: (goes bright purple in the face) *mumble mumble*
Receptionist: (hands over a carrier bag full: seriously she must really over estimate this poor boys stamina!)
Boy: (makes for fast escape)
Receptionist: HAVE A NICE AFTERNOON!
All patients in reception:burst into laughing
With that lot even if he's making balloon animals he's guaranteed of a good something
Oh bless him! That is awful!!! There he is trying to be responsible and she humiliates him.
Would she have treated an adult like that?
Will he ever dare go back or recommend it to a friend?
If that's her approach to her job what's her attitude to confidentiality etc? Will he now be the subject of her jokes in the pub?
Appalling!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I found it most odd that he even needs to go to family planning for condoms. Aside from the whole idea that a baby is a lot more expensive for the NHS to fund rather than condoms (in an effort not to get side tracked with why doesn't he just buy them himself and save the NHS money)... surely this is the kind of thing a pharmacist could deal with? Or even a free vending machine on the wall.
I go to the local library for my hearing aid batteries rather than trek to the (not very) local hospital so its not like they're against outsourcing.
Confidentiality is something I have always found lacking at this hospital: if the person behind me in the queue doesn't know enough details to steal my identity it usually means that the receptionist hasn't gotten round to that bit of the questionnaire yet.
It was bad enough when I was a teenager and had to go into a small shop and had to ask the (male) assistant for some Dr White's or Tampax (can't remember which). He then shouted to his wife to get some from out the back.
So the whole of the shop knew about my menstrual cycle. At about 14 that was very embarrassing.
But that was in a corner shop over 40 years ago. Very, very wrong that a young lad trying to 'do the right thing' was made to feel silly, embarrassed and, quite possibly, ashamed in a medical facility in this day and age.
I'm afraid I would consider reporting the receptionist for her insensitive, inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour. It might at least make her think twice before she treats somebody else in the same way.
Last edited: 06 December 2016 13:25:58
I agree with Dove and Topbird. That woman needs some training in semiprofessional and sensitivity and respect. I would have been tempted to say so loud enough for the others in the waiting room to hear so she knows what it feels like to be humiliated.
Gorgeous start to the day here. 7C at 9:30 and a heavy dew but no frost. Doggies ecstatic to be home again and have just been out on their favourite walk after "helping" OH all morning with bagging up his piles of leaves..
Kittens off to the vet again this pm to see about their flu as they both have it, of course. Not at all impressed with the animal rescue people so far -" oh, cat flu, nothing serious"!! Well it is, in kittens.
Meanwhile, I have been sorting out a pattern to make Possum a party/Xmas dress after she showed me one she liked whilst out window shopping on the way to the Xmas market - black lace over black satin, simple shape.
Don't know where semi came from in professional above. Online dictionary?
Vet not impressed with animal rescue people homing sick kittens either. Harumph! They are now to have antibiotics for 10 days in case it's the bacterial form of flu as well as steam inhalations 4 times a day for 7 days to clear up their respiratory wotsits. No menthol because it can be fatal for dogs and cats as it closes up their airways. Did not know that! Keep indoors till all healed and they've had their jabs. Loads of fun.
At least they're eating and playing and purring between sleeps and sneezes.