What are you all up to
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Here you are TW 💷💸😁. Many thanks.
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Cheers, Millie. Most folk say "cheque's in the post"🙄. I'll spend it wisely😂
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Great that the terrier has re appeared Brue. It’s one of my worst nightmares, and why I won’t have a small dog. BIL had a fabulous Patterdale Cross, took it on holiday, down a hole, and yes it disappeared. He spent days and days searching for it, along with lots of other family and friends, but it never came home. Heartbreaking, it was a much loved pet. 😢
Has to be a ruddy great big hole for an Airedale, so we have never gone smaller. That said, the mineshafts around the Marazion Site could and did swallow anything, quite a few unwary folks had incidents around there and other places in Cornwall.
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DEBSC, More memories !! Back in the early 60's we had a regular tour in the camping world !! We met up at about 6pm with fully packed motorcycles both singles and combos, a couple of scooters and me bringing up the rear { like a fox hunt whipper ~ in } in my trusty A35 van !! We used a regular site up Kendal way which was a l-o-n-g drag since M6 stopped near Preston and we could not even use that due to a couple of lads still under L~Plate laws, so up the A6 it was !! Quick Tent erections, ears polished then into the local pub for pie and pint meals !! We could only do this thru the high summer because we formed 80% of our Sunday-League footy team !! Church Youth Clubs have a lot to answer for !!
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Do you know what time it was finally opened, as we were very fortunate to just get through? Have you any idea of the outcome, it didn't look good as we passed.😞
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A couple of gent!e walks today, up an Hamps(field) Fell in the morning and along the prom at Grange in the afternoon. I got caught out, in t-shirt and thin sweater, while taking Flyte for his evening walk, when a heavy and prolonged rain shower passed through. Just had another now so probably will be kept awake with raindrops falling off the trees that overhang the pitches here. I've to brave the weather again short!y when heading out for our last walk.
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Coo, I love Campari. And Mum still likes Spam🤣 Nice to see so many events back up and in full swing. We are hoping to watch Tour of Britain next month, three stages that are possibles.
Off to sort out Mum shortly. Then OH has decreed “today is the day”. Back on his bike, out for a proper ride, me in attendance. It’s questionable who will be looking after who, given my record of leaving bits of skin wherever we go, but hopefully, once we have climbed up and down a bit, we can use some of the Don Valley/TPT links, and not venture too far from home. 🤞😁
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Spam fritters for tea?!
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Visiting dog being mainly good but for some reason yesterday evening he had a really naughty hour or so, was it the blustery wind??! Very frustrating as he was in a ‘you aren’t going to catch me’ mode running around the garden with my flower pot cuttings and looking extremely pleased with himself. Only destroyed one! Had an unbelievable report from my niece, her husband is a GP, and sent me this newspaper bit about one of our prospective Prime Ministers (the female one!). Do politicians know what Doctors are really for?! Unbelievable. As if it isn’t hard enough already to get an appointment with a GP.
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I think the saying-‘divorced from reality’ is glaringly obvious. This is not a party political comment-I am apolitical I dislike & distrust every one of them😤
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You can hardly get to see a doctor when you are ill, not sure clogging the surgery up with what is a job for social services is going to help? I suppose it is possible that people with certain conditions may need extra warmth and a doctor may need to confirm that but wouldn't that be the case now rather than something new?
David
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I think I'd use some so called newspapers as bin liners...!
Campari and Spam. Millie OH might end up with a spam sandwich. I just can't eat it. I went on a fantastic school camping trip all round France as a teenager. We did have some lovely French food but as a basic camp survival kit we lived on scrambled egg with chopped spam, never again, vive le spam, non!
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When Dad was ill in his final couple of years, we had a GP happy to come out to check him over at home on a monthly basis. (That lasted two months, we then went to three monthly checks, then finally “ oh you will contact us if you need us🤨) In passing GP did say that it was best to keep house at 20c minimum, because he couldn’t move around much. We already knew this, common sense really.
Personally, I think what is lacking amongst a lot of folks is the capacity to sort things out for themselves more, not rely upon one service or another to live their lives for them, one way or another. Social services and GPs, hospitals, should be last resort when you simply cannot do anything more for yourself or have no one willing to help. That’s what they are really for.
The state of our local A&E when I took my sister for an emergency x ray last month was shocking. Outing all those drunk, drugged and too huge to function properly would have emptied it by three quarters. Nine hours later as soon as she had no broken bones confirmed (the one thing we couldn’t do at home) I collected her. Security were having to drag one man around out of the way as he refused to get up off floor. Waste of space. I can’t help but think that today’s politicians are wooing the easy, ill informed, sound bite dependent, believers of every sensationalist headline thicko’s out there, and so we get government to match. No idea, no morals, all me, me, me.
I caught an interview with David Owen the other day. Quite how this country has lost the intelligent, knowledgeable calibre of his generation of politicians, of all parties, is beyond me. Most of what what we have representing us at the highest levels now make me fear for the future of this country.
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Spam fritters oh yummy. Haven’t had them in years.
Shortly before our Dad passed away he was taken to A&E on a Saturday night. My brother and I were called by his Home. The Dr said did we really want to wait with him cos it could be hours before he was seen, as he had dementia and was distressed we said we definitely did. This was before covid. After hours of seeing drunk and drugged people, some shouting and raving, being seen before Dad I had to calm my brother as well as Dad. But what can staff do, they can’t refuse to see to them. Just a sad state of society and a horrible eye opener. But it was distressing when our old Dad desperately needed to be seen through no fault of his own.
Not even going to mention politics, don’t want to get this thread shut down.
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Agree Debsc. My post wasn’t intended o be political, more the state of how some folks live nowadays. I really feel for the staff. We actually had someone murdered in our local A&E not so long ago, unbelievable and shocking.
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Neither was mine political - just incredulous. I get frustrated with trying to see a GP but (with some inside knowledge) understand some of the issues. Although, as was mentioned somewhere here the other day, we can’t remember being given ‘help’ in the 70’s, and we really struggled with the interest rates, high mortgage and two small boys, we just faced up and had to manage for ourselves.
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No, I didn’t take yours as political heddlo, just societal, as you say incredulous.,
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An incredulous tale follows. You may need to sit down as it is shocking.
A relative of mine had a bad turn one afternoon and ended up in A&E. When he arrived he was shown straight in to see a nurse. A doctor saw him within 5 minutes. He was given a cup of tea by a nurse (and some biscuits) and his condition, not life threatening, was diagnosed within a very short time.
The reason for all of this super efficiency? He was the only one in A&E in the middle of a normal day because the local football team, Liverpool, were due to kick off in the F.A.Cup final against Chelsea. Not a single other person was waiting to be attended to. The nurse admitted that it had been like that most of the afternoon but would probably get busy just after final whistle. She did say that she hated football but just once in a while she could see the plus points of the game!
No malingerers, no drunks (that would come later), less cars on the road so no accidents. Nobody calling into A&E because they had a runny nose.Ironically on the way out he met his neighbour coming in. The neighbour had cut his hand on the bottle opener whilst getting ready to watch the match.
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That was me heddlo. Yes we were left to get on with things on our own and one way or another we managed.
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forgot to say we met up on Friday night for the trip ooop north . 
