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Ah yes, I remember now. Nice area. 👍
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That's really bad luck JVB. I do hope things improve for you now and that you have a lovely restful time at FM.
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JVB
I noticed on the other "deposit thread" that you may be looking for CLs within your area with showers that your good lady can use. There's only 2 that I can positively recommend as having a walk in shower and 1 that has dedicated disabled facility but might not suit for getting from your unit to the facilities.
Burnt Ash Farm, Minchinhampton (589 in current S.D.) and Fishers Field in Suffolk (1413). both have walk in showers.
Hillhouse Farm in Halesworth Suffolk (1404) has disabled facilities and combined toilet and shower room. The site is lovely as are the owners but it is a bit steep from bottom of the site to top (where the toilet is).
We've stayed at all three of the above which are in reasonable driving distance from you. There are others but not sure how far you'd want to travel.
Hope this helps.
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Perhaps it's not so much a case of reducing staff but difficulties with recruiting them in the first place? I have never used the hand held terminals in Tesco but have been using them in Waitrose for as long as they have had them, best part of 20 years probably(just checked, introduced in 1995). It's a super system, especially at Christmas and you get the bags packed how you want them! The problem for the supermarkets is that they are open to abuse, hence the rechecks. Although having said that I think Waitrose owe me money as I quite often scan too many items. A couple of weeks ago I scanned three bottles of milk but we only had two!!!
David
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You could well be right about recruitment DK, although I have heard/ read of lots of people like former Carers switching to working for supermarkets, as the pay is better, the work less stressful and the work isn’t as hard, but who knows🤷♀️
They do require you to focus though I agree, otherwise you can make mistakes. I can first remember seeing them in Waitrose, a long time ago.One for JV, lovely site just outside Pickering, with huge wet room, underfloor heating in loo blocks as well….Cliff Farm. Some pitches very short walk to facilities. Drive over MH waste as well. Has around 30 pitches nowadays, nice hardworking owners, always very well kept.
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Our Grand Daughter works at Tesco to help pay for her uni costs ,she said some time ago that Tesco were going to reduce staff operated till and increase self operated and scan as you shop till areas with more staff in these areas to cut down on fraud
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Here’s a link JV. https://www.clifffarmholidays.com/caravan-park
It used to be a CL, but expanded, then expanded again around 8 years ago. It was the very first site we took our MH, in December. Lovely facilities, warm even in the depths of a Yorkshire Winter, and it’s perfectly placed to see Yorkshire at is finest, being on the edge of the NY Moors, and between the lovely towns of Helmsley and Pickering. And of course, the NYM Railway👍
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Sorry to read of your problems, JVB, just hope that's the end of them now. Enjoy your stay at FM.
Dry, warm clammy day at home. Took the van in to dealer's for odd jobs to be fixed. Was asked when did we want to collect it as they were 3 guys down, it being holiday time. Arranged to pick it up Friday. Went for walk along by the shore on the way home before doing some weeding in the garden before and after lunch. Got phone call about 2:30 from dealer's that the van was ready for collection, so back up the road, pick van up and home and parked up within the hour.
Glad to read that your car went through it's MOT, Francis. I take mine on Friday to get it's 6 yr services and the MOT done. It will definitely turn out to be an expensive experience!😥
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That was good service Nellie, hope the snags are fixed now.
We are making plans, started cleaning out MH, and putting in stuff for a longer trip. I gave it a quick tidy after we got home from our last trip, and washed all that needed washing, so it’s really just a freshen up. Won’t be packing yet though, will look at weather to get a realistic idea of what to take with us, we like to travel as light as possible. Hope we manage to get a couple of days on the beach, ages since we swam in the sea. Still lovely and warm here most of day, but I think it might rain tomorrow.
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David K Diabetes Blood Sugar Monitors.
I've seen ads for these items David but I'm not too sure How well they will be accepted !! I'm not keen, myself, on having to check my fone for data ~~ I much would rather plant myself in a quiet corner and use " older " tech !! I can see tho' that some folk will start getting true readings and not just what they think Nursey wants to hear, and that could only be good for the patient !!
B
TtDA ~~ Just be careful which beaches you swim or paddle from -- some very dodgy water companies out there !!
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Thanks for that ttda - will have a look at it. We were in Sinnington on Saturday and had lunch in the Fox and Hounds to celebrate Ros's birthday - lovely part of our county!
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Brian
It's probably the way forward for all sorts of reasons. What Margaret finds is that if she has a sudden fall in sugar levels by the time she realises and does a normal test it often needs quite a lot of action to bring the levels back up. We would hope the monitor would pre-warn you of such an incident? She also gets fed up with sticking needles in her fingers to check her levels. However all this is academic at the minute as we can't get the company to communicate with us because we put in out landline number rather than the mobile number and its taken some working out so we will try again, and again!!!
David
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Brian and David we know a friend over here who has white disk on his arm like Teresa May and carries a very small display with him that he can look at as and when he wants, no mobile phone needed seems a good system, David good luck with sorting Margaret's out, my OH is type 2 but does use a prod as he calls it of an insulin pen each morning as prescribed by the doctor it is a long acting insulin and so far ok he has had it about 3 years now.
Well a hot day forecast 38C and hopefully the last hot day for this summer, so back to inside chores.
Had some sad news last night our friend who runs a campsite at Obterre his mother passed away yesterday after having a massive stroke last Wednesday and she would have been 100 at end of October and funeral next Monday at nearest Crematorium is 55km just outside Tours.
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Please don’t get me started on supermarkets reducing checkouts, it brings out my soapbox and my ranting mode. These places make huge profits and yet they expect me to do the work they previously paid staff to do. Why should I be expected to check my groceries out. Also I prefer to keep people in a job and will Always go to the checkout. And, for some elderly folk the checkout person might be the only person they speak to all day.
And banks! Long gone are the days when I popped in and one of the lovely lady tellers said Hello Mrs **** how are you today? Just take yesterday as an example. Went in with three cheques, you can’t go to the only teller now left working you have to use a machine. One cheque stopped the others going through, I told the standing around ‘helper person’ reply, oh it should work, implied I had done something wrong, he tried 3 times, still didn’t work, so off he went and came back 5 min later with the receipt. All these places just want to save money by employing less staff. Sorry for the rant I know I’m getting old but IMO it’s all backward steps in customer service.
PS our Nationwide in town still has teller type staff, the place is always busy with customers and I know of at least 3 people who have changed their bank accounts to them because of this. People do vote with their feet.
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DEBSC, you rant away as much as you like !! If nothing else it should a] lower your blood pressure b] start another 'mini-stream' on this thread c] give us all something to read, the price of newspapers & magazines today growl grumble groan !!
Had a short [!] discussion with the Door-minder at my local bank 'cos I went inside to use one of the cash machines. Told there was 'one outside free Sir'. As if I was fool enough to obtain and count cash in a busy street when there was ample room inside with more security grrrrr !
Took aged, 91-year old, sister into her bank to transfer some money between her accounts { well It's the way she has worked for fifty-odd years & no point in changing now } only took them 45 minutes to perform the tasks and was she offered a seat ? nah was she hell as like more grrrrrs so I planted her at one of the available desks to safely pack away her paperwork and get her breath back before the struggle to get her in the Ducato !
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Having a sneaky break as OH is doing a second visit to West Bay this week, this time with holidaying elder daughter etc in tow and extra dog I had a hair appointment and didn't want to miss it before we have a short break.
Sad that we've lost so much human interaction due to mechanisation, done first to improve the human lot and now to make up for lack of working age humans. Every place I go I see "staff required." We had an advert through our door for a food factory this morning, needing operatives, £11.25 per hour will that pay bills? Hard to say. I noticed I'm paying nearly a £1 more for butter (not to mentioned the dreaded lurpak price hikes!?)
However we've never had so much food in our house, the Covid effect, stocking up too much. So have decided we must work our way through it...dried beans anyone?!
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RK
I think Margaret would be happy with one jab a day
I assume the long lasting one your friend takes is Lantus? Margaret takes that at night but rapid insulin three times a day. I think you have a choice of a small monitor or by doing via a Smartphone. The latter is probably more convenient if you are used to carrying the phone everywhere. Margaret has been using insulin for about seven years now. It started when she had her heart bypass as during the op and immediate recovery the only way they could control anything was giving her insulin Intravenously, she had previously only taken tablets. Once started it seems they didn't want her to go back!David
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Lovely site, open all year. It’s a great location for that part of Yorkshire. We use a couple of nice CLs as well up on Moors.
Thanks for the beach warning ABM. We are always careful where we swim. Surfers Against Sewage do a brilliant job of monitoring things, scandalous that it still goes on.
Sad news for you RK, but 100 is a good age. Just been reading about poor Rab Wardell (cyclist) Cardiac arrest, never regained consciousness. Super-fit and only 37 years old.
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I quite welcome the introduction of self scanning in shops. Whilst I imagine many will think that shops only do it to save on staffing costs the other side of the coin is that it offers customers more choice. As I mentioned we use Quick Check in Waitrose for our weekly shop. We sign onto the system and are issued with a scanner. (You have to have a My Waitrose card to use a scanner but you can self scan at the till without but that only really works if you only have a few items) We merrily go around the shop scanning our shopping and packing as we go. When we finish we go to the terminal scan a barcode to indicate we have finished shopping and all the items are automatically recalled at the till. In most cases that is the end of it and you just pay and off you go. So no need to load everything on the conveyor belt and repack at the end of the transaction. The real convenience is not having to unload and repack. Shops also do a lot of studies on customer behaviour and increasing one type seems to be quite numerous is the time poor customer who is in a rush so being able to self scan can mean they can shop more quickly.
David
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Thanks Tda a good age and she was always cheerful and ready for a chat and used to walk around the site 3 to 4 times a day. Awful for the young cyclist and his partner tried to save him as well.
DK my OH said he is on Lantus insulin pen and said his sister also type 2 but tablets only but they do things a bit different here.
The large LeClerc's have a scanning system and self checkouts which we do not like but our local stores Carrfour and Utile only have normal checkouts as they are much smaller.
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DK, the first time I saw someone with one of those discs on their arm, was on a cruise round the med in Feb 2020. He was Dutch, he scanned it before ordering his food, then awhile after eating he did it again. He told us to see if he was OK for another glass of wine or not. At first we did wonder what he was doing, looked funny putting his phone up against his arm then smiling and pouring another glass.
I've used the scanners in Tesco twice when they first came out. If I had to I would use them again but I tend to dither when shopping and forget to scan 😲 I don't mind going through the checkouts especially in Aldi where they are so fast. The self service tils though do my head in, we spend more time waiting for someone to come and over ride the stupid machine than we do shopping. Only use them for small shops.
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Sad news for you RK, but 100 is a good age. Just been reading about poor Rab Wardell (cyclist) Cardiac arrest, never regained consciousness. Super-fit and only 37 years old.
I read that too Ttda. Rob had just won a competition at the weekend as well. It must have been so distressing for his other half, Katie Archibald, to have to deal with.
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As regards self scanners in supermarkets - I have a friend who lives on her own and hates self scanners and self check outs as she says that a quick chat with the person on the till is possibly the only human interaction she gets that day. I hate self scanners as like Tammy has said I spend more time waiting for someone to come and help than I do shopping and I hate the way they keep shouting at you telling you that there is an 'unexpected item in the bagging area' and please hurry and take all your items from the bagging area while you are trying to put your card and purse away. Boots the Chemist are the worst as so many items seem to need someone to come and verify that you can buy them
. As for banks - like someone else mentioned Nationwide are the best as they have their desks 'manned' so you can get personal attention and no-one so far has tried to 'persuade' me to use the cash machine outside. I always use the machine inside so I can put my money away before I venture forth.
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I love the self scanners in supermarkets, mainly because I hate the “in the basket, out the basket, back in the basket thing” thing, but wouldn’t want to see the loss of personal interaction in other shops. All I want to do in a supermarket is get in and out as quickly as possible, but it is nice to chat in the specialist, independent shops. We are still using home delivery at the moment for a big shop.
Busy afternoon here, and warm work. Decided to jet wash patio, which of course involved moving furniture and lots of pots, but it’s looking good now, another delayed task completed. Just got it in before hosepipe ban starts tomorrow. Rain forecast this evening, but no signs yet.
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