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DSB. When we stayed at Cayton we accessed the beach just over the road from the nearest point to the site. But it was a bit like the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Shirley Bassey because the road ends in mid air and you have to clamber down from the edge! However it's a good beach.
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🙂 Thanks Brue. I've taken a look on Google maps and the plan is to drive to the roundabout on the A165, and there looks like a beach car park that can be accessed from 'Filey Road' (the other side of the traffic island....). I think I'll give that a go. I think there is a beach cafe too - called Lucy's Beach Shack.... I'm always up for a hot dring and piece of cake!! 🤣🤣
David
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Access is a "bit" steep either end David but if you can manage it when the tide is out the beach is expansive. I was hoping to look for fossils on our visit but there had been cliff falls. We liked Cayton village and had a meal in one of the pubs, the beach cafes weren't open during our visit.
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As the site is 'newly refurbed', I guess it will take a while for it to become established. I think we've been lucky as it's not been windy this week..... there's certainly a bit of a chill in the breeze. There is a nice (low) fenced childrens 'park' in the centre on the main field (not suitable for ball games), although I suspect many will try and keep well clear during times when schools are shut.. 🤣🤣. The very open bit where the pitches are almost exclusively empty, is the extra 'upper field' (with its own toilet block). Only just a few vans at the top end. This field has, what looks like very high fenced basketball court, which I guess could be used for other ball games...???
David
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Out on a sunny dog walk this morning and met up with a neighbour who is giving a trainee guide dog a holiday whilst his full time trainers have a holiday! Lovely chunky retriever, quite lively but very friendly.
Frustrating M/H recall for OH and the airbags, the garage couldn't do both at once due to Autosleepers not being easy to contact. (Problems due to removal of windscreen blinds for passenger airbag.) But somehow you'd think this would be sorted before the vehicles arrive for the work. So another journey in a few weeks time.
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Frustrating start to the day. Margaret received a letter from the surgery asking her to make an appointment to speak to the doctor to discuss a letter from her optician. Far be it for me to add a little common sense here but rather than type a letter with a first class stamp why didn't the doctor just ring? So this morning we try to ring the surgery with the idea that we will make appointments for both of us as I am still having trouble with my right knee/leg. Our surgery, I learnt the other day, is now only doing telephone calls initially and the doctor will decide if a face to face appointment is necessary. When you ring at 8.00am it is always engaged so you have to try and try. An added complication is that we have a new set of DECT phones and I am not sure the signal is as good upstairs where we were phoning from. We got through a couple of times but then lost the connection! Anyway after nearly an hour we eventually got through only to be informed that all appointments had been allocated as they have a half day training day today. We will now have to leave it until Friday as other things are happening on Wednesday and Thursday. I think it might be easier to drive the mile to the surgery and make an appointment in person, providing the doctor doesn't try and ring whilst you are en route back home!
David
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My sympathies DavidK as I am hanging around today for a GP call to come through, the surgery phoned a week ago to say they would book it for me for test results from a month ago! At least it's better than the last time when I waited three months and a GP rang out of the blue one evening!
Although our surgery opens at 8am they don't take calls till 8.30am, I wonder if yours is similar?
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Brue
Ours opens the phone lines at 8.00am. Last week I had an early blood test due for 8.15am so I went a little earlier and even before they opened the doors of the surgery there was a queue, although not a massive one. There are several things I find frustrating about our surgery which pre COVID I had always thought was excellent. Firstly the level of communication of changes is seriously lacking. Even their website has incorrect information re appointments. When I was there waiting for my blood test I could hear an elderly couple having an animated discussion because they could not not an appointment to see the doctor but instead had to go home and wait for a phone call. The phone system only seems to accept 6 calls waiting at any one time which means you always get the engaged signal so you have to redial. You are almost shocked when someone answers the phone!
David
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Ros has had exactly the same problem. About three weeks ago, Meg managed to pull her over whilst out for a walk. She injured her back and it's got steadily worse since to the extent that she's having trouble moving at all. Whilst we were away, I managed to get her a telephone consultation with our GP (the only type that's available on-line). He prescribed some serious painkillers but advised her to come and see him if things didn't improve. We came back early to get the script (weather was dreadful anyway) but things aren't any better so she tried yesterday with no success in getting through. Managed to get through this morning - no appointments and our Dr is only working a half-day tomorrow and a full day on Friday. "No, I can't give you an appointment for either of those days - you'll have to ring up at 8.30 in the morning or on Friday". Yes - she'll do that - and by the time the phone is answered, all the appointments will have gone! It's not so long ago that if you were seriously ill, our Doctor would make time to see you - but not any more. What a dreadful state of affairs.
On top of that - I've got an appointment with a vascular consultant next week - for a 3 month follow up - after my operation which took place in January last year. What's that all about????
The NHS, sadly, is truly broken.
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Grrrrr.😡 I am biting my tongue refraining from commenting on the NHS at the moment. All I will say is that I think the population of the UK has sleepwalked into the current situation, there have been warning signs for decades. Sticking plasters applied, rather than a proper cross party commitment to sorting the whole shebang out properly. Heaven help the next generations if they aren’t earning a lot of money!
Nicer things😁 We are out for a night, on a lovely CL just North of Harrogate. Kites, curlews, owls and we have just seen our first swallows of the year. Beautiful day, we drove up late afternoon, usual mayhem on A1, but we just went with it. Harlow Carr for us tomorrow, then find something else to see on way back home…..
Glad you got to the Wirral WN. Had to chuckle at DSB’s photos of Cayton Bay. That’s how we love Club Sites, virtually empty🤣
Hoping for some colourful photos tomorrow, meantime here’s our view this evening…….
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We have always had pretty good service from our local NHS so I am reluctant to be over critical. What I perhaps don't understand is why things seemed to have changed so much since COVID which now basically the NHS is treating as being past its worse and thinking of it in terms being a similar problem to Flu. Why has our surgery not gone back to pre COVID ways of doing things especially around appointments? Does a phone consultation actually save time? It might I suppose if the doctor is only seeing in person a tiny number of the patients spoken to on the phone but I can see a danger there as it could be easy to miss things.
David
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I don’t have a problem with telephone appointments to be honest, although that said, our GPS are good at recognising if a surgery visit is required, and if so, they are usually quickly arranged. We have got to know our younger GP’s a bit better these last few months since Mum has been so ill, and I cannot fault any of the care and attention and help that has come our way these last five months. Ok, sometimes visits might not be on time, but they do happen. From what we have had related off the record to us, they do have to deal with a lot of trivia that really only requires a bit of self medication, and the number of no shows at the surgery is alarming. Some of the older GP’s at our practice have been seriously ill themselves at times as well.
The country has an ageing population, a credit to the NHS in some ways, but successive Governments have lacked the foresight to see that this would bring its own problems long term, and there hasn’t been the lightbulb planning that first set things up. Couple this with a seriously broken care system, (old age and chronically sick) and it’s a recipe for disaster. It’s immoral as far as I am concerned running Care Homes for profit. Almost everything, every institution, every supplier, some employers are trying to reap huge profits out of what should be a not for profit basic humanity service, designed to give help to everyone who needs it. It doesn’t have to be totally free, but heaven help the vast majority if things go private. It’s like going back in time.
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Recently my wife tried to make an appointment at our surgery, because she had a growth starting to appear on her cheek. After the obligatory first phonecall, the doctor wanted photographs sent , but somehow managed to prescribe medication !. Fast forward 5 phonecalls later problem still there , he thought he had better see her . The six calls took up over an hour , but diagnosed correctly within minutes of actually seeing her . Where is the logic in working like that ?. I'm not against triage phone calls as I think they have their place.but this to me just felt like "can't be bothered" .
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Yesterday we had to get some shopping done before moving down to the C&CC's Bakewell site, so only managed a visit to Plesington Prioy to view the gargoyles and then a couple of walks in Witton Park and a couple more from the CL. Easy drive today with no major holdups. We had booked a grass pitch but because of all the rain earlier in the month the site manager put on a hardstanding one, with a great view out over Middleton Dale. Site is about 1/3rd full, but many of the units on pitches are seasonal ones so it is very peaceful. It was a lovely sunny day with just a light breeze so we were ae to get the canopy erected without too much trouble.
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Good to see that you got away, tda,, and hope you had a good day at Harlow Carr. Which CL did you stay on, if you don't mind me asking?
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So good to hear AD and I hope you are progressing well. Our hospital experience is thankfully infrequent but my most recent was my hip replacement 18 months ago which, despite all you hear, was reasonably quick. Once we had tried all the physio and got a consultation with the surgeon about 9 months from memory, it was a 3 month wait for the operation. I must agree with you DK that I don’t understand why our GP surgery is still firing on half power, a telephone appointment is usually first, ok I can see why that is suitable in SOME cases but just seeing someone face to face is so much easier to have conversations.
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That's good to hear David, it's been the same for a friend of mine too. I think well funded and staffed local medical centres would solve a lot of issues but somehow the poor calculations a few years back have resulted in overstretched facilities and too few qualified staff. I suspect a lot of medical students don't see much glory in GP work but it's such an important part of keeping people well and out of hospital wherever possible.
Nellie it took ages for your photos to load, the website seems to be at fault but it looks interesting where you are staying.
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I have a friend whose daughter is a GP and she says that her daughter would dearly love to see more of her patients face to face but it is the BMA who are decreeing that it should be telephone appointments. I can understand that during the pandemic but now that things have settled down I would have thought that they would reverse that decision. We are fairly lucky in that our surgery is very good compared to some in our area. We still need to ring at 8,00am but if we press 1 we are held in a queue and we get a triage ring back when it is our turn - usually 15 to 20 minutes and things get taken from there. We have also worked out which number to press if we don't need an 'on the day' appointment. My friend whose husband was so desperately ill and then died just before Christmas and has also since fallen and broken her arm very badly is with the same surgery as us and her care has been exemplary. I think a big part of the problem with GP surgeries is that there is a desperate shortage of GPs.
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So pleased to hear that you had such good treatment AD. All good wishes for your recovery.
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That looks a really nice site nellie. I love the gargoyles as well.
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Our NHS trust staff haven’t been on strike and that includes the ambulance staff. My brothers operations and ongoing treatments have been going on apace. Since January I’ve had a number of tests and consultations which haven’t been subject to delay or change. Well done our local NHS Doctors, Nurses, Auxiliary and Ambulance personnel
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Double Whoopees !!
That Second Phone call that I mentioned has taken place == " Ducky two engines " has been MOT'ed and road tested A O K , so I have just struggled through the Dept of Transport system to restart the taxation ( groan ) so that I can collect it tomorrow.
Now for a quick lunch and a visit to Good Friends to cosset & cuddle them gently 'cos their little caravan, only just bought but fairly elderly, has failed in most conceivable ways -- water ingress into toilet area, visiting service engineer reluctant to do anything other than look at it. All that since his little fingers seemed to find some wood of the same consistency as half cooked egg-whites ! How do I wipe the silly grin off my face when commiserationg with them ?? Think I must find a couple of lemons to squeeze juice out of & soak a box of mini-tissues in.
Still I can only try, Giggle Titter, Snort
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Only just read your post, David. So very pleased that you have had such top notch treatment for your problems. It helps a great deal if the treatment is so much better than the publicity would lead us to expect. Keep on Keeping On .
Brian
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Following my minor DIY accident in Australia back in November, I have consistently failed to see our local GP. I have seen the "Clinician", the "Physio" and then the "Clinician" again. I now have an appointment next month with a Consultant at a hospital, all this without ever seeing my GP. Something is sadly wrong with the NHS GP situation.
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Apparently GPs are now called 'clinicians' MikeyA!
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