Pieman Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 6 hours ago, meggersdog said: Went to see a ploughing competion at Little Bytham" that's about 20 miles away. That's the point on the East Coast main line where Mallard broke the world steam speed record in 1938, which it still holds. A pub in the village was named The Mallard in honour of the event but I'm not sure it's still there. Just thought I'd tell you that for no real reason. (edit) Just looked on Streetview - it's now a private house instead of a pub, but it is named Mallard House. Remspoor, meggersdog, Yoss and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 14 hours ago, anonymous user said: Biggest problem recently has been lack of pharmacist on premises so unable to give anything out until they come in (locum) She has them delivered so that isn't really a problem. She did used to collect them but more often than not they would be short of some items so she ended up having to go daily instead of once a month. I have been to collect on occasion and had to go to the GP and two hospitals , one twenty miles away, to collect prescriptions then two pharmacies for them to be filled. Even then there were shortages. And late wife's Kindle died. It has been unable to display pictures for a couple of months, then just stopped doing anything. No response to any of the keys or buttons. Took the battery out and the page it stopped on is still displayed, two days on. Replacing the battery does nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Have you tried using pharmacy2U ? I used to spend what felt like days walking back & forth between the surgery & the chemist, each blaming the other for the lack of my very simple prescription. Although you have to order in plenty oif time, they've not fucked up in five years or more. Its NHS & its free. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Finally managed to get MK Council to supply a replacement green waste bin for our one that was nicked a couple of months ago. Yay! Except they've replaced a full size wheelie bin with this thing. That's going to be good for about 2/3rds of a lawn's worth of clippings if that. Oh well, it's better than nothing I guess! Also, despite the roofing work above one area being completed at the end of last week we still have water getting in there. Which means the flashing or the wood panelling above the conservatory is shot as well. Deep joy...so the £31K and counting re-roofing hasn't actually done a damned thing to fix the really annoying water ingress problem we were aware of. Yay! Additional: Migraines can get in the sodding sea. myglaren, Remspoor, Datsuncog and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Our wonderful Liverpool council is thinking of extending it parking charges period from 6pm to 11pm ... Whoopie 6pm onwards is the only time I go in unless my son is with me and has his blue badge . Otherwise its the bus or train which sort of seriously curtails my shopping carrying capacity thanks to my op scars. Not only that the traffic system is a absolute shambles , every junction has a traffic light system that is always on red .the lime Street chaos that has cut the town in half ,the strand "improvements". Which again my op scars kick off with all the clutch work ... No wonder the shops are dying ..and Amazon etc is popular ... Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Vesta chow mein. I fancied a time warp 1970's experience to go with rampant inflation and strikes. Imagine my disgust when I discovered the crispy noodles have been replaced with lentil curls that look like ingrown toe nails. Stop the world. I want to get off. MiniMinorMk3, Remspoor, myglaren and 1 other 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 8 hours ago, MikeR said: Our wonderful Liverpool council is thinking of extending it parking charges period from 6pm to 11pm ... Whoopie 6pm onwards is the only time I go in unless my son is with me and has his blue badge . Otherwise its the bus or train which sort of seriously curtails my shopping carrying capacity thanks to my op scars. Not only that the traffic system is a absolute shambles , every junction has a traffic light system that is always on red .the lime Street chaos that has cut the town in half ,the strand "improvements". Which again my op scars kick off with all the clutch work ... No wonder the shops are dying ..and Amazon etc is popular ... And for today's trip , got caught up in the aftermath of yet another accident at Switch island !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Bren said: Vesta chow mein. I fancied a time warp 1970's experience to go with rampant inflation and strikes. Imagine my disgust when I discovered the crispy noodles have been replaced with lentil curls that look like ingrown toe nails. Stop the world. I want to get off. I got one a couple of years ago, out of curiosity. Crispy noodles were just as I remembered, yummy. The rest was pretty shite tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 11 hours ago, MikeR said: Our wonderful Liverpool council is thinking of extending it parking charges period from 6pm to 11pm ... Whoopie 6pm onwards is the only time I go in unless my son is with me and has his blue badge . Otherwise its the bus or train which sort of seriously curtails my shopping carrying capacity thanks to my op scars. Not only that the traffic system is a absolute shambles , every junction has a traffic light system that is always on red .the lime Street chaos that has cut the town in half ,the strand "improvements". Which again my op scars kick off with all the clutch work ... No wonder the shops are dying ..and Amazon etc is popular ... Yep all at it ,few years time it will be why is the centre centre a ghost town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Medical bastard AnnoyingPentium, twosmoke300, Saabnut and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 A very minor grump, but still waiting…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMotor Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Holy crap @hairnet. You OK dude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 7 hours ago, hairnet said: Medical bastard yeah so i wont bore you with the pictures (need to vent) - bear with me went in for routine blood test and chat with head honcho for medical - and the blood test fine didnt take long had to wait almost an hour for head honcho (dont know why there was hour between the appts as the blood test took 30 secs lol) they checked the test while i was there as its very quick oh yer calcium is low again - not as low as last time (hospital visit) but low enuff you need to stay in so we can bag you again (steady) as soon as this happened everyone got told - including work - tried to find out how big the bag was gonna be (100ml an hour - will take 10 hours) if it was smol 3 hours med bag 6 - full litre 10 (omg im gonna be sooo bored lol) ive been talking the tablets they gave me since the last time but its still not right originally it shoulda been calc tabs and vit d cos it went up but not enuff hence tabs - but they didnt give me the vit d - the calc tabs has this in (it says on the packet) so i didnt take much notice the hospital gave the calc tabs and said pick up the vit d via script from your gp ok - went in coupla days later and no had blood test after that and they said did you get the d tabs - no asked and they said no more emails to gp from hosp thats happened twice more - i keep asking - the hosp speak to the gp and still nothing (they also rang them on one occasion) so today finally the hosp said fuckit we'll give you the d tabs - they have and omg its one a week how strong must they be gp will be visited tomorrow - to quote snap - i will attack and you dont want that (hey fire me im annoyed and tired) and asked wheres all me scripts and why havent you called me in to monitor me as the hospital asked hosp have told me to get gp to book me in for a blood test (sneaky) so its been a long day (there at 8 got released at 8 but hopefully level will go back to normal (they tested me 4 times today for blood pressure and despite whats been going on its 125/80 3 times ecg was fine too all other levels are fine - which is odd - think now its the treatment thats sent it funny fuck medical - but its getting there - slowly cant fault the hospital - they WILL be getting a pressie Datsuncog, JMotor, Sunny Jim and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 37 minutes ago, richardmorris said: A very minor grump, but still waiting…. id have gone and fetched it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Just watching a cop programme, drug dealer tried to drive off while a copper has his hand in the window dragging him up the road, cop manages to get the keys out Matey boy legs it, copper gets him trapped in an alleyway and the cunt lunges at him with a broken bottle 16 month suspended sentence, 250 hours of unpaid work he'll probably never turn up for and a tag It's no wonder they try and escape, what's to lose, fucks sake myglaren and grizgut 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 3 hours ago, richardmorris said: A very minor grump, but still waiting…. Have you got it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 5 hours ago, High Jetter said: Have you got it yet? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Wack said: Just watching a cop programme, drug dealer tried to drive off while a copper has his hand in the window dragging him up the road, cop manages to get the keys out Matey boy legs it, copper gets him trapped in an alleyway and the cunt lunges at him with a broken bottle 16 month suspended sentence, 250 hours of unpaid work he'll probably never turn up for and a tag It's no wonder they try and escape, what's to lose, fucks sake People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it. Dyslexic Viking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 29 minutes ago, myglaren said: People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it. Hopefully grizgut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Anyone any idea what the crack is with the 'angry farmer' at Rufford Ford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Maybe he's finally had enough of the place becoming a tourist attraction for attention-seeking wankers. It's the North Midlands equivalent of the Abbey Road zebra crossing, except this place doesn't have any historical significance and is just "hurrr there's a camera there, let's act like a dick so we get on the internet". myglaren, MiniMinorMk3, beko1987 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 On 11/14/2022 at 2:46 PM, iainrcz said: No internet or phone all weekend, nearly an hour on hold to moan and still haven't spoken to a cunt about it. Cable had failed outside house. New cable and router, now connection is slow as fuck. According to Shell my line supports 4mbps, even though before the problem I was getting from 11 - 14 🙄 myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 4 hours ago, myglaren said: People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it. "sarge he's fallen down the stairs again!" Dyslexic Viking, High Jetter, stendec and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 That M58 to M6 NB junction , played it safe today and stayed behind the artic on the inside lane , except the stupid bint in the SUV who came up the outside lane , got beside me , and proceeded to panic when she could not join the M6 , forcing me onto the remains of the hard shoulder and a rapidly approaching bridge of doom support , cue constant horns and high beam ,and looks of alarm that some one would do such a thing to a SUV driver , but some dabbing of the brakes and beating the 66 horses into action and we were able to lock eyes for a long dirty look ... And my dash cam played up again , some how it corrupted the new SD card , looks like it runs out of battery when taking 2 minutes to shut down and crashes out . Now told to shut down in 10 secs and seems ok .. For now ... myglaren and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, Wack said: Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts I tried that on Wednesday for the first time. Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage. The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week. The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain. He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels. Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it? myglaren, GrumpiusMaximus and Yoss 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan29 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said: I tried that on Wednesday for the first time. Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage. The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week. The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain. He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels. Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it? I tried it about a year ago and I don't think the postie had been briefed on it at all! He seemed completely surprised by the whole idea. It all worked fine but it seemed like extra hassle for him so I haven't done it again since. myglaren and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Datsuncog said: I tried that on Wednesday for the first time. Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage. The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week. The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain. He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels. Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it? I was a bit pissed off about having to drive into town at 5pm on a Friday , I don't really think posties are cunts, it's a tough job being out in all weathers I assumed they'd be coming in a van so I wouldn't have been happy if he'd been carrying it round in a downpour. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Any thoughts on this at all @Yoss? Seems like yet another burden you don't need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 13 hours ago, richardmorris said: No. Just delivered, their third attempt was 6 to 8 tonight. Not sure the doormat is my safe place though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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