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Usually, although I've been to reform a number of times and besides expecting people to come at the beginning (you can turn up any time at orthodox and no one minds) still seemed to take just as long. I prefer the traditional service though, it's what I grew up with and something I'll always be able to connect with as a result.
Reply #4141. Nov 15 11, 8:12 PM
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| lesley153
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| You can still try other flavours - liberal, reform, progressive - and you will still being able to connect, but you'll only have to do it once, not ten times. The people in different places seem different too. |
Reply #4142. Nov 16 11, 6:35 AM
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bloodandsand
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Lesley, response #4140 might explain the problems you're having with the binmen. Try the green recycling bin instead!
Reply #4143. Nov 16 11, 2:51 PM
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| lesley153
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| Bev, that's genius - put my exes in the green bin for others to enjoy! As compost, probably. |
Reply #4144. Nov 16 11, 3:05 PM
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| lesley153
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For a while now, I've been getting my meds from a local independent pharmacy that emails the repeat prescriptions to the surgeries, picks them up, dispenses and delivers.
Yesterday afternoon, I rang for another month's supply of everything, and mentioned that I'd messed up, because I'd run out of one. I thought I had a week's worth of everything, but it looks like I have a week's worth of everything else.
I'll be OK for a few days, I said.
"No, you need to have them. I'll get some to you while you're waiting for the prescription to come."
This afternoon, there's someone at the door, bearing a fortnight's supply. Wonderful. They'll be on my Christmas card list. |
Reply #4145. Nov 17 11, 7:05 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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That's wonderful! My meds are dispensed via phone order, and I can pick them up the next day. Never a problem, but I try to renew BEFORE I'm out. Has happened, though...They get my stuff together, and ready when I arrive!
Reply #4146. Nov 17 11, 8:09 PM
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| lesley153
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| I've been close, but this is the first time I've managed to run out without realising. And the way they responded makes such a nice change from the nonsense we get from the supermarkets. |
Reply #4147. Nov 17 11, 8:19 PM
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Professer
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Thats good they are getting you some of what you are out of Lesley, a good pharmacy indeed.
My surgery now operates a online prescription order system, you select what items you require by ticking the box click send and 48 hours later is ready to collect.
i have been able due to my good doctor to have a months inhalers in hand each month jusst incase i cannot get straight away or forget to order.
Reply #4148. Nov 18 11, 2:37 AM
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rayven80
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It so nice to see really good customer service. It's sort of sad that stories like them bringing your medicine while you wait for your prescription are so uncommon.
Reply #4149. Nov 18 11, 1:29 PM
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Jazmee27
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I couldn't agree more
Reply #4150. Nov 18 11, 1:40 PM
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| lesley153
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It's wonderful to be able to tell people about this.
I've had a supermarket pharmacist sell me things without a peep. I say I have conjunctivitis, they don't ask a single question, just sell me an antibiotic ointment. Turns out I have hay fever. No wonder the antibiotics didn't work! Or tell me my two prescriptions will take an hour, because it's half-term next week (huh?), but it ends up taking them an hour and twenty minutes to tell me that one is ready and the other isn't in stock but they can get it in for tomorrow. (Don't bother.) Dear old Boots give me the third degree - Twenty Questions - over a packet of low-dose aspirins that I can pick up off the supermarket shelves. A couple of years ago, I gave up on the local branch of a chemist chain when they gave me the wrong meds every month for six months.
Hurrah for proper chemists! |
Reply #4151. Nov 18 11, 2:20 PM
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| lesley153
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Busy week, lots going on. A local woman went to Hampshire a few years ago, to be near her sons and grandchildren, and is now letting everyone know that she has motor neurone disease and is going into a home because she can no longer look after herself. She can't play her violin any more - she can't hold it.
Last night I met the beloved sprog at Waterloo, we went for a meal, I watched him playing in an orchestra, and I got home around midnight. (The concert was fun and the meal was delicious.)
Had to re-think my tube journey because there was someone under a train at Euston. The announcement said that the trains weren't stopping on either of the lines that go through Euston. It should have said that the trains weren't running. The escalators to the Victoria line were cordoned off, and a load of us thought we'd be dead clever and get to the Victoria line platform via the Piccadilly line platform. So you saw people going up the steps and then saw them coming down again...
This morning I was in the car at nine o'clock (honest!) for a routine GP appointment, and in an hour I'm going to catch up with an old friend whose mother-in-law died on Sunday. Unlike me, she is actually sad about it.
Lunch with another old friend on Friday and a local orchestral concert on Saturday. It's almost gadding!
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Many years ago, a young woman with a pushchair was asking strangers for money. She needed to give her landlord £10, she said, otherwise she'd be evicted. I bought her story and gave her a quid. She took it, looked down her nose at it, and said "Couldn't you make it ten?" I've always regretted not asking for the pound back. Didn't matter if I got it back or not - I should at least have asked.
The other day, I got chatting to a girl in the supermarket, as she was pricing food down at the end of the day, and got onto the subject of people being skint and relying on reductions. She said she couldn't take advantage of them herself. When you work till closing time, they've all been sold. She said her other half had walked out on her, leaving her to pay the rent by herself, with the result that she can't afford much food, or bus fares to work - and she hasn't got a bed. She's sleeping on something wooden.
I slung out a sofa recently but held on to the cushions (for no particular reason...) and asked her if she could use three cushions: yes please!
And then I thought I've had a folding single bed for so long I'd forgotten about it - would she like a single z-bed? And her answer:
"OK I was looking for double bed."
Any thoughts?
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Yesterday I told the man in the Post Office that I hadn't seen Merv since the first week in October. He sighed and said he'd served him today. Switched my phone on at ten, when last night's concert finished, and there he was, texting me about a television programme that was about to start. Yes, that's him - a joke, a newspaper cutting, a TV programme. Nothing changes.
Well that's not strictly true: I do. |
Reply #4152. Nov 24 11, 7:19 AM
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Professer
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Why are people like that Lesley it amazes me. I have done same as you at times but no longer am hardening up, People never seem grateful whatever you do for them or offer them free of charge.
Reply #4153. Nov 24 11, 7:59 AM
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| lesley153
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| Beats me how everyone is suddenly so entitled! |
Reply #4154. Nov 24 11, 10:40 AM
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Professer
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oops missed bit about Merv, hope he keeps his distance Lesley you do not need the hassles.
Reply #4155. Nov 24 11, 1:42 PM
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| lesley153
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True - I hope so too, and no I don't. The programme he wanted me to watch was supposedly a comedy programme, and he gave me a sample joke, one that I've heard too many times to count, wasn't funny the first time, but has always been mildly offensive. He has a knack of being offensive. I don;t know if he practises or if it just comes naturally.
This afternoon I was talking about him to a friend who has known him for a while, and used to see him in the pub (but she's stopped going, and I never started), and didn't try too hard to talk to him. She said the thing with the newspapers was just an excuse for contact, and he looked dejected the last time I saw him because he'd been caught out lying. Figures.
One good point she made - just because he contacts me, doesn't mean I have to reply. |
Reply #4156. Nov 24 11, 3:05 PM
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satguru
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I've been stuck with my ex girlfriend following me since 1984. Since then she's got married, separated and left home and returned, and whatever happened she came here nearly every week, and spent half the days in my shop when I was working there. She's harmless but simple, in a geriatric sort of way, repeating the same things endlessly and unable to do almost anything for herself if not helped besides travelling. It's not her fault but how I end up stuck with a dead weight, who arrives at my friends and relatives once introduced (she saw one in a video I made and accosted him in a Chinese restaurant) and has an impenetrable mind impossible to comprehend how to be different. And once she's here she won't leave. I've been having to take her home after 3am now and although she says she should go earlier she doesn't, which applies to every other aspect of her life.
It doesn't make Merv any better but the variations on these guys is infinite.
Reply #4157. Nov 24 11, 7:34 PM
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| lesley153
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| What a mess! I bet she's been your Ex for much longer than she was your Current - but how she got to be your girlfriend in the first place is a mystery. |
Reply #4158. Nov 24 11, 8:02 PM
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satguru
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It's not, it was a huge series of coincidences. On Saturday night I went to a dance in Hendon, danced with her and that was it. Sunday there was one at Habonim Finchley Road, she was there and said hello, and turned out she lived in my road. She disappeared and came back and said she'd phoned her father to say I was taking her home so he didn't have to.
I went out with her for a while and then realised her unusual sense of humour wasn't being funny but serious and realised what I'd got. I carried on for a while as there wasn't much in the way of competition and by then I'd just done my finals so could relax a bit, and then when she mentioned marriage I had to let her go so she wasn't disappointed. As she only lived down the road a couple of years later she came over as her father had kicked her out after an argument and didn't leave me alone since. Had I ever had a serious girlfriend myself for long enough I'd have had a good reason to send her packing as they'd get jealous, but they've never lasted long enough to get that far. It's a bit like matter filling a vacuum, if I had filled it willingly then others wouldn't fill it instead.
Reply #4159. Nov 24 11, 8:24 PM
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| lesley153
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| It sounds like she looked you up and down, decided you'd do, and inserted you into her life plan! Is it my imagination or are young woman becoming more predatory? or has this predatoriness been around for longer than I realised? |
Reply #4160. Nov 25 11, 5:52 AM
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