| lesley153
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Spent the last two days feeling like sh|t. It was just like a year ago, when I couldn't sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time, and couldn't sleep at all unless I was propped up or sitting up straight, and my belly was anything from a normal round tummy (well, normal for me) to a beach ball or demolition ball swinging in my ribcage.
My ex-GP decided in his infinite wisdom that the beach ball was the result of a sub-acute gastrointestinal blockage. He liked his wild guesses. Even when he got it right, and the hospital goofed and got it wrong, he still didn't have the courage of his convictions, because he didn't have any convictions. Everything he wanted to investigate was a wild guess.
So I've been well propped up for sleeping, and today was the first day for three days that I could lie flat without immediately sitting up again to struggle for breath, and could feel my ribs!
Only nine days to go. :) |
Reply #821. Jul 06 10, 10:21 AM
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satguru 
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I've been breaking conventions unwittingly and deliberately all my life. The main trend of my booklet I wrote was if there's a rule check why it's there as you may not actually need it. It gets you into a lot of trouble but stops a lot of wasted time and effort.
So maybe they could be called untraining courses- forget what you've always been told and think for yourselves- do you think it could catch on?
Reply #822. Jul 06 10, 11:44 AM
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| lesley153
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Catch on? Probably not. Too many people are terrified at the prospect of having to think for themselves. :(
I was just thinking of training a dental hygienists and making pots of money. |
Reply #823. Jul 07 10, 7:03 AM
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| lesley153
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It was on Monday that I rang LIDL. Yesterday, the LIDL flyer was propping my letterbox open. It is now adorning the front doorstep.
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It was also on Monday that I left a voice message with Haematology. I rang again yesterday, but the answering machine was on AGAIN, so I hung up.
Today, a real person answered. She can't tell me the result because she's only the secretary. Yes she heard my message, and gave it to the haematologist. He won't be in till Friday. Perhaps Pathology can tell you?
I got put through to Path twice, by accident, when I asked for Haematology, so probably not. But she can't give me the results because she's only the secretary. Yes, and she's the person everyone else has been telling me to ring. "We might tell your GP." I've got a new GP. She took the details. This is highly irritating. I've never been refused test results over the phone before.
She's not qualified to tell me the results. You don't need to be qualified. It's yes or no. Am I allergic to gluten or not? It couldn't be simpler.
So - we have a secretary who can't give me results because she's "only a secretary" and doesn't have access to them and anyway there are issues of confidentiality: who passes my message on to someone she knows won't be in till the end of the week, and yet it doesn't occur to her to ring me and tell me there'll be a wait: can't give me information yet is perfectly happy to take my word for it that I've left one practice and found another.
I give up. |
Reply #824. Jul 07 10, 7:29 AM
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| sherry75
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Sorry to buck the trend, but I quite like Lidl for certain items: especially German sausage, cheese, etc. and some of their wines are ok. Thankfully not very busy here, so rarely more than a dozen people in there at one time.
The vegetables at our local one are quite often locally sourced and drastically cheaper than Tesco: prefer to use my village greengrocer and have, of late, actually been eating our home grown veggies and salad.
The flier comes inside the local freebie paper so always put through the door, so no probs there.
Lidl carrier bags are 3p. I think, so almost half the price of an M&S one.
Reply #825. Jul 07 10, 8:24 AM
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satguru
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I like Lidl as well, only the paper they put through the door is the problem. I don't think I even checked what the bags cost, it was just the principle I objected to. The cat was very happy with the Spanish food, I liked the very cheap Greek (apparently made in Greece as well) yogurt, and if you liked tinned stew could live very cheaply on it for days. It's only because there are a few other places closer I don't need to take the car to I don't go there now, but would probably save pounds a week if I did.
Reply #826. Jul 07 10, 12:23 PM
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| lesley153
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Sherry, I don't think there's a trend, I think anywhere is cheaper for fruit and veg than Sainsbury and Tesco, and I hope they've got their refrigeration better now.
Goodness - you have a village greengrocer - how many people can say that? I didn't realise you were in a village - I thought you were in beautiful urban Cheltenham. We do have farmers' markets, though. I haven't looked recently, but they all seemed to be silly prices too.
Perhaps when my faulty component has been replaced, and I'm up and running again, I shall have another look and see what's new. I was thinking farmers' markets. Not sure about Lidl.
David, I agree about the principle. If you're going to put a bag of potatoes and some kitchen towel into a carrier bag, you may be eating at their profits. A couple of cartons of cigarettes - definitely not.
There's not much incentive to re-use them, though, while they're free, and rarely get you home without springing at least one hole. One point on your loyalty card is not much incentive. Still OK to use for bin-liners, though. |
Reply #827. Jul 07 10, 1:36 PM
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| sherry75
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Yep have a village greengrocer who is brilliant, along with a bevy of other small local shops which manage to undercut the small Tesco here - also a small Lidl. Just a short bus ride into lovely Cheltenham - much as would love one of the gorgeous Georgian houses, its a bit pricey. Although Tesco seems to do well, there is quite a rebellious streak in the villagers who like to shop with the small traders... long may it continue. There is a farmers market a couple of times a month in Cheltenham, but it is a bit pricey. Best FM I have ever been to was in Stratford but a 40 minute drive away.
A smashing place to be,nestled under the gorgeous Cleeve Hill, but I do wish it would rain!
Reply #828. Jul 07 10, 3:01 PM
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| lesley153
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Aha - so it's not just Bedford where the farmers' market prices get silly.
I had a load of London colleagues who moved that-a-way when the Cheltenham office expanded, and some particularly good friends who landed in Bishops Cleeve and Charlton Kings. Nice.
Is it possible that the small, village Tesco is charging higher prices than urban shops, because it's only got small, village shops to compete with? Not that I really care how or why - it's just wonderful that the local shops are undercutting it. Long live rebellion. |
Reply #829. Jul 07 10, 3:15 PM
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| Lochalsh
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"She's a rebel ... la la la"
Oops, sorry. I thought I was on the 60s-music thread. ;-)
Reply #830. Jul 07 10, 4:24 PM
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| lesley153
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[grin]
Don't stop singing. |
Reply #831. Jul 07 10, 4:53 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Perhaps you'd fancy a bit of "Gaolhouse Rock"?
Reply #832. Jul 07 10, 4:57 PM
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| Lochalsh
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I missed my opportunity to say "a few bars of Gaolhouse ..." :(
Ah,well, stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage ....
Reply #833. Jul 07 10, 4:59 PM
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Sizzileen
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I wish I knew what all this meant
Reply #834. Jul 07 10, 5:13 PM
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| lesley153
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| I hope you're not expecting me to know! All I know is it's a demonstration of moving from 17th century poetry to 20th century rock, in one post. Impressive. :) |
Reply #835. Jul 08 10, 8:28 AM
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| Lochalsh
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It's intertextuality, and knowing that Lesley understands anything thrown her way. She's a very smart cookie (or do you English types say "smart biscuit"?).
Reply #836. Jul 08 10, 8:40 AM
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| lesley153
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I haven't heard the word intertextuality before, and I've certainly never been called a clever biscuit!
Oh and it wasn't moving from 17th century poetry to 20th century rock: it was moving to 17th century poetry from 20th century rock. There, doesn't that make so much more sense now? |
Reply #837. Jul 08 10, 8:59 AM
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| poneke
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*Thud*
Reply #838. Jul 08 10, 9:13 AM
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| Lochalsh
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If you haven't heard of intertextuality, that's because you've been out making real money and doing real things rather than being a drudge academic in a musty tower.
Lesley the Clever Biscuit: Sounds like a Scot engaged in boundary disputes with the English. Or, better, Lesley the Shortbread. (You like? Probably not. ;-) )
Reply #839. Jul 08 10, 9:14 AM
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| Lochalsh
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poneke, are you curtseying again? Careful, darlin'. :)
Reply #840. Jul 08 10, 9:15 AM
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