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MEET-UP @ PIZZERIA RUSTICA in RICHMOND - THURSDAY 27 JULY 2006

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MrsBigD · 23/06/2006 14:35

For those who don't have the time to trapse through the

West London meet-up thread here the new thread for July

Pizzeria Rustica 32 The Quadrant Richmond TW9
Tel: 0208 332 6262

DATE: Thursday 27 July 2006 TIME: 19:00 onwards

Takers so far (I think)

apsmum
Lazycow
MrsBigD
MrsRecycle
RabbitRabbit
SueJonez
Uwila
Yanksuponthames

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MrsBigD · 19/07/2006 17:26

hehehehe no 9-5 isn't slave hours the 'flexible approach' is... it generally reads as 'overtime a given' in jobs like that

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suejonez · 19/07/2006 17:35

Can you find one for me too Uwila? 4 days a week 9-5 anywhere west of Liverpool st East of Reading. £100,000 per annum would be nice but if really really forced could take less.

suejonez · 19/07/2006 17:36

like £99,000?

suejonez · 19/07/2006 17:44

no luck?

Uwila · 19/07/2006 18:22

No incentuve. what's in it for me?

suejonez · 19/07/2006 18:24

if you can get me £100,000 for a four day week I'll buy you a BIG present.

Only want to work 9-5.30 though.

A really, really big present.

I'm a really really good finace director - scary and all that. You have seen my fingerpointering - you must know...

Uwila · 20/07/2006 09:03

If I could find a job for £100,000 I would take it myself. (and buy you a nice pressie)

Uwila · 20/07/2006 09:04

And you didn't point, you shook your finger at me.

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MrsBigD · 20/07/2006 09:38

yes SJ you are good at fingerpointing/shaking but generally didn't find you all that scary , at least not in comp to some FD's I've worked with 'hehehehe'

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Uwila · 20/07/2006 10:08

Besides, Sue, I can not in good faith recommend anyone who spends so many of her working hours on mumsnet.

suejonez · 20/07/2006 12:43

Bugger

suejonez · 20/07/2006 12:43

Back to the drawing board then

Uwila · 20/07/2006 16:46

What a lovely day. I've just been to the dentist and advised I need a root canal. At which point she said she could do it but advised I take her up on a private referral to a specialist. But, my bupa doesn't cover dental and it will cost some £700... So, should I go to the NHS dentist who isn't very confident in her own abilities? Or rob a bank?

YanksUponThames · 20/07/2006 16:58

What ho, y'all. I'm still here, and more or less conscious, just hadn't been using the computer much lately again. Recreationally, I mean. Have had head completely up my ass with finding new flat. Our tenancy on the current one ends mid-August. (Not to mention all the tiresome family details about my mom back in the US, who can't be trusted to live by herself any more. Not because she's getting dotty in the usual sense of the word, she just can't be bothered to stay sober enough of the time.)

Found one, though. Still in this same nice-but-pricey area (dh won't have it any other way), but rather less expensive, a bit more space, has a bit of back garden, and a kitchen (and fridge)bigger than a boat galley. Which matters to me, since I'm actually home a lot and I actually cook food. And is only up one (short) flight of stairs.

YanksUponThames · 20/07/2006 17:23

uwila -- sorry to hear about the root canal. I'll bet I'll be needing one myself, though, at some random moment between now and a few years from now. My backmost lower right molar has been filled/refilled multiple times since I was 14 or so, and probably can't take another go. One of these days it will probably split right down the middle. I just hope it holds off until I'm back in the US, where my friendly and competent neighborhood dentist can deal with it for probably less than $500. Not that that's cheap, exactly, but for some reason it's still cheaper than it costs here.

What is it with the dentists here, anyway? Is there some magic spell that makes them need to charge >twice as much as ordinary dentists do in the rest of the developed world? Even in countries where dentists have no national health care funding? Is it some weird and baffling by-product of the NHS system?
I don't get it. Is it just the high rents?
Honestly, I'm curious. How do things get weird like this?

YanksUponThames · 20/07/2006 17:42

Also, truly very sorry to hear about CD's and SJ's dodgy kidneys. Weirdly enough, my dad has recently been deprived of one of his kidneys. The other one seems all right, and he has recovered nicely from the removal surgery just after Christmas, but unfortunately it was cancerous, as opposed to being chewed up from infections. But fortunately it seems that the cancer was confined to the kidney and has not spread.

How's MrsBigD's job thing going, anyway? Well, I hope...

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mrsbigd · 20/07/2006 17:58

ouch Uwila... I'm hoping those £700 include root canal and crown? Otherwise you're being had

I've probably got one coming up too as I just had a very special filling put into a tooth that's more filling than anything and the normal stuff was too close to the nerve hence... agony. The special stuff seems to alleviate it a bit (and so it should at £215!) but probably will still end up with root canal . Have dental insurance through dh's work but in effect they only cough up about 1/4 ofthe actual cost. Dentis submitted for approval the work he thinks is necessary (and he's not the type that does work that isn't) and after what they're willing to give back it'd still cost me just over £2000... guess I'll wait till the teeth crumble then and log it as an emergency...

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Uwila · 21/07/2006 08:16

Hi Yanks, I personally think that all all aspects of medical care in this country including but not limited to dentistry charge exorbitant prices for private services in order to subsidize the underfunded NHS work. The same root canal on the NHS costs some £45. But, of course, you have to settle fo a bog standard dentist and not a specialist.

I far prefer the medical system in the US, where I can get quality treatment for a reasonable price. Her it's substandard treatment or hugely expensive.

CountessDracula · 23/07/2006 22:58

uwila you should go to poland it is one third of the price and teh treatment is superb by all accounts

Uwila · 24/07/2006 09:07

Really? Is Poland known for good inexpensive dental work? I don't know why that surprises me, but it does. Anyway, I've decided to go with the NHS for the root canal, but I might go get the crown privately, especially if the NHS wants to put in a silver one. No metal teeth for me!

CountessDracula · 24/07/2006 09:44

here you go there are many like this just google}

Uwila · 24/07/2006 10:23

Gosh, so what happens if something goes wrong?
It's rather far to go for rework. Do you know anyone who has done this?

suejonez · 24/07/2006 12:07

The state of dental healthcare in this country is ridiculous and particularly in this area. I'd be the first to admit it. However in my experience, the NHS is pretty good for anything serious, my mum had the most fantastic care when she had cancer and and so do many other people. Non-essential treatment doeas seem to have deteriorated since I was a gel, not paticularly in quality but in speed, but this only seems to be a problem in certain fields eg orthopaedics. I got a speedy and excellent gynae referral a few years ago, but I know of people who are waiting for hip replacements. I think its down to the number of consultants going into certain fields.

suejonez · 24/07/2006 12:08

Oh and I hope that Polish dentists are better than my polish buildres were!

I would consider going if someone personally recommended them and I had sufficiently expensive dental work to be done.

CountessDracula · 24/07/2006 12:12

They offer a 5 year guarantee that covers the cost of flights/accommodation as well apparantly.

I know several people who have been, the clinics are immaculate with all the latest gear and the dentists are very well trained by all accounts