D'ya ever wonder how long the sun will last...?

[Sokmonsta]

Morning! Since its a sunny day here I thought I'd say sunny hellos. Unless of course anyone else has beat me to it and I've missed the new thread.

Sorry Trips -cross posted.
It sounds like the home were horrendously neglectful to me, as well as lying, writing false documentation and they also have really poor care and hygiene standards, I do hope that something good comes from that horrible time, although it sounds like a bit of a whitewash to me.
As for the behaviour of the DTs and DH this evening, I'm sorry, I would have told your lot to go stuff themselves and got a takeaway for one if it had been me, the ungrateful wretches. To not even think to start dinner or anything, knowing what an awful day you were likely to have had makes me so

Thank you Bubbs, and I never swore once, even in my poshest voice!

Morning girls xx

Oh Trips, my dear friend. Thats how many, many of our elderly people in this country are treated. Like my Dad - diagnosed in March and told he literally had weeks to live. Then discharged from the hospital.....sent home to 'wait for God.' The carers waft in and out of their house and dont notice how Mums Alzheimers is raging out of control. She just needs someone to hold her hand for a minute and listen to her. Nobody has the time to do these jobs.

As for your 'lot at home' - that would be what it would be like here if I had a day like yours. They are used to us being at their beck and call and cant even fart without us being there!!! I think its a generation thing where us women followed our mothers example and became quite literally 'head cook and bottle washers!!'

Morning girls

what a load of shit trips :( At least tho, even if they did lie, it will have shaken them up and there will be better practice in the future. So wrong though.

(I think I would have sworn!)

Goodmorning girls and thank you for your support, everything keeps going round and round my head. But I know I couldnt do more, I have fought her last battle..............oh how I miss her Keep finding myself thinking of all the lies they told and thinking " Ill ask Mum"....then it hits me that I can never ask Mum again....:(

Oh Trips - I kind of already know that feeling. My Mums memories are now from many years ago - she used to ring me every day and now she doesn't - she thinks she already has done

My Grandad Ernie (Mums Dad) used to say he hoped he would never make 'old bones.' He died from cancer when he was just 57. I never knew what that meant but I do now xxxxx

Your Mum would be so proud of you for fighting her battles - you are a good daughter xxxxx

Sorry! Confused bubs and trips last night

Morning girls........head full of memories, round and round..............need to get up and get on! xx

Morning girls xx

Blimey have you all gone awol? Mama you are very quiet, I hope everything is ok?

Im here Trips! Fun filled day tomorrow - parents GP went to visit them and has left a feckin' prescription for Dad at THEIR house!! Dad has a throat infection. Then the GP went back to the surgery, where the pharmacy is, and instead of dropping it in their so we could collect it for him later he left it at mum and dads house.

So tommorow will consist of a 20 minute bus ride down to my parents, pick up the prescription, a 20 minute ride back to the nearest pharmacy - wait for tablets and the 20 min ride back again and then home.....so at least 80 minutes on the bus - thats if they are on time.

God give me feckin' strength - GP might be very clever but he has no bloody common sense.

Ever felt like going to sleep for the next few months???

Hi Shabs, useless! They have no idea have they? Is there no way the surgery can fax the prescription straight thru to the pharmacy for you to collect? Or get them to deliver it? Awful quiet on here.............if I get out the trolley d`ya think anyon will appear?

Night girls - see you in a few hours xx

Morning girls xx

Frosty, dark and freezing here.

I'm okay. Just all over the place with emotions and totally knackered. I forgot what the newborn days were like!

Morning, ladies xx

Mrs Shabs, four and a half hours sleep is not enough!
Mama good to hear from you, how is Apollo.........I hope he is ok.
Bit of blue sky, but blustery and cold..............I miss the summer....
Nothing exciting planned for the w/end, we do have to sit down with the kids and wade through the 6 form pack we were given the other night. Must say I found it all very confusing, they are asked to choose 4 courses each by the 20th Dec, but will only be accepted on the course if they get the right gcse grade and they won`t get their grade results until next Aug?

Same here with college Trips.

Tom chose the course he wanted....its a Btec (equivalent to 3 A levels) they dont get exams at the end of a Btec but the course work is intense. He chose the course and applied for college. They then keep in touch with the kids (from the college). On the day he got his GCSE results they had representatives from college to explain their options. Any kids who had not done very well were advised as to what they could do about it. The same day they got their results they had to go and enrol at college.

I was like you - it was daunting to be honest. Then me and Tom sat down and made a list of dates and things to do lists. It was much less difficult than it sounds when you read it the first 1,000 times!!!

So at college Tom goes 5 days and studies on thing? even more........

Girls roll call please..........I need help choosing a new cooker. After 17 years of cooking with gas on a large range cooker I need to change it. I am hopefully having a new kitchen fitted in Jan and the new design would look fab if I down size to smaller oven. Most under counter ovens are electric, with a fan . I bake a lot and have read that the results are not as good and that electric is more expensive if you cook a lot, which I do...............once more I am What do you all have?

LOL - its not as daunting as it first seems Trips.

He is doing a Btec I.T. practitioner. Eventually he would like to be a video games designer. The course teaches them everything from building their own computer and how to repair computers, right the way through to programming. He does approx 18 hours per week and then a minimum of 2 hours per night on his course work. They are marked on course work about 3 times per term.

His friend is doing 3 A levels and that is more convential - with the 'BIG' exams at the end of the two years.

Btecs are 'recognised' and 'accepted' when/if the time comes for them to go to Uni.

In October next year Tom will have to start making desicions about bloody Uni. We have an excellent one in Bolton - next door to his 6th form college.....it would mean much less expense if he went there...but he has all these fancy ideas about Manchester Uni???????? What the feck???? He would have an extra minimum of 3 hours per day travelling etc etc. BUT Tom and his friend are going to rent a house and live near to the Uni!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha poor buggers have no idea.

I personally think it is a disgrace that our kids cant become apprentices (no such thing around her anymore) I dont think that college and uni are for everybody.

Cooker question?

I have a gas cooker that Chellesters sister gave me - my Gawd I wish I was rich!!! Its fab but its old and slightly knackered - bit like me really.

Right off to my parents I go - on Dads drug run

Hi. Sorry, working my long hours again, plus agency and trying to sort mums flat as well as home life, so struggling to fit everything in. I am on call this weekend, and having threatened to jack the job in if they didnt sort themselves in the office out so I didn't end up sorting their unfinished crap all weekend, wonder of wonders, its been done this time, and things are going reasonably smoothly for a change This will probably go wrong now I have mentioned it tho .
DH and boys off buying replacement tools with insurance money, so I am sitting quietly here with the work computer and phone beside me and the dogs at my feet relaxing for a change.

Trips - I have no choice but to have an electric fan oven, but I prefer gas
Shabs- there is no reason why the GP cant fax or send an electronic script to the pharmacy and they deliver it, it is a service designed specifically for situations just like your parents.
Mama- hope things are ok with Apollo.
Soks/Chops/Ruby - you ok out there??

just back!!!

Yep my parents get their medication delivered once a month but this prescription was in addition. I walked from the town centre to the surgery/pharmacy only to find that when the surgery is closed so is the fookin' pharmacy. My Dad had already filled the back of the prescription in as well!!! I took it to another pharmacy and they allowed me to get it from there for him. Still angry with their GP though - he could have easily sorted that out for us. Ah well, never mnd!! Carers said to my Mam 'Is this your daughter?' 'Yes its my eldest she is nearly 60!!! (nearly 57 but whose counting LOL) she has just done the DRUG RUN for her Dad LMFWAO