Mardy Crepeys

[SheherazadeSchadenfreude]

Done it...

Crem - hope your dad is feeling better today and that the anti-bios are kicking in.

Hattie - I read about the Paris smog, how grim.

I'm sitting here fuming at the squirrels who have eaten all but 8 of the buds on my magnolia tree. I am very as it's my favourite bit of the spring garden. Does anyone have an air rifle? On a related note, a few teeny blue tits and wrens have managed to eat 4 enormous feed balls in the space of a week . They are now so fat they can barely get off the ground.

I should stop staring out of the window now as I have a work review tomorrow and need to pad out put extra detail into my job description.

How annoying, wilbur. I love magnolia trees.

Herbs, 30 coats and jackets I think I have about 12 and DH thinks that is excessive!
I think you are probably right about him realising that he is soon going to be the man of the family.

30 (thirty, XXX)! Herbs! I shall tell dp this next time he complains :) (actually it's shoes he moans about here..... I like a shoe, or two, or several. He is of the four pair variety - works, trainers, best and other.....)

Teaching Roman Numerals is now to be part of the new National Curriculum from September

Actually, I think I might have dreamed the figure 30. It's more like 20. XX. Some of which are light 'smart' jackets. But admittedly, having four parkas (of varying 'weight'), two dark wool coats, two leather jackets (one of which I can't find), and light down jacket, an 'outdoor' coat, a trench, and many more, may still be excessive. I've sold about five recently, too!

BTM is that the influence of the Crepeys

Wilbur , I actually don't tell DH how much I spend on sunflower hearts for the bird- he thinks I buy 2 one kilo bags at £2 a shot a week; it's probably 3 - 4. However the birds do reward me; I have blue tits, great tits, long tailed, just about every finch including bullfinches and goldfinches. Evidently birds can smell sunflower hearts from up to two miles away.

MI , I hope your friend is ok on Friday.

Back still awful so doctors in the morning.

I have a pair of woodpeckers (chuffed) at least I think that's what they are green with red caps.

Well you lot - I shall not feel guilty next time I go jacket shopping. I shall justify to DH on the grounds that most women have at least 12 .

Went to hospital and told that appointment had been cancelled and that I needed to attend the cancer clinic instead. The department blamed the booking people for not letting me know and the booking people blamed the department. AIBU to think that they should not blithely send you a letter for "the earliest appointment" at the cancer clinic, giving you over two weeks to sweat and worry? There were no doctors available to speak to me, so I went home. Couldn't face work. My Mum gets a phone call with her results and a letter detailing what to expect at her appointment/options for further treatment that they will discuss with her.

Mrs S - that is dreadful, somebody should step up and get it sorted rather than leaving you worrying like that.

MrsS that is dreadful. Am for you. Is there any arse you can kick?

Mrs S, that is appalling. If you feel like it, I think you can justifiably fire off a stinker of a letter, tweet the chief exec, whatever. That is simply dreadful communication. I am sorry the worry is prolonged.

MrsS , what a bummer; so sorry to hear about that. I do think that you need to complain as it really is not good enough.

MrsS, I absolutely think you should complain in the strongest terms. That's ridiculously bad communication and it's you that is carrying the can for their collective incompetence.

Agree with everyone else - complain, it's awful

Got a kitchen salesman coming round imminently. What was I thinking of?

Mrs S how fucking ridiculous . I'd be on the phone in the morning to the consultants secretary ( dermatology should have a head consultant in charge of the clinic)
Grrr...

I am feeling feisty after finding dad no better on the ward today. Still burning a temperature and unable to draw a breath. I had to fetch the ward sister after two aux nurses tried to fob me off with ( he's got a buzzer and he can tell us if he needs anything) NO HE CANT - he can't breathe you cow!!!
Senior reg immediately set up a ventilator after dsis arrived down in midwife uniform breathing fire. Poor dad. I left him this evening after we'd both had a wee cry.

Crem, that is awful .

Please do complain both, if you can find the energy - I have twice complained about NHS services, and both times it was taken seriously - in one, a midwife was sent for further training, and asked the hospital to tell me that she had not thought about how her behaviour came across, and was upset but glad that she now was aware; in the other, my GP practice complained about the locum at fault to his employer and promised me they would never use him again. And both were in the bad old days.

Mrs S and Crem, agree with Lalsy - please do complain if you can at all find the energy. So sorry both of you - it's not right.

Am a bit all over the place and not posting very much because sort of starting new job which in many ways is great but in others uncertain, but reading and thinking of you all (and the birds)

Good luck to Addle and hope your Dad's bearing up Crem. Good thing your sister's around to sort them out.

Crem, I hope that you find things better today. Thank goodness your DSis was able to pull rank, as it were. I sometimes think that the "professionals" discount the views of lay people as if we are always idiots.

I hope the new job settles down, Addle.

It looks like a nice day here; off to the dr soon re back, but am convinced that they will only give me pain killers. DSis says that she thinks all women should be able to retire at 60 because of the strain child birth puts on our bodies (my back problems stem from pregnancies). Interesting thought.

Right, MrsS, let's help sort this lot out. Can help you write letter in Strongest Terms, identify suitable people at hospital, etc. Drop me an email. Anyone else - Lalsy? - on for giving me a hand?

Yes, be happy to if you would like another pair of eyes MrsS

I've identified some relevant people, including the PALS patient liaison service (which is supposed to handle complaints), the dermatology people, etc at what I think is the appropriate hospital.

Similar shite going on with FiL. He was told he had two months to live in front of some non-close family members. Secondly, they've been saying he needs an operation to make him more comfortable, but can't seem to get around to doing it. Meanwhile, time's ticking away with him away from his family. sil said to a doctor 'cant you get on with it, he's not got long left' and that doctor said 'where did you hear that? He might have six monts. We just don't know.'

He gets told different things every day about when/if he can go home. Macmillan won't say what they can do for him, so he's scared and doesn't know what to expect. And meanwhile he's deteriorating.

I can't believe there isn't a protocol to follow in these circumstances.

Drop me email if you need similar identification task, Herbs - am good at working out email addresses etc as frequently approach people to interview them...