Random Irritations

Getting a nosebleed out on my fatbike. Very frustrating, first decent snow headed out along the canal and it was pouring out, a guy walking his dog stopped me to see i was alright. Looked like I'd been shot in the face apparently. Guy gave me a tissue, but didn't help. Had to cut the rude short and head back. Bleed for a good hour and a half, got home covered in blood. Not had a bleed like thus every, must have been the cold.
 
Annual check up at doctors next week. 'Can you do my covid booster as well'. No, we are not doing them. OK where can i get one, nearst pharmacy offering them is 10 miles away. Nowhere in Grantham is offering them.

Annual check up? Lucky you. Want a Dr here, apply Online. Someone, or something,
decides if and when you’ll see or hear from one.
Two weeks telephone is about average I‘d guess.

Asking for an annual check up? The word Zero comes to mind.
 
Annual check up at doctors next week. 'Can you do my covid booster as well'. No, we are not doing them. OK where can i get one, nearst pharmacy offering them is 10 miles away. Nowhere in Grantham is offering them.
Wait..what?
You've got an appointment....???
At the Doctor's????
 
Annual check up? Lucky you. Want a Dr here, apply Online. Someone, or something,
decides if and when you’ll see or hear from one.
Two weeks telephone is about average I‘d guess.

Asking for an annual check up? The word Zero comes to mind.


OK may be exagerating a little, it will be with a nurse at my doctor's. My doctor retired 3 years ago so now have no idea who my Doctor even is.
 
Royal Free Hospital parking.
Car Park full. Corporation of London have closed the car parks on Hampstead Heath because of the snow and my usual plan C the Premier Inn is closed! No option but to park in a permit holders only bay and face the consequences. ???
Similar but different at Kings Mill in Mansfield. The one working barrier is broken most of the time. Costing £7 for my twice daily visits, half of which I spend getting drinks for people as there are so many patients and so few staff. If they go on strike the impact will be horrific. I couldn't do their job.
 
I am on blood pressure meds and so they make me go in every 12 months.

And I bet like my dad, when they call you in for an appointment, you don't want to be there. Traffic was probably rubbish, nowhere to park, then they are running 20 minutes late and there is a crying baby in the waiting room, You finally get called in, blood pressure checked...

Ooo it's a bit high... :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
And I bet like my dad, when they call you in for an appointment, you don't want to be there. Traffic was probably rubbish, nowhere to park, then they are running 20 minutes late and there is a crying baby in the waiting room, You finally get called in, blood pressure checked...

Ooo it's a bit high... :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO:

It never ceases to amaze me how I can get the first appointment in the morning and still go in 15 minutes later.
 
Getting a nosebleed out on my fatbike. Very frustrating, first decent snow headed out along the canal and it was pouring out, a guy walking his dog stopped me to see i was alright. Looked like I'd been shot in the face apparently. Guy gave me a tissue, but didn't help. Had to cut the rude short and head back. Bleed for a good hour and a half, got home covered in blood. Not had a bleed like thus every, must have been the cold.
I've now Googled what this is, but the first couple of times you mentioned it I thought it was some kind of exercise bike for losing weight. :LOL:

Sympathies on the nosebleed. I've not had any since I was a teenager, and I never knew what caused it then.
 
Getting a nosebleed out on my fatbike. Very frustrating, first decent snow headed out along the canal and it was pouring out, a guy walking his dog stopped me to see i was alright. Looked like I'd been shot in the face apparently. Guy gave me a tissue, but didn't help. Had to cut the rude short and head back. Bleed for a good hour and a half, got home covered in blood. Not had a bleed like thus every, must have been the cold.

You could be right about the cold. I was out at 7am with the dog, it was -5 (felt like -8), I could feel the cold in my fillings!
 
I've had some blood tests done recently....took a while for the results to come through but that's by the by.

Whilst ringing up to get my results, during the 40 minute hold time (during which I moved 31 places in the queue before being answered) I learned that I could view my medical records and test results online. When I finally got through, I mentioned this to the "care assistant/triage person/person designed to do everything in their power to prevent me from actually seeing a doctor" and was told that I could either fill in a form at the surgery or I could go online to access the service.

When I got off the phone, I went online and sure enough...there was a form that I could complete......but I would need to print it off, fill it in with a traditional pen and and then hand deliver it to the surgery!!! This seemingly, is what passes for efficient use of technology here in darkest Suffolk.
 
Similar but different at Kings Mill in Mansfield. The one working barrier is broken most of the time. Costing £7 for my twice daily visits, half of which I spend getting drinks for people as there are so many patients and so few staff. If they go on strike the impact will be horrific. I couldn't do their job.

My tale ended happily, maybe the snow and ice kept the wardens away but returned to my car after 5 hours and no ticket! Unheard of in car hating Camden! ?
 
Ok…I can get that part of the irritation could be over-familiarity, both of some carols and every choir under the sun bashing them out - so this year one of our choir-only carols was the medieval Coventry Carol…sung acapella it is actually rather haunting - moving in both words and music. We got some lovely feedback on it from many who had never heard it before, I’m not going to hold my breath, no pictures, just words and voices, and maybe, just maybe…?


Sorry fella, I absolutely hated it.
 
Only thing worse than adults singing Christmas carols, is kids singing Christmas carols.

But some people enjoy listening to them. So, each to their own.
 
I don’t care which English club half the Croatian and Argentinian players have played for or currently play for. It’s irrelevant. So stop telling me (which they won’t) - tonight they play for Croatia and Argentina.
 
I don't know whether I "like" this as an opposite of those who clearly dislike it.
I can really embrace this as being part of my historic culture, adds to my understanding of my culture.
Written hundreds of years ago and performed with ability and skill. Well worth listening to.
I have no religion, but again, I embrace and understand the place religion has in the development of my country's culture. I find it important to do so.
Choral singing is a large part of my personal half-Welsh culture.
Being uninterested in, disinterested in, or rejecting the culture of one's own country is a strange thing to me.
On the whole, I find this performance of this historic piece of music a good thing.
My point was simply that the music of many carols is often of significant ‘classical’ and as you say ‘historical’ merit in its own right…the music of many carols can be appreciated on their own merits. So the almost Gregorian Chant nature of The Coventry Carol, or the beauty of Harold Darkes setting of In the Bleak Midwinter (Christina Rossetti’s words are also beautiful poetry in their own right).
 
Raynaud's syndrome.

My hand after a game of golf.
Absolutely dead and painless at this point ................................. but when the blood returns, WOWZERS!!!
For me, it can be as many as three fingers and not always the same three.

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