Marnin' Tip run this morning. Cleaned out my unit yesterday and need to get rid of a ton of crap that was stacked away in cupboards etc. Deliveries this afternoon, then taking the old dear out for an Indian tonight for her birthday.
Morning - taking Mum to the hospital for her pre-op which will be fun particularly with the difficulty parking there due to closure of 2 of their car parks .
Morning. Got an early meeting in Soho so pleasant walk from Victoria. There are no worse people than tourists who get on rush hour trains at Gatwick. AIDS to all of them.
Mate, ****in hospital car parks. I have to take my old dear to regular appts. The one at my local hospital have closed the one small car park they had and are building an out patient dept on it. So you have to drive round and round the streets trying to find somewhere to park. This is after dropping my old dear off in reception and then losing her in the hospital as she shuffles off to try and find the dept she needs to get to. The other one at the main Hospital up the line is always packed and is ****in ludicrously expensive. The NHS farmed this stuff out to private parking contractors ages ago and they are just fleeing people
The population has grown, the people using the NHS has increased enormously as people live longer, we can't keep building to accomodate cars, that's the simple reality of it. Yes the private companies are fleecing people, but it still don't stop people using them as they are always full, well certainly during peak times. So it's either use public transport or get someone to drop you off. Keep building car parks on land we haven't got or giving free or cheap parking resolves nothing. Some people due to disability may need to use a vehicle, that I accept, in that case we need to bring in even stronger measures to stop those that don't from parking there or stricter time limits. Blaming private companies is just a cop out, the simple reality is we need to address as a country how we get about. We are getting fleeced for being lazy, as I said there will always be exceptions.
I tend to measure a visit to the hospital dependent on why I'm going and the time of the appointment and what hospital I'm going to. If it's a good appointment time and I'm happy to be fleeced, then take the car. If not get dropped off and get family to return later OR catch public transport where possible. If it's surgery, I generally get seen off the premises by a nurse and my family get permission to park in the ambulance bay on pick-up. I can get dropped off at the ambulance point as well, but it has to be a quick stop and get out, no taking the piss.
Pizza oven getting it's first outing of the year tonight ... I'm currently dough watching with a nice glass of Puglian red
everywhere jammed when we got there and it to 20 mins just to go round the hospital and then we managed to join the queue for the disabled car park ( though most spaces are not disabled parking spaces ) and thankfully we got one fairly quickly so i got her there just in time. We have to park there as they have a lift from there to very close to the eye clinic where she is heading .. Got about 6 visits to look forward to in May as she refuses to have me drop her off and i **** off to the local Aldi and when she has finished she rings me .
Yeah my old dear is disabled, so I basically need to get her to the front door of a hospital in a car
Been to barbers lookin fresh got a few days chillin with the gal enjoying the weather and pissin her off coz my tan is always ahead of hers lol dumb female insecurities need a slap
