Best wishes to your Mum Yorkie, I have to say, my experience of the NHS since I've been in Weston has been superb! I'm always early for my appointments and 9 times out of 10 I'm on my way home before my appointment was actually due!
"Get this bloke out of here before he starts talking about football". I can hear it all the way from here.
leeds is quite different... although the outpatient service is much better than it was... A & E and what follows are brain numbing sadly.... LOL!
Morning from sunny NW London. I hope your mum makes a speedy recovery Yorkie. Off to my local church for the first of the annual round of first holy communions. I rather suspect the priest will race through it so his mainly Irish congregation can be out in time for the match...
Sorry to hear about your mum Yorkie - best wishes for a speedy recovery. My dad is 92 in a few weeks and we constantly fear for him falling down - he lives alone in the house where we were brought up and only on our "insistence" had a stair lift fitted a year or two ago. I phone him early every morning to check he is alright - even though he does have one of those alert alarm things. Don't start me on waiting times at hospitals - on average we wait between two and three hours beyond our appointment time on each visit. The only satisfaction is that the doctors and staff are just marvellous and we cannot praise them enough - they are just rushed off their feet as too many people have cancer.
Just got back from a week in a hotel in Majorca, unfortunately it was swarming with kids. When I relayed this distressing fact to my 40 year old daughter back home she did inform me my cheap last minute bargain deal was at a family hotel in half term week! Duh. Anyway I digress, the bread served at the hotel was always stale, unlike the superb bread from the artisan bakers in my local town when I lived in France. One baker actually used a stone oven, bread to die for.
yes my mum 94 is on to the next stage now living with us... my mum was living alone and I use to ring several times a day... thank goodness she is with us now as I don't know if anyone would have found her... .and she didn't have her wristband on..
All the best to your Mum Yorkie. As for hospital appointments and ambulances, it is rare that I see the doctor more than 5 minutes after my appointment time with the exception of my last time with the neurologist and I may have mentioned previously the farce 3 months ago with getting me to hospital after my last seizures. When I was growing up, I had to go to Harefield and Mount Vernon regularly. For each trip to Harefield, I had 2 appointment times - 1 for an ECG, and 1 when I saw the doctor (some of you may have heard of Dr Rosemary Radley-Smith, who was the cardiac consultant for those who had their operations done by Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub) and both appointments were pretty much on time every single visit. Seeing the neurologist about my epilepsy at Mount Vernon was a different story - an hour wait was commonplace.
weird eh... I see the physio virtually dead on time when I go ..but specialist clinics can involve a long wait
I've got 3 children and 5 grandchildren but didn't like sharing a restaurant with 200 kids. Some also managed to poo in the pool. Luckily we had an adults only pool to share with the other miserable old gits! My wife's no longer impressed with my bargain breaks.
I managed to change some Spanish pesetas to Euros in Palma last week at the Bank of Spain. Apparently Spain will only do the exchange until 2020. Does anyone know if French Francs can still be changed for Euros?
Le Blanc about 25 miles from here has a number of shops that will accept Francs or Euros although Francs were not supposed to be legal currency after February 2012.
Thats exactly what the missus said especially after I celebrated changing my old pesatas for 205 euros by taking her to McDonalds for lunch in Palma!!!
Lovely to see Dave. My eldest granddaughter is eleven and I find her great company. She is on a program to cure her dairy allergy which finishes at the end of this month, and is so pleased that she will be able to eat a normal school dinner. If only they had done things to help her when she lived in the UK she could have been over it by now. I was reading an article written by a young girl I know who moved from Yorkshire to France when she was nine. She speaks French with the local accent and English with a broad Yorkshire. She is now at Uni in Poitiers and has lived for a year in Spain and another year in Peru. She said that she didn't feel a national of any country, just a human of the world. I couldn't help that think Nationalism has created many problems and how much better things would be with her attitude.
