The Lurker Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said: My data comes from the same source as yours (worldindata) and does compare apples with apples. The difference is that mine has the first dose figures included which show that 73% of both the UK and aus have had at least one dose, so will presumably go on to get the second one. Our vaccine programme was in disarray until early September, hence the greater percentage here still waiting for the time to pass until they can get their second stabbing. Speaking of things going up in value which was mentioned earlier, something to do with guitars or whatever... Not sure how it copes with the 12-15 year olds who are only going to get 1 jab (bony sure about 16-17 year olds). They will be fully jabbed but won’t have had a second dose. Younger Lurker gets his on Wednesday, medically supervised at St Thomas’s (due to his peanut allergy, the advice is to have medical supervision, although we are not expecting any adverse reaction). 5 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post simontaylor484 Posted October 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 Evening all Firstly thanks for all the messages of support it really means a lot. I took youngest for his appointment at Pinderfields this morning and appropriated Swmbo from her ward to attend with us. The poor little mite had to have 15 phials of blood taken the nurse in the children's centre put numbing cream on his hands.we then had to wait 30 mins and go back. The Mrs was nt well at all trying to get up out of her wheelchair and wondering round. We went back they managed to get 2 tubes out of his hand he went all faint. We had the rest of his appointment then took Mrs back to the ward. He had more numbing cream on the inside of his elbow and were sent to phlebotomy. The staff there were exceptional they told us tobcome back at 130 and wait at the door way. We were seen straight away they managed to get 13 tubes out of him theyvgave him a couple of choccy biccies to help his sugar levels and a sticker and fancy plaster. I had to have a tube taken did I get numbing cream or a sticker or snazzy plaster no I didn't 1 31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 ... and now Amazon will REALLY let me annoy the neighbours with this offer ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/plan-b-not-at-this-point/ 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 13 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said: ... and now Amazon will REALLY let me annoy the neighbours with this offer ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/plan-b-not-at-this-point/ Strangling cats.. Great to annoy neighbours with..her indoors plays the shawm occasionally..just as good. Baz 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 10 hours ago, PhilJ W said: A lot of the drop back in the US is down to social media. There are additional, equally relevant influences, but our avoidance of politics here forbids me to discuss them. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Overdone the eyelid inspection again this afternoon but still can't stop yawning. Muggatee time, be back later. 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2021 9 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: Thanks for the tip, pH. A friend of ours grows them on her allotment but doesn't eat them herself so she gives them to us. We're knee deep in the damned things! Dave Can also be used as a soup base. We tend to freeze some of it for winter use. Plenty of recipes online like this one. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/italianstylezucchini_9833 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2021 7 hours ago, Tony_S said: Geriatric services in south Birmingham for my mother were poor but fantastic when she moved to Worcestershire. When my mother needed them in Birmingham they were virtually non-existant. 1 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2021 5 hours ago, polybear said: Hmmm......perhaps Bear should try such a creation after all - purely in the interests of being totally unbiased you understand... I would offer you a slice of courgette cake but alas it does not travel well if unaccompanied. The alternative is that final assembly is performed on site by a technician accredited by the maker. Unfortunately l will be unable to perform either service before the last one of the season has been consumed. 1 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Good Evening Awl, An interesting read has been had today, with two differing views of the same subject from opposite sides. 8 hours ago, iL Dottore said: You have indeed been lucky. From many of the experiences posted on ER, others seem not to have been so lucky with their GP. All my friends and acquaintances who have worked in the NHS in different roles and who have moved to Europe or the US to work as clinicians or to work in the medical industries all say the same things: The frontline of the NHS (Doctors, Nurses, Technicians) is usually pretty good, The rest of the NHS? Overly bureaucratic, inefficient and in places downright incompetent. One of my ex-NHS friends was telling me last Saturday that during his surgical rotation he and fellow students were to participate in a 7:30 am procedure. When 7:30 came around, there was no patient to be operated on. Why? Because there was no porter to take the patient from the ward to the operating theatre. “No problems” said my friend and some of his colleagues, “we’ll go to the ward and get the patient ourselves”. They weren’t allowed to do that because “they hadn’t been trained in the correct manner to push a gurney“. The net result: a poor patient had his/her surgery cancelled and a group of surgeons, an anaesthesiologist and the operating theatre nurses were left standing around twiddling their thumbs until the porter eventually turned up and the second patient scheduled for surgery that day was wheeled into the operating theatre. As long as people refuse to admit that there are flaws in the NHS (a lot of which have nothing to do with funding) and that the NHS is not the envy of the world and start to have a grown-up discussion about what the NHS is for, how it should be funded and how do you Futureproof the system, then I do not see the present postcode lottery in terms of excellence of care as changing any time soon. 8 hours ago, New Haven Neil said: Having been in the past an administration manager of a very busy outpatients department, I totally fail to see how we could have been more efficient or less bureaucratic. With 8 staff (6 whole time equivalents) we were doing 49,000 appointments a year, servicing 42 clinics and 32 clinicians. Our service level agreement was for 35,000. And still we get slagged off. This is why I left the NHS. In any multi-disciplined organisation, there will always be those that do the job and those that "administer" it. Staffing levels become irrelevant if those employed have the right experience in their respective fields. I do not recall the full circumstances of your cyber-foot, but respect to suggest that if the medically qualified involved had not taken the decisions they did at the time, then things may have turned out different. We'll let admin sort it out later! Edited October 25, 2021 by JohnDMJ 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Today's ride nearly didn't happen. Got to our usual parking place near Hindlow and it was chukkinitdarn. We waited and a few minutes later it started to clear. The trail was very wet to start but improved later. We rode via Hartington and the Manifold valley before going over the top to Milldale then Alsop on the Tissington Trail. On the way back to Hindlow we were chased by two Apache Gunships travelling as Viper1 and Viper2. Seem to be getting quite common on that route, looks as it they put down at Barton Aerodrome before returning via Shawbury and possibly Brize Norton. Viper1 appears to have continued to Benson then round the north of London. Edited October 26, 2021 by TheSignalEngineer 19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said: I would offer you a slice of courgette cake but alas it does not travel well if unaccompanied. The alternative is that final assembly is performed on site by a technician accredited by the maker. Unfortunately l will be unable to perform either service before the last one of the season has been consumed. And bang goes TSE's Chrimbo Card....... In other news: Nearly new young lady neighbour called tonight (she with the VSPT - who by all accounts takes her T very seriously - especially in the middle of the night) - she wanted to let me know that they'll have work starting tomorrow "that will be noisy". Not a problem, as I'll probably be getting my own back before too long. Apparently - and after spending what Bear thinks must be a scary amount of money on tradesmen doing all sorts of work in the house - and very nice it looks too - the laminate floor in the side extension (it's an end of terrace) was being affected by damp. Anyway, people came to look, lifted some of the laminate to note the floor was damp; a trial pit was dug and they discovered wooden floor joints under a layer of concrete - with concrete poured between the floor joists - and no DPC underneath. Eeek. This handiwork pre-dates their purchase of the property (done some time last year IIRC). So it'll be about ten days' work to dig the whole lot out and do it properly apparently. I've a feeling the same clowns may also have done something to the kitchen floor, but I'm not sure what. I've not mentioned that yet - but I will cos' I know at some point they are talking about a new kitchen... Bear's fun tomorrow will be uncovering, shifting & re-covering lounge furniture against one wall to make room for removing some dodgy plaster on one area of the window wall, followed by getting the tools together for some heavy engineering. I'm meeting a couple of the College guys at the cafe at lunch time for a couple of hours so getting too involved in any messy work isn't an option really. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post monkeysarefun Posted October 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 3 hours ago, Barry O said: Strangling cats.. Great to annoy neighbours with..her indoors plays the shawm occasionally..just as good. Baz At work theres a member of the RAAF pipeband who practices Wednesday lunchtimes. Here is where he is allowed to do it. 1 17 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post andyram Posted October 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 Evening all. I hope this post finds you well. It has been sometime since I last posted on ER's and there has been plenty of reasons for that. I will not bore you with all of the details, but will provide a snapshot of one or two things. Firstly, I am pleased to say that things have been busy at the shop and I have also been discussing some new product ranges. There remains many challenges with running a, relatively new business, but I am very happy with the progress that the shop has made during the first three years of its life. When you consider I have faced an online fraud attack, flooding and then Covid, to have seen such progress despite the challenges is very pleasing and I remain hopeful that I have made the correct decision. Things are never dull and today has seen a large delivery of Thomas Minis advent calendars! During the recent weeks I have taken business out to a couple of local shows at Cotgrave and then Mickleover. After a slow start, Cotgrave managed to break my best ever show takings records. This was topped by the Mickleover event a few weeks later! Alongside the business, I continue to work on the online marking. The earnings from this means I don't need to stress about the business and can allow it to grow naturally. The job has been a case of "pay by pass" which means each assignment has to pass before I can invoice for the money. I have spent a couple of years working on marking assignment after assignment between customers and working on these until I have passed enough to hit my daily target to ensure that, by the end of the month, I have earned enough to pay all of my household bills. Recently that has changed and I have been offered a permanent paid position with the company as a Curriculum Lead. This means I will be overseeing a team of assessors and checking that their marking is up to standard, conducting training and re-writing new units for some of the courses. It comes with a regular wage. The great thing is, it is still a "work from home" job and I can continue to work on it in the shop. This means I no longer have to worry about end of month earnings and have a fixed contract of hours. I can work on this, whilst continuing to grow the business. It is the best of both worlds. There has been a bit of a busy period whilst the self employed assessor and the new role cross over. But things are settling down and I am enjoying it. The boss is fully aware of the shop (I did my Teams interview in the shop on a closed day, stood in front of my layout Skaleby West) and they are very supportive of the situation. On Saturday, as I drove to the shop, I passed a certain ex-headteacher who was out walking. For the first time there was no anger and no regret. Maybe, just maybe, I have started to emerge from the other side of the battle I have had. Hopefully the shop will continue to grow and, thanks to the new education role, has more time to develop into something much longer term. Sorry for the lengthier than planned post, but I wanted to update you all. Andy 20 9 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: ... and now Amazon will REALLY let me annoy the neighbours with this offer ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/plan-b-not-at-this-point/ I rated that Thanks John, for reminding me that it was Agincourt day. Another day to tease the neighbours about. Jamie Edited October 25, 2021 by jamie92208 4 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 G'night all 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just been looking at the back to back programs on Yesterday about things unmentionable here on ER's but I could add that a visit to the bookshop in the former railway station at Alnwick has been added to my bucket list. 16 minutes ago, andyram said: On Saturday, as I drove to the shop, I passed a certain ex-headteacher who was out walking. For the first time there was no anger and no regret. Maybe, just maybe, I have started to emerge from the other side of the battle I have had. Hopefully the shop will continue to grow and, thanks to the new education role, has more time to develop into something much longer term. Sorry for the lengthier than planned post, but I wanted to update you all. Andy I've seen no reports of any ex-headteachers being involved in hit and runs. Anyway, nice to see you back Andy and I hope your visits become a bit more frequent. 11 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 14 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: I rated that Thanks John, for reminding me that it was Agincourt day. Another day to tease the neighbours about. Also St Crispin and St Crispinian's day, martyred twins and the patron saints of shoemakers. The Charge of the Light Brigade also happened on this date, rather less successful than Agincourt. 7 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 The second hand bookshop that I mentioned above. https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/ 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Not sure if that should be classed as helpful, need another source of books like a hole in the head 1 2 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Night awl 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 Good evening everyone I arrived at Wythenshaw Hospital this morning, just after quarter past eight and was seen fairly promptly. In fact, I was stood at the car park pay station at just after quarter to nine! As it’s half term, the roads were a lot quieter than usual and I was parking up in Sainsbury’s car park just after ten past nine. I then dropped off Sheila’s prescription and competed the rest of the shopping very quickly. I was unloading the car at home at quarter past ten! After I’d packed away all the shopping, I finished making the fruit tea loaf that I’d left soaking last night. After which, I made myself a muggertea and retired to the living room and watched the latest Hornby program. After dinner I watched a documentary I recorded the other day about the Lancaster bomber. So I’ve not done a great deal today really, but I’ve enjoyed the rest. I’ve used courgettes in cakes, the result is very much like a carrot cake and absolutely delicious. Although, you do have to squeeze out most of the juice before adding them to the cake. Nice to see Andyram popping in again. 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted October 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2021 Goodnight all 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Adam88 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said: At work theres a member of the RAAF pipeband who practices Wednesday lunchtimes. Here is where he is allowed to do it. Yes, Australia's about the right sort of distance. 1 3 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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