Yodel - Parcel stuck at Hayes since Sunday and delivery estimated at next Sunday to Wednesday???? It's basically an envelope with a guitar pickguard inside. Royal mail would have been quicker! I'm suspecting that "Hayes" is a receiving depot in China and that the "London" based Ebay seller is dodging VAT!
I always scroll down the listing to look for for seeker/listing details, today a product marked as being in the UK has a Chinese company as origin, who’s knows where/when it’ll arrive from, so I just kept looking.I've had that a few times...Ebay advert stating UK seller and UK stock.... and the stuff gets sent from China...
I've had some where it listed a London address, said UK stock but then it came from China....
I will get a letter eventually but there’s currently a five week backlog for letter writing. She’s not able to tell me the result of the review, I’ll have to wait for the letter.
If you go a google maps search for the UK address you usually find it is a small office or even house...that tells you straight away it is coming form China.
I think I have been very lucky regarding the NHS, especially since moving to Wiltshire. I have stage 4 kidney disease, and will need a transplant at some point. That said, I have an appointment with the Kidney consultant every 3 months, sometimes in person, sometimes by phone. Because I will eventually need major surgery, I've already been in with a cardiac specialist to make sure I can take the stress of the operation, and they have run several tests to make sure. I have the green light for the op, but my kidney performance has actually gone up in recent months, probably due to diet and the amount of water my wife makes me drink.More NHS grumbles. I had a PSA test done at the beginning of the year. The test result came back slightly higher than average so I was sent for an MRI to check nothing suspicious was going on. This came back with no problems showing, but the consultant asked for a repeat test later in the year just to make sure.
Roll on 6 months, I get another PSA test done and a few weeks later I’m invited by letter to a “virtual appointment” with the consultant. No indication of time, just a day. It turns out we’re away on holiday that day so I ring the dedicated number for the Urology department on the letter, but nobody answers so I end up being diverted and talking to the general receptionist at outpatients. I explain I can’t make the virtual appointment and she says no problems, I’ll message Urology and ask them to rearrange it.
I get a new appointment letter sent out with a revised date. I wait in all that day but nobody contacts me. I ring Urology the next day and again there’s nobody answering the phone so I end up back with outpatient reception. They advise me to email the consultant but they quickly check my records and tell me it looks like I’ve been discharged?
I email the consultant. A week or so later I get a snotty email response from his secretary. A “virtual appointment” is just a case review where the consultant sits down to look at his notes… I don’t need to be there and there IS never a phone call.
So…. why advise me of this virtual appointment if really I had no need to know? Why was it even rearranged if I didn’t need to be around or consulted on the day? And why doesn’t outpatient reception know this? I still haven’t had the letter either, so I checked with my GP: everything’s fine, nothing to worry about, you’ve been discharged.
What a shambles.
I needed a new remote for my garage door, googled the part number on it and got of options at £25-£35, scrolled along and found one on aliexpress at 99p+tax! So take a chance and off went the order, 5 days later it turned up, £1.02 inc tax, it even included batteries, tremendous value and around the time I’ve had UK deliveries, that’ll be my win for the year.
I haven't got a shed so I keep mine under the stairs, obviously.
Rest assured you are not the only one.......I have been told it falls into the spectrum(?) of OCDI've already populated the shelves. Mrs WW can rearrange things when she gets home but I just wanted to give her a start.
I've been aware of this all my working life and beyond but that doesn't stop it annoying me. I know that Mrs WW will never ever notice or comment, I know that, but I also know it'll annoy me every single time I enter the room and I know it'll annoy me every single time I enter the room as I know I'll have to look at it every single time I enter the room. I'll just have to look
I put three pictures up in the front room measuring down from the ceiling rather than mounting them level and they look ok. The only annoying thing was that the mountings on the back aren't in exactly the same place, they vary slightly from picture from to picture frame by up to 8mm so each one had to be measured and mounted accordingly. I assume these things are made in a factory so why not get it right? A jig would take seconds to make. Grrrr.
Mrs WW says I'm the only person who cares about these things and no one else in the world would notice or care about the things I obsess over but I know I'm not the only one
Rest assured you are not the only one.......I have been told it falls into the spectrum(?) of OCD
I've accepted that if I was a youngster today I'd be on a spectrum or three but at least my little quirks have suited the jobs I did. Computers, quality management, health and safety and product approvals all suited me very well and paid for my early retirement. The only real negatives in life and in contact with other people are the sensitivity to noise and other stimulants, the counting and doing repetitive things when they really aren't necessary (er... Stop it. The door is locked and you know it is. It doesn't need locking again) trouble recognising faces and Mrs WW telling me I'm an alien.
Glad I'm not the only one on this forum
Nah! I tend to like multiples of 3
I've already populated the shelves. Mrs WW can rearrange things when she gets home but I just wanted to give her a start.
I've been aware of this all my working life and beyond but that doesn't stop it annoying me. I know that Mrs WW will never ever notice or comment, I know that, but I also know it'll annoy me every single time I enter the room and I know it'll annoy me every single time I enter the room as I know I'll have to look at it every single time I enter the room. I'll just have to look
I put three pictures up in the front room measuring down from the ceiling rather than mounting them level and they look ok. The only annoying thing was that the mountings on the back aren't in exactly the same place, they vary slightly from picture from to picture frame by up to 8mm so each one had to be measured and mounted accordingly. I assume these things are made in a factory so why not get it right? A jig would take seconds to make. Grrrr.
Mrs WW says I'm the only person who cares about these things and no one else in the world would notice or care about the things I obsess over but I know I'm not the only one
We all(?) have our foibles but as the article you quote infers, is where 'they' lead to anxiety and other manifestations that possibly some attention needs to be paid to them
We all(?) have our foibles but as the article you quote infers, is where 'they' lead to anxiety and other manifestations that possibly some attention needs to be paid to them
Further in regard to things needing to "look right"....
Back in the 60's (I think mid to late?) one of neighbours was the first (that we knew of) to buy a colour TV......as was the way back then they showed it off (though that may have the mindset of those folks) and I was struck by the fact that the whites had a very distinct green hue.
When I mentioned this to my dad afterwards saying 'perhaps they should get it adjusted....'? Suffice to say when my dad eventually got us a colour TV we made sure to look at examples in the shop and not get the Phillips brand like the neighbours, we got a Hitachi and it was superb and lasted a good many years. When it needed replacing my dad bought the same brand.
PS I was always from an early age 'into the details'.
) and the number of times I did not recognise them was awkward but I learned quickly that it was better to say up front that I needed a reminder than to leave it until the end or not all
Put on an Aussie accent and call everyone MateRE: recognising faces/people
Not so much a problem more an embarrassment.......
When I was working for a couple of companies that did 3 to 4 exhibitions per year it was always a case of inviting ones customers and in the main I would recognise them as they approached. NB the customer base could be anywhere to 1500 - 3500 companies overall and in my area around 250 - 300 and sometimes seeing up to 8 per day.....it could at times be a bit of blur so contextual referencing was important.
However, in the job I was in between 1980 to I think 1986 I was selling into the laboratory services e.g. NHS labs and water companies & universities. Now, all such contacts the they wore lab coats (typically white) and other gear. So my brain associated the coats and the context of the environment with the person (pattern recognition
Actually,Alan.. my contribution was more on the wider issue of perceived OCD versus perfection, if you like, and a desire to have things 'just so' rather than the minutiae involved in getting a shelf to look straight and,in this case, at the correct level for your wife. I don't agree with your last comment for reasons that I set out in my original response to you.
