WAMT....what annoyed me today!

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I’ve got an infection on a tooth root so antibiotics for 5 days. No drinkies until the day after Boxing Day :(
 
Norkie said:
WAMT?

I’ve got an infection on a tooth root so antibiotics for 5 days. No drinkies until the day after Boxing Day :(
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I have sympathy as I started a 5 day course of anti-biotics today so I can start drink again on Xmas Day. I only drink in moderation anyway.

Dave
 
luthy said:
My mother is in her 90s and lives alone yes people call every day to help her and check on her. Some things shes fine with but others not so. She now has trouble putting a DVD on and playing it. She doesnt have asmart phone shecan just about manage her ordinary mobile. The internet is a complete mystery to her. She could use it a little a few years ago but no longer.
How do they expect her and her peers to manage if everything goes on line???
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My mother died ten years ago aged 90 but she had mastered the internet, emails and Microsoft Office. Part of the reason was because her hobby of tracing family trees involved internet searches and contact with people from the same family living in other countries (usually USA, Australia and New Zealand) . This gave her motivation to attend the then regular local IT training courses which were initiated by Tony Blair but stopped far to soon by the same government. My wife also took advantage of the training which has been invaluable to her as well.
Such training would be a good investment, though I accept that it will not suit everyone. You cannot turn back the technology but at least give more people the opportunity to join in.

Dave
 
It's cyclists that do that here. Super-bright torches aimed at oncoming drivers.
 
DHL yesterday.

I got an email yesterday saying DHL had delivered a parcel.

There were three of us in the house all day yesterday. It is a small terraced house and Mrs T was sitting in a room about 15 feet from the front door at the alleged time of delivery and we have a 13 year old wireless door bell in the form of a crossed fell terrier called Dino. Absolutely nothing even touches the front door without him letting everybody know, very loudly and often he hears someone getting out of a car across the road.

When I looked out the front there was the parcel propped up near the door!

Dave
 
Amazon delivery drivers delivering a gift we’d sent to someone in their wheelie bin!

I have no words…

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Had a delivery from Evri yesterday. No knock on the door, but we did notice somebody walk past the front room window and cast a large shadow into the blinds. So, two things that annoyed me, one he couldn't be arsed to even knock on the door, and he walked across my garden, not down the path (That really does wind me up for some reason).
 
What annoys me is when the Amazon delivery guy can’t be bothered to ring or knock when we are obviously in, and all you get is an email saying ‘how was your delivery’ I would like a number to call to tell them exactly what the delivery was like
 
They can't please everyone. :D

What annoys me is ringing the door chime, it's loud and immediately knocking the seven bells of s***e out of the door knocker. One did that a couple of days ago and he must have seen me in the living room. This is true. Some time ago when e one driver did that when I opened the front door I walked past him a few metres onto the drive looking up and down the road asking what the emergencvy was.. I smiled, didn't want to cause an atmosphere and explained why I'd done it and he smiled. He said he did it in case I hadn't heard the chime.I'm sure the neighbours three doors away can hear our doorbell chime . :)
 
999 call handlers.

Why are they sometimes so... seemingly disinterested and dismissive.

Found a guy today semi conscious and bleeding, don't really know if he was off his head on something recreational or if he'd been attacked, whatever the cause he obviously needed some help. At one point he got up and tried to stagger off but was clearly very unstable and would have been in real danger if he'd made it to the roadside "Oh, well, if he's up and walking..." was the call handlers comment.

Dialing 999 is not that regular a thing for me but on several occasions I've been left thinking that the call handlers really just wanted me off the phone so that they could get back to their coffee. Oh, and despite being given a clear description of where the guy was and which road and direction to approach from the ambulance went to the wrong location.
 
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Tigger.ufo said:
WAMT

Waking up with a sore throat and a cough.

Negative covid test though.
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Same here, although my post-covid cough never went away from 3 weeks ago. This was likely from our great nephew and his no-stop cough that we spent many hours with on Christmas eve, we're both feeling crappy tonight.

Also collected a deer on the front of the car this evening:
Tigger.ufo said:
WAMT ... How unreasonably bright a lot of car headlights are now
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With more normal headlights we might have had a chance to see it there first. Damage is significant but not, I think, structural, with loss of much plastic bodywork on the drivers side front wing. The deer probably did a lot worse out of the deal than us, and I'm sorry for that too, though I doubt it lived long afterwards.
 
Well yesterday, now I know that it wasn't a good day to travel yesterday and there were as I found out many road closures, now while that's annoying enough, it's not nearly as annoying as driving miles down a road only to find it closed and having to then drive all the way back, would it really all that difficult just to put a notice at the junction to let people know.
 
tarric said:
Well yesterday, now I know that it wasn't a good day to travel yesterday and there were as I found out many road closures, now while that's annoying enough, it's not nearly as annoying as driving miles down a road only to find it closed and having to then drive all the way back, would it really all that difficult just to put a notice at the junction to let people know.
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or you ge a sign saying "Road Ahead Closed". Which road? I have made diversions before only to find that the roads I wanted were fine, it is just a small side road that is closed.
or https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...musing-sign-shots.391319/page-33#post-9182698
 
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Suvv said:
or you ge a sign saying "Road Ahead Closed". Which road? I have made diversions before only to find that the roads I wanted were fine, it is just a small side road that is closed.
or https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...musing-sign-shots.391319/page-33#post-9182698
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This is something of a trend, with signs now being posted suggesting, as you say, that a road is closed when it really isn't. We've had quite a bit of that in north Oxfordshire too, though that may not be compensation for the inconvenience caused. ;)
 
ancient_mariner said:
This is something of a trend, with signs now being posted suggesting, as you say, that a road is closed when it really isn't.
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Even better here, they shut roads with no diversion signs, if you know the area its easy enough to circumvent.
If you don't you are screwed :D
 
Round here locals chucking the advance warning signs (I.e. "road closed ahead") into the ditch isn't unknown if they live before the actual closure and don't want to keep driving around them....
 
Cobra said:
Even better here, they shut roads with no diversion signs, if you know the area its easy enough to circumvent.
If you don't you are screwed :D
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Oh yes that’s caught me out before, I used to travel overnight for my photography trips down south to miss the Birmingham traffic, an overnight road closure at a country roundabout somewhere I wasn’t familiar with got me lost for an hour
Its not worth travelling overnight anymore as there’s always at least one road shut
 
Any time I'm travelling that's time sensitive, I look at the AA's Route Planner to see if there are any significant hold ups. They usually have road closures listed with timings of closures.
 
Nod said:
Any time I'm travelling that's time sensitive, I look at the AA's Route Planner to see if there are any significant hold ups. They usually have road closures listed with timings of closures.
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Ahh I see thanks didn’t know about that
Heard of route planer but didn’t know they covered closures
 
Nod said:
Any time I'm travelling that's time sensitive, I look at the AA's Route Planner to see if there are any significant hold ups. They usually have road closures listed with timings of closures.
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LCPete said:
Ahh I see thanks didn’t know about that
Heard of route planer but didn’t know they covered closures
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What could be useful and I found out about a short while back was this website about planned & current roadworks by utilities & highways companies.

Causeway one.network

One platform to plan, monitor, communicate and analyse traffic disruptions.
one.network one.network
 
The last of my Christmas presents hasn't arrived yet. My wife has Emailed the retailer and received replies assuring her they've despatched it and giving her a tracking number and hopes she gets it soon and thanks for her patience. She ordered it on the 17th December.The carrier is Evri...oh dear..Evri replied to my wife stating that they don't recognise the tracking number. Back to the retailer. Awaiting a further response. A scam ? I don't know. A check by my wife showed that someone else had a problem and thought it was a scam but it seems it's down to poor admin. by the retailer. My wife won't tell me who the retailer is at the moment because if she did I'd know what the present was.

Re Evri A copy/paste.

"More than 43,000 MoneySavers took part, casting over 300,000 votes. Evri received more than 39,000 votes, with 62% rating it as 'poor', up from 48% in 2022. This was significantly worse than the other firms at the bottom of our poll – 39% rated Yodel as 'poor', while 22% rated UK Mail as 'poor'. "
 
Box Brownie said:
What could be useful and I found out about a short while back was this website about planned & current roadworks by utilities & highways companies.

Causeway one.network

One platform to plan, monitor, communicate and analyse traffic disruptions.
one.network one.network
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I use this a lot as there are currently loads of roadworks near me!
 
Box Brownie said:
What could be useful and I found out about a short while back was this website about planned & current roadworks by utilities & highways companies.

Causeway one.network

One platform to plan, monitor, communicate and analyse traffic disruptions.
one.network one.network
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One is quite good for planned works but can be slow to show emergency roadworks. The AA one is pretty much live and shows how well the traffic is moving.
 
We ordered a photo book circa £130 and it was left in the rain by the delivery guy outside our house and became warped. We contacted the company who very kindly sent out another which we noted last night when we got in down the side of a flowerpot, yes it had rained all day and yes was warped again!
 
Pringle breaking off in a cheese and chive dip.
Sent in a rescue pringle and that broke too :(

I gave up with the reconnaissance idea and went in with a finger
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Cobra said:
Pringle breaking off in a cheese and chive dip.
Sent in a rescue pringle and that broke too :(

Gave up with the recognisance idea and went in with a finger
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This is where Doritos come into their own. Solid as plywood. :D
 
Cockney said:
This is where Doritos come into their own. Solid as plywood. :D
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I'm sure pringles are getting thinner.
I don't normally have that problem.
 
I need to replace one of the bath 3/4" tap glands..............the mixer tap is an old design with compression valves not the more modern ceramic 1/4 turn cartridges.

It turns out 3/4/" units are like hens teeth :( I can buy and have done in the past suitable ones for the wash basin.

Having found a source (I will need to swap the washer over to the bevel edge one from the flat 'Holdtite' type) and ordered it.....................then I find the same company has a different division under another trading name and the same item is £1.80 less.
In the first case where I ordered they charge P&P, the other charges a tad more but the delivery is FOC.
NB the washer swap is due to that the tap is a AS Star Lite and its valve seats are tapered so uses dome/beveled washers i.e. flat washers will not sit & seal well.

Alright £1.80 is not a lot but if I could have cancelled the order online I would have done and saved that bit of money.
 
Had pains in my lower left abdomen yesterday morning. The pains got worse, so my two options were - go to A&E, phone 111. Unfortunately I chose the latter, phoned them and waited 50 minutes for an answer. After going through an extensive triage, none of which was to do with my specific pain, I was told that a clinician would phone me back within 6 hours - ie before 0915 PM. At 10.00 PM, I turned down the heating and an hour later, put my phone on silent, set up my CPAP machine and went to sleep. I got up an hour ago, looked at my phone and had a missed call - 0226 AM. Do they really think that people with several medical issues are going to sit up in a freezing house to wait indefinitely for a phonecall? From what I have Googled over the last hour, this is a very common thing, to the point where I think it is deliberate behaviour, aimed at getting rid of patients.
 
andya700 said:
...to the point where I think it is deliberate behaviour, aimed at getting rid of patients.
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Or perhaps, it's an overstretched, under funded health service doing the best it can, after a succession of tory governments have screwed it and the people it tries to care for.

Remember "there's no such thing as society"?
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Or perhaps, it's an overstretched, under funded health service doing the best it can, after a succession of tory governments have screwed it and the people it tries to care for.

Remember "there's no such thing as society"?
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I agree. Have you thought about sending the details in your posting about what happened when you phoned 111 to your MP or local paper?

Dave
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Or perhaps, it's an overstretched, under funded health service doing the best it can, after a succession of tory governments have screwed it and the people it tries to care for.

Remember "there's no such thing as society"?
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Looking at my own GP surgery, I know that they are not even trying. The receptionists there, all five of them are like guards on the Berlin Wall, nothing gets past them.
 
andya700 said:
Looking at my own GP surgery, I know that they are not even trying. The receptionists there, all five of them are like guards on the Berlin Wall, nothing gets past them.
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There have been a few reports about the surgery my parents using being one of the lowest ranked in the country for performance, after around a year it appears they have noticed and are very slowly improving. The parents have noticed the absence of one particular phone operator/receptionist in tandem with this improvement…
 
andya700 said:
Looking at my own GP surgery, I know that they are not even trying. The receptionists there, all five of them are like guards on the Berlin Wall, nothing gets past them.
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The "guard dog" mentality of some receptionists is a long standing problem in the GP world, We're OK at our surgery, where the receptionists know their jobs well and are both helpfull and friendly.
 
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