WAMT....what annoyed me today!

andya700 said:
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.
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Playing devils' advocate, if I was expecting an important call, I'd make sure my phone was on noisy overnight so I didn't miss the call. I'd also go straight to A&E rather than waste time on 111.
 
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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There is a notice at the end of our road now

"Advance Warning. This road will be closed. For 2 days"

No mention of which days though, we have had a leaflet through the door with the dates on but other motorists won't have a clue!
 
Posted this in WBMT:-
"I tried to book a holiday, so my credit card was blocked????? I rang them, took aaaaaaages to sort out due to "security" and was told that it would be working OK within 5 to 10 minutes. Seven hours later and my card is still blocked! Doh! At least nobody is stealing my hard earned. Even I can't get to it! Nor can Paypal, Amazon or Ebay, who should be able to! GRRRRRRRRRR."

It's still blocked!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Bankers? Well, it rhymes! Happy New Year! :rolleyes:
 
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And there's more! WAMT several journeys up and down the loft ladder (fibreglass dust triggering my asthma) carrying boxes of Chinese Christmas Plastic Cr*p (only 25% used as it's not in this year's "theme colour!" No doubt, the whole operation will be repeated again, next year, as it has for the past number of years! Off to get my inhaler! Doh!
 
Pixbarmy said:
And there's more! WAMT several journeys up and down the loft ladder (fibreglass dust triggering my asthma) carrying boxes of Chinese Christmas Plastic Cr*p (only 25% used as it's not in this year's "theme colour!" No doubt, the whole operation will be repeated again, next year, as it has for the past number of years! Off to get my inhaler! Doh!
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Our lot waiting for me to take it up.

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SO much easier when you leave it all in the loft!!!
 
Nod said:
SO much easier when you leave it all in the loft!!!
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Cockney said:
You've not met my wife have you? :D
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ancient_mariner said:
That looks strikingly like ours, down to the apple box, fake candle arch and flappy plastic crate.
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I've been reliably "informed" that most of it is going to the charity shop next November (as it's getting too much for "us" to go up and down ladders at "our" age!). Result!!! Yeahhhhh!
Oh! Hang on a minute......................................
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Well Christmas morning actually.
I woke up looked out the window to find an almost new 4 x 4 parked out front!

I wondered which of my kids had bought it for me.
When they came round later, I asked for the keys to take it for a spin.
Imagine my disappointment, when neither of them had the keys.

:D
 
Last night I went to rhe SWFC vs Hull game.
Took the Lumix TZ90 as my commitment to more photography this year.
Did some comprehensive experiments with action shots using the 4k pre and post shutter burst. Different zooms, exposure, aperture, etc etc.
Came home, glass Merlot while one eye on the Liverpool game on telly, whilst reviewing results on camera.
Promptly wiped every image from the card.
At least we won.
 
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Pixbarmy said:
Posted this in WBMT:-
"I tried to book a holiday, so my credit card was blocked????? I rang them, took aaaaaaages to sort out due to "security" and was told that it would be working OK within 5 to 10 minutes. Seven hours later and my card is still blocked! Doh! At least nobody is stealing my hard earned. Even I can't get to it! Nor can Paypal, Amazon or Ebay, who should be able to! GRRRRRRRRRR."

It's still blocked!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Bankers? Well, it rhymes! Happy New Year! :rolleyes:
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and finally!...................... Had to ring again! (another half hour of my life wasted....... "You are in a queue........ Your call is important to us....................") It seems that me putting money into the account before using the credit card, triggered their "Bot" as "unusual activity" and the card was blocked! Now cleared and normal service is resumed. Our lives are being frustrated by bots and technology, rather than being enhanced! They don't "think" like us! :)
 
Pixbarmy said:
Our lives are being frustrated by bots and technology, rather than being enhanced! They don't "think" like us! :)
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You miss the point, Mike.

They think exactly like that small band of unsung heroes and heroines: the jobsworths. No longer do those people have to come to the office, just to tell you that you can't do that. Now they can be promoted to "proper work": making sure that into everyones' life, a lot of rain will fall.

It's called progress. :whistle:
 
Cockney said:
You've not met my wife have you? :D
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I started to dismantle the Christmas Tree etc yesterday morning at 9.00am...lol. I heard a voice from 'somewhere' "What are you doing ?.. "Well it's New Year's day." I'm not allowed to take it all down until tomorrow.

It's my wife who likes to have the tree etc. Infact, last year the plastic tree we'd had for years finally collapsed. I'd managed to use superglue on it for a couple of years so, when we were getting fat balls. bird seed from Range this time last year we. I mean my wife, saw an 8' £160 plastic Christmas tree reduced to £17 to clear.. :eek: It's what I put up on December 23rd. I try to get as near to Christmas Day as I can get away with...:D. I'd negotiated to December 20th but she forgot and I got away with another three days..lol.
 
Our tree is still there as are the many Xmas cards. They will stay until the 6th Jan but not because of the 12th night tradition but because my son and family is visiting on the 6th and he will be bringing our granddaughter aged 8 months. They have just returned from Australia so I think they wanted a little UK traditional Xmas.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
Our tree is still there as are the many Xmas cards. They will stay until the 6th Jan but not because of the 12th night tradition but because my son and family is visiting on the 6th and he will be bringing our granddaughter aged 8 months. They have just returned from Australia so I think they wanted a little UK traditional Xmas.

Dave
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Quite right,too..especially for the little 'un. You're excused.. :D
 
JohnC6 said:
Quite right,too..especially for the little 'un. You're excused.. :D
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My Son has just contacted me as he has COVID caught on the plane on the way back from Australia so this weekend cancelled. So we have moved his visit to the 20th Jan. The tree will now come down today but my wife sent him a picture of the tree lit up.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
My Son has just contacted me as he has COVID caught on the plane on the way back from Australia so this weekend cancelled. So we have moved his visit to the 20th Jan. The tree will now come down today but my wife sent him a picture of the tree lit up.

Dave
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That's miserable - hope he recovers quickly.
 
Come home again after just an hour at work - effectively sent home. It's NOT covid (had that in December) but just a nasty cold that's given me a vicious cough and thick(er?) head.
 
Dave Canon said:
My Son has just contacted me as he has COVID caught on the plane on the way back from Australia so this weekend cancelled. So we have moved his visit to the 20th Jan. The tree will now come down today but my wife sent him a picture of the tree lit up.

Dave
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Whatever the latest strain is seems to be making headway here,too. That's really dissapointing for him as well as being a miserable thing to get.

Have a read of this.. https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2023/11/we-re-in-a-new-covid-wave--what-can-we-expect-this-time-
 
ancient_mariner said:
Come home again after just an hour at work - effectively sent home. It's NOT covid (had that in December) but just a nasty cold that's given me a vicious cough and thick(er?) head.
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I had COVID again in early November but it was very mild. However, about four weeks later I developed a nasty cold/cough which needed treatment by anti-biotics and steroids. I have no evidence that the cold/cough was related to COVID but did wonder.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
I had COVID again in early November but it was very mild. However, about four weeks later I developed a nasty cold/cough which needed treatment by anti-biotics and steroids. I have no evidence that the cold/cough was related to COVID but did wonder.

Dave
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In our case, I think it's an opportunistic infection, taking more of a toll because my wife and I are already weakened by COVID.
 
Over several days actually.
Our local village pub is up this steep hill.
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Their sewer goes under the land we bought when extending the garden. It's broken. We have rats and theres no prizes for what Yorkshire Water have filled those green bags with. We're A1 priorityand expecting them back today. Pubs still open.
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Just as we were going to bed last night, there was a loud bang. Having 2 cats, our first thought was that something had found its way from a shelf/table to the floor, but no.

Coming downstairs this morning, I got into my chair only to realise one of my tyres was flat and that this was what the babg was.

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so it's a trip to Halfords for a new inner tube tomorrow!
 
Bit of a PITA, Marc! I'd get a couple of tubes just in case it happens again.
 
How strange!
I carry a tube with me, easier to change a tube than repair a puncture.
 
Train Mrs F to do it!!! (And duck!!!)
 
More seriously, for punctures, I'd suggest something like Gorilla Snot but stem failures are harder to avoid.
 
Nod said:
More seriously, for punctures, I'd suggest something like Gorilla Snot but stem failures are harder to avoid.
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That's the first stem failure I've ever seen. Running under-inflated can cause the tyre to rotate on the rim, but that usually causes the tube to tear inside the tyre (happened to my mother once before I started looking for the warning signs).
 
Marc said:
Coming downstairs this morning, I got into my chair only to realise one of my tyres was flat and that this was what the babg was.
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Blimey I bet that was a wheelie wheelie big bang.

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About 18 months ago we had a new kitchen installed. We had an induction hob put in and above it a large expensive (£630) Neff extractor fan. A week later, at 2.00am, we heard an almighty crash. Surely, not a burglar. I went downstairs into the kitchen to find the extractor fan in pieces on the induction hob glass with the electric cable still attached along with glass all over the worktops and the floor.The two fitters came round that afternoon. They had used the screws supplied but,really, to my mind, they weren't long or thick enough.That was my first thought but a DIY friend said that the fitters just had the misfortune to drill into a cavity in the wall rather than brick. Our home was built in 1973 so it has brick walls between rooms not the plasterboard that's installed these days. Amazingly, the induction hob didn't even have a scratch. Goodness knows what they're made of. It works fine.

A new fan was fitted ,along with profuse apologies, within a few days so all's well that end's well, as they say. I can still hear that crash in my mind to this day.
 
£228:00 for a new car battery! It is one of those stop-start ones though:(
 
I'll have that bill at the end of the month! Lived without it for the past 18 months or so but feel I should probably have it.
 
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