Stormy Weather

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's been a funny old day. This morning I went out in a blizzard, (having found a broken metal coil under my car, I thought I'd better find out if it was a serious matter: apparently not), came back in sunshine, had lunch looking out at another snow flurry - and now it's sunny again with barely a cloud to be seen!


I don't think it's the Benelyn!

[salymap]

Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!

Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!

A scourge, a veritable scourge to we born in the balmy aquarian days of February

[Anna]

A scourge, a veritable scourge to we born in the balmy aquarian days of February

Aha! So Saly and I are Aries - the first sign of the Zodiac - courageous, fearless, questing warriors. You are right as a wish-washy child of never-never land and all that hippy Aquarius take your clothes off nonsense and talk to flowers to quiver and shrink in our path as we unleash our arrows!
Oh well, that's my fantasy for this evening sorted!
Funny to see snow still falling and rather a nice sun suddendly revealed in the West before settig.

[ahinton]

Funny to see snow still falling and rather a nice sun suddenly revealed in the West before setting.

Well, you kept the latter of those well and truly to your very Welsh self! I didn't see it here at all, over the now entirely misnamed Black Mountains in Herefordistan...

[Nick Armstrong]

You are right as a wish-washy child of never-never land and all that hippy Aquarius take your clothes off nonsense and talk to flowers to quiver and shrink in our path as we unleash our arrows!
Oh well, that's my fantasy for this evening sorted!

Delighted to have been of service...

[mangerton]

Indeed it is Caliban It is the month I was born - Nay, inflicted upon humanity, and how cruel is that!

I read below that you and salymap are both Arians. I am a fish, and your remark above indicates to me that you're fishing for compliments, though I must say I do like your Wodehousian turn of phrase.

[mangerton]

Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.

I must add my good wishes, saly. I do hope you get better soon. I know it's difficult to make a fuss, but sometimes it's the only option.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I read below that you and salymap are both Arians. I am a fish, and your remark above indicates to me that you're fishing for compliments, though I must say I do like your Wodehousian turn of phrase.

"Never fish for compliments in polluted waters." (Harvey Feinstein, Torch Song Trilogy).

[BBMmk2]

I am a Gemini!! :)

Well, what a turnaround! Down these neck of the woods, its like a spring day. Aleit, rather nippy still!

[amateur51]

Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.

i've been telling her for weeks to burst into tears in the surgery but will she push herself forwards, Jules? You gotta be bold, Mister Horne

[Serial_Apologist]

i've been telling her for weeks to burst into tears in the surgery but will she push herself forwards, Jules? You gotta be bold, Mister Horne

My father, aged 92, was taken for a check-up at Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstowe. While waiting to be seen, to he got chatting to another elderly patient, who mentioned to him that this was the third time she had attended, after threel cancelled appointments, having travelled by bus all the way from West Ham. Shortly, a member of staff arrived to tell the lady that he was sorry, but they were unable to see her that day, and she would have to make another appointment. "Now just you look here, young man", Dad butted in, "this poor lady has had to come all the way here three times already. If you don't attend to her right away, I shall be writing to the Daily Telegraph and getting in touch with my MP, who just happens to be a government minister, to say what a rotten service you offer at this hospital". "Um, I'll see what I can do" replied the flustered attendant. Within five minutes a much more important looking employee in a suit emerged, and told the woman, "I've made arrangements for you to be seen to in the next half hour".

That seemed to work!

[amateur51]

My father, aged 92, was taken for a check-up at Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstowe. While waiting to be seen, to he got chatting to another elderly patient, who mentioned to him that this was the third time she had attended, after threel cancelled appointments, having travelled by bus all the way from West Ham. Shortly, a member of staff arrived to tell the lady that he was sorry, but they were unable to see her that day, and she would have to make another appointment. "Now just you look here, young man", Dad butted in, "this poor lady has had to come all the way here three times already. If you don't attend to her right away, I shall be writing to the Daily Telegraph and getting in touch with my MP, who just happens to be a government minister, to say what a rotten service you offer at this hospital". "Um, I'll see what I can do" replied the flustered attendant. Within five minutes a much more important looking employee in a suit emerged, and told the woman, "I've made arrangements for you to be seen to in the next half hour".

That seemed to work!

Attaboy, S_A's dad!!

[EdgeleyRob]

It's been a funny old day. This morning I went out in a blizzard,..................................came back in sunshine, had lunch looking out at another snow flurry - and now it's sunny again with barely a cloud to be seen!

Similar sort of day in Manchester.

Many thanks to kind people who have replied to my moans. Our doctor left to go private some time ago and we have a series of locums who seem to pop in occasionally. Iam quite capable of making a fuss, but surrounded by a waiting room full of people with 'hacking' coughs it is difficult to do that. A lot of illness around atm.
However, after Easter I will insist on a doctor at the first opportunity, promise.

And Anna, I'm an April baby too. And no lilacs out of the dead ground here either.

Best wishes from me too Saly.

I share my birthday with Brahms and Tchaikovsky no less,oh yes!

[Serial_Apologist]

Attaboy, S_A's dad!!

For all his reactionary authoritarianism towards myself and Mum, he did on occasion overcome his obsequiousness - that other side to his dual personality - and take on authority when it really mattered.

Two things I forgot to mention were that the senior person he summoned at that hospital - "I want to speak to whoever is in charge!" - was in fact the senior administrator, who happened to be on the premises at the time; and to add that he didn't in fact know any government minister - he made that one up!