Whilst watching a programme
recently about hospitals, I was reminded of a medical test I had to carry out
some years ago whilst living in my flat.
To cut a long story short, I was having tests for kidney function and
one of the procedures was to carry out monitoring over a weekend of my fluid
input and output. Simple enough to do as
I only drink bottled water so the input was easy to calculate, however the
output was a little trickier. Had I been
a chap I could simply have re-used the water bottles, however being a girly I
needed something, shall we say, a little larger to wee into. I went out and bought a large Pyrex measuring
jug and carried out the monitoring. Job
done, figures noted and given to the GP.
Despite scalding the jug several times after the final use, I could
never quite bring myself to use it for foodstuffs. I had no qualms though about leaving it for
the tenants who subsequently rented the property from me when I moved out of
the area. Well the prospectus did say
the flat was fully equipped.............
Last weekend I was back at
Silverstone for the Classic Car racing event.
It was a great two days, the weather was hot and sunny (cue more
sunburn) and the grandstands had plenty of covered space. As usual, I witnessed many examples of blatant
ignorance of basic health and safety sense on the circuit inner roads (being on
private roads seems to make people take leave of rationality), some of the
‘best’ being..........three people on a moped (no helmets of course); more
people sitting in small sports cars than there were seats for them; and four
children stacked one behind the other in a single buggy. In the evening we watched Adam Ant performing
on stage at the event.......since his heyday he has had a range of
psychological issues but even allowing for this, his appearance and act were
far removed from how I remembered him – he even forgot the words to Prince
Charming. No longer the dandy highwayman
we knew back then, such a shame really.
The school holidays have finally
kicked in and with it has come a wave of antisocial behaviour from a group of
young teens. Many people one night this
week were kept awake by shouting and high jinks well into the early hours, a
local shop had an attempted break in and very drunken teens were vomiting,
urinating and doing other unmentionables outside my friend’s house during the
evening of the final day of term. A
group of teens spent the night sleeping outside the local leisure centre and as
for the graffiti that has appeared on the walls of the same building plus on
the front wall of an old folks residential flats, well all I can say is these
kids should be in summer school to (a) learn how to spell and (b) be reminded
that some words are simply unacceptable in society. Where are the parents of all these
children? What do they think they are
doing when out till late? We were all
teenagers once but certainly never got up to anything like we are seeing
now. Once again there is a demonstration
that some people have no respect or sense of responsibility. Fortunately I know many teens that are completely
the opposite of these hoodlums and would never consider behaving in such a
manner.
Breaking news.................the
conservatory is due to be finished this week!!!
Yes, the skirting is being fitted (allegedly) tomorrow. Bearing in mind this has gone on for four
months now, I took on the task of chasing up the works. I tried over the weekend to send a fax
outlining our dissatisfaction but it wouldn’t go through. On speaking to the company on Monday morning
I was advised that they no longer accept incoming faxes. Oh how helpful and why do they still have the
number on business stationary? It was
like trying to raise the dead getting hold of the manager I needed and in fact
I never did succeed, however he called my parents to confirm works will happen
before the weekend. It does actually
remain to be seen whether this modern day miracle occurs but I have offered to
erect bunting around the room in the event of a successful outcome.
As I have been typing, I have
received an email from Eurostar advising me of the timetable for the ski train service!!!!!
Hello, it is July, the sun is out, it is due to be 27 degrees by noon, what are
you playing at??
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