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July 9, 2018 at 4:35 pm #487

One of the best things about London is that it is so different from area to area so you can often solve many problems by zoning in on what it is, in particular, that is making you unhappy. Your commute does sound awful and would drive most people mad – is there no way that you could rectify that, either by changing jobs or areas? There are few parts of London that don’t have affordable commuting options within 45 minutes. Happy to brainstorm by PM if you would prefer not to give away your office location publicly.

Otherwise, is it the lack of green space? Solvable, if not to the extent of endless rolling hills, but you can find areas either near a large park or full of lots of little ones. Some boroughs have more trees than others.

When you feel a bit down or stuck in life, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees, ie. the changes that would really improve your situation. I know many people who ended up leaving London for a smaller city. They love it, but in reality, they were living the London life in a way that was never going to make them happy. Just a simple location change would have enabled them to keep the aspects of London that they loved (friends, culture etc) while having a quieter life.

Anyway, in summary, it’s probably worth giving it one last shot.

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January 30, 2018 at 11:44 am #460

Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.

@red-1 Perhaps, but when you damage someone else’s property it’s up to them to let it go or not, so fess up.

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January 12, 2018 at 3:29 pm #427

I spoke to an A&E consultant who said that people were presenting because they couldn’t get a GP appointment.
As he said…if you have ongoing back pain for weeks, we’re not going to be able to fix it in one night.

My local trust are also trying to treat older people as far as possible at home, in care homes or in ambulance…it is another huge shock to the system on top of an existing health issue for an elderly person to be blue lighted to a crowded A&E in the middle of the night in their bedclothes to wait hours to be seen. Care homes are being told by OOH doctor to ‘ring 999’.
Hospital isn’t actually the best place, in a lot of cases.

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December 30, 2017 at 2:33 pm #398

We bought a house with two different causes of damp. One was easy to fix as it just involved guttering though that still involved sending my husband and his mate up ladders. I would not have done it for anything as scared of heights (so were they!)

The other involved digging up a concrete path that was not allowing free flow through the air bricks. It was hard work and cost a lot in terms of skip hire. Again my long suffering husband spent days with a breaker I could not even lift up to break the concrete we then spent hours loading it onto the skips. We still have more to do. The surveyor made all this sound so simple! (It is simple just time consuming and physically hard work).

I still love the house but my husband was rightly wary as it has been him that has had to do the hardest bits.

I still don’t know if this has worked yet and there are times when this coupled with everything else that needed fixing and the time it takes up I could have done without.

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October 6, 2017 at 1:20 pm #158

When my husband was a teenager, he was “warned” by the police for riding a horse while drunk.
I visited a communist country in the late 70s and there if you drank any alcohol when driving and were caught you went to prison, so the young professionals I was with didn’t at all. Made up for it when not driving though.

In a way it would be simpler if there was a 0 limit, then everyone would know simply not to even try to drink and drive.