[Katy]

Katy

January 30, 2018 at 11:48 am #464

@fi You raise an interesting point there. Insurance Companies instruct you not to make any admission of liability in the event of an accident, so if you bump someone’s car in a car park, how do you word your owning up note?

It could be quite amusing, and maybe something along these lines?

” I regret that an incident occurred this afternoon in Tesco’s car park in which the back of your car, which was stationary and parked, collided with the front of my car which was moving forwards. Slight damage occurred to both cars and I have taken photographs. If you would care to telephone me on xxxxxx I should be happy to discuss this matter further, Signed Joe Bloggs”

Or

“I regret that an incident occurred his afternoon in Tesco’s car park in which the front of my car which was moving forwards collided with the back of your car which was stationary and parked, Slight damage etc etc….”

On reflection maybe the second is less antagonistic…..

That, hopefully will keep your insurers happy if the owner of the parked car claims more that a notional amount?

[Katy]

Katy

December 7, 2017 at 10:23 am #361

Depending on where you live, if it’s town/city (at a guess with not much garden) dont leave them unsupervised in a run, they are likely to get stolen.

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Katy

November 30, 2017 at 11:10 am #344

The good thing is, due to intervention from govt, smoking has reduced by 2 million since the ban. In 2008 smoking cost the NHS £5B. 10 years on, the health economy benefits will take more time to quantify but this is an interesting read…http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40444460

Whilst in 2016 obesity cost the NHS £16B. If obesity is a result of high processed foods full of sugar and salt then, if there were such a campaign to regulate these “foods” then I’m behind it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Katy.

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November 30, 2017 at 11:02 am #334

It doesn’t surprise me.

I remember looking at younger daughter’s primary school photo for year 6 and realising that and about half the class were severely overweight, and and fair few would be classed obese.

This is in a reasonably affluent middle class area – with countryside all around. You couldn’t blame lack of opportunity or sports facilities round here either.

I am guessing that too many kids just do not move enough. If they are obese then, what hope for the future. It is scary.

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Katy

November 23, 2017 at 1:25 pm #280

Throwing money at the NHS does not make us healthier. My GP told me gleefully that when GPs got that big pay rise a few years back, he cut his working hours and started a classic car restoration business. Colleagues chose to cut their hours. So we gave them more money and we got a reduced service.

Today my wife interviewed 5 candidates for 2 Band 6 nurse positions. She rejected 4 and appointed 1 but is not sure she is really up to it. Ie she had the funding she needs, but the competent people do not exist. In previous rounds of interviews, she has failed to appoint at all as none of the applicants were up to the standard. In the meantime, she has had to put her uniform back on to fill in for staff off sick; some genuinely, some avoiding suspension and strike off for incompetence.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 2:25 pm #263

It might be worth getting someone from the fire service out with their detector – they can tell you what your CO levels are right away. Friends of mine moved into a house and the alarms went off in the night. Fire service found high levels of CO, coming from the unused chimneys. It can build up even when things aren’t being used much.

Otherwise I’d bite the bullet, get a decent electrician in, and rewire your smoke alarms.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 2:13 pm #243

She sounds insufferable and insensitive tbh.

For someone like this I think you are going to have to be specific about future arrangements ie if she asks to come for a week say you can only spare a couple of days as you have too much on.

If you don’t want her in the house because she is critical suggest that she would be more comfortable in the local B and B.

I do sympathise about her sudden focus on money as a good friend of mine has had a promotion with a big salary and doesn’t shut up about it. She doesn’t actually earn more than me but I don’t feel the need to brag / share information about money as I don’t want that the basis of friendship .I just say I value other things and so could you is your horses / dogs / family / hobbies .

She actually sounds rather sad tbh and you’ll probably find she envies you .

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 2:10 pm #240

Thanks guys I’ll give it a try!

I’m going to see what I’m like over the weekend and if I’m not better I’m going to request an appointment with a doctor on Monday.

I asked one of the ENT surgeons at work about it yesterday and he said from what I’m describing it sounds like a inner ear infection and a course of antibiotics should sort me out alongside some anti sickness meds however when I told the nurse practitioner this all she said was well why didn’t he give you some antibiotics then went on to say she couldn’t see any sign of an infection ?

I’m booked in for an eye test on Thursday next week aswell just to try and rule everything out.

I’m normally such a fit and well person… even riding my horse is making me wobbly ?

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 2:03 pm #226

My friend learnt at 57 after her OH died. Believe me, if she can do it anyone can!

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 2:02 pm #224

I learnt at 25. Took me about a year. Didn’t really want to learn but due to living in countryside didn’t really have a choice if I wanted to get anywhere.
It gives you so much independence. Find a instructor that you get on with and you will be fine. Good luck!

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:56 pm #216

I think the modern pressure and expectation to be fulfilled and happy at all times is a hard one to live up to for most of us. Getting pleasure from the small things imho is a grat way to help you. A quiet cup of tea, a peaceful walk. You’ll get your mojo back.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:49 pm #206

I have incredibly vivid, but quite dull dreams. Last night, I dreamt I was trying to board an Air New Zealand flight from Calgary to Prague, but my boarding pass on my phone would only show my air bnb booking for Prague, and not my seat number, so they wouldn’t let me on. Then they would let me on, and would upgrade me for my troubles, but I had to do some cabin crew duties to ‘earn it’. I decided that was fair and got on the plane.

I have no idea why I was dreaming about that, but that is a typical level of detail I can recall the next day. I’m often very sensible in my dreams, even when I’m aware that I’m dreaming – I was checking my travel insurance documents, for example. Rock n roll life, me!

As far as I’m aware, nothing makes these dreams better or worse for me, unless I’m particularly stressed, in which case I have the same dream about getting up for work. I literally dream about getting up, having a coffee and a shower and getting dressed etc. When this happens, I frequently wake up at 3am surprised I’m not dressed

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:38 pm #189

What a very sad situation. My Mother was absolutely vile to my Dad and it is a horrible thing to witness.

Will he be staying with you for Christmas? This sounds like the ideal opportunity to put things in motion without nagging or making him feel pressured. I would do all you can to prevent him returning there after Christmas.. even if you have to go and collect all his possessions for him.

It never fails to amaze me how nasty people can be to each other.. this post has made me very sad.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:36 pm #185

Could you visit him? It might remind him how much he enjoys your company. You could then mention it to him again in a non nagging way and give him something to think about. What’s he doing for Christmas?

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:32 pm #177

It’s the multi currency thing that’s hard. Especially when the contract is on one currency but invoicing can be in several.

I’d look at LinkedIN for folks with that experience

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:29 pm #172

I haven’t- although I am self employed!
One of the best companies I ever worked for included 3 duvet days in the perks they offered. If you didn’t fancy going into work one day, you could just call the office and say you were taking one of your duvet days. We were expected to be sensible about it – not taking them when we were on deadline, or understaffed, and no-one took the mickey.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 1:14 pm #152

Somebody was telling me today that they were following a mutual acquaintance down the road on Saturday afternoon, and she was driving all over the place. They thought it was a little early in the day for her to have been drinking. I would almost definitely put it down to her reliance on solpadeine.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 12:59 pm #128

Any GP worth their salt will recognise and understand that you aren’t well enough to be at work at the moment, particularly if you are able to express how you are feeling as succinctly as you have on this post. Try to be really kind to yourself and get those around you to give you lots of tlc too. Maybe try to find a guided ‘relaxation’ app to take time to practice regulating your breathing and relaxing your whole body (which I assume is feeling quite tense at the moment).
I hope you start to feel better soon and once you are improving, it may be time to look for another job because where you are working currently seems awful and is clearly bad for your health. All the best.

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Katy

October 6, 2017 at 12:49 pm #117

Just change your setting so all others friends than her can see your posts. Everyone except…….

I did that to a similar person.