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Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.7 this a.m.
The eighth birthday of The Ninky Nonks (Chaos and Mayhem) came and went with all the fanfare, fun and a splendid cake made by their mother.
A sofa has been chosen. Not a settee. This is quite the sofa and will be delivered in about eight weeks. We are not in any advertised mock urgency: “just in time for Christmas” - why would you do that? Unless you chose a black one and could then ask the sales team if it could be delivered “just in time for grandads wake”? No. Stop it.
Girl In The Bubble back at school today after her rash episode. She will be pleased to go as she does like school.
Podiatrist today for a bit of foot carving - I do admire those who keep the arts and crafts movement alive.
Art bit - “there’s a boat out there”.
Hope today that you can escape the crush of circumstances. I try and chuck mine away, they are only my assumptions - best carried out in a sitting position and with koffy.

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.7 this a.m.
The eighth birthday of The Ninky Nonks (Chaos and Mayhem) came and went with all the fanfare, fun and a splendid cake made by their mother.
A sofa has been chosen. Not a settee. This is quite the sofa and will be delivered in about eight weeks. We are not in any advertised mock urgency: “just in time for Christmas” - why would you do that? Unless you chose a black one and could then ask the sales team if it could be delivered “just in time for grandads wake”? No. Stop it.
Girl In The Bubble back at school today after her rash episode. She will be pleased to go as she does like school.
Podiatrist today for a bit of foot carving - I do admire those who keep the arts and crafts movement alive.
Art bit - “there’s a boat out there”.
Hope today that you can escape the crush of circumstances. I try and chuck mine away, they are only my assumptions - best carried out in a sitting position and with koffy.

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There's two boats out there... @dunelm

5.5 this morning.

Beautiful sunny morning. It actually didn't feel that cold - even though the temperature is quite low at the moment.

Just read that there has been a crash on the A47 so it looks like we will need to take another route to classes in Norwich. Don't feel very motivated to answer emails so will carry on catching up with posts - which is much more enjoyable.

Fbg 6.5
I had a really stressful day yesterday. I had to go and collect my owing medicines. The ones they didn't have when I went to collect my prescription.last week... I had to wait over two hours last week for them to make up this meds prescription. Then again when I went in yesterday, I had to wait nearly an hour in the pharmacy and there were no seats, while they made the owing meds prescription up. By the time I got home, I was more than absolutely shattered...my legs wouldn't work well. No, they don't deliver meds. Yes I have tried changing pharmacy, but despite what I did, the medicines kept being sent to the original pharmacy.

I had a rest but I really needed a whole day of rest before I sent my letter to PACT, at St Paul's, to ask for another optician for cataract post-op check up, because the optician they chose, would not get back to me and give me an appointment once I stated what appointment I needed from them. I tried for over a week. So much time wasted. It was too far to drive just to call-in.

PACT was a nightmare this time. It said on the site that could you find other methods of getting your messages through because we are inundated.

I am still stressed with the whole thing of the hospital cancelling the appointment days and times of operation, again and again.

So I tried to send the letter via the list of boxes they had for you to send the message, you had to fill in a whole load of little separate boxes of your details first. Then I put in the message. But then the first load of boxes all the details got wiped out when I pressed send, and I had to put them again. Then Capita's stupid bicycle boxes. Then it let me fill in the detail boxes again get the letter message in the message box stayed, but they asked me to fill in the detail boxes again. The merry go round went on and on. I spent two, maybe three hours trying to do this. Each time I send the personal details went out/off and it said you've got to fill these in when I had just filled these in. The whole thing was set up for failure so that you could not send your message.

I was literally at my wits end at this point. I felt like saying sod the bloody cataract post op check up.

Finally, on another page somewhere else, I found an email address for PACT at St Paul's, and I sent my letter that way. But by this time I was stressed to the max. And I had a meltdown....

I got confirmation PACT had received my email so now I have to wait....

Right... absolutely no computer time or computer work today I hate computer computers and technology. They can go for a long walk on a short pier and I hope the water fries all their circuits when they fall in it.

I have been having other problems with technology recently, and ChatGPT was helping me try to solve it. And it was saying go to advanced settings and alter these settings and that would sort it out.

Well, I reported back to ChatGPT, that it did not sort it. I explained what it was happening now. That's not supposed to happen says ChatGPT. Let's go through it again. I had done it right the first time.

I am very sorry said ChatGPT, I have failed. How about we leave it in the lap of the software gods and I'll try again in a weeks time....

This was Chat GPT's actual answer to me.

There is no hope for any of us....

Have your best kind of day....

Creative is a sketch of a woman pushing a pram, drawn on my phone with my finger....

Oh Gennepher, what a time you have with all your techie problems, plus medical service problems. Technology was supposed to have made things easier for everyone, but relying on it totally has had so many ramifications, and then, they have squeezed humans out of the systems so we have machines serving machines and humans take the hindmost.

How did we become so reliant of machines? Machines break down. Machines don't have any common sense. Actually, now that I come to think of it, many people seem to have lost their common sense these days. Is it something in the air? Or in the food? Or is it reliance on technology itself that has done it? I have also been wondering if it is a combination of food, environment and technology that has cause the rise in frustration, violence and rage that we see so often. Our generation has allowed something to happen while we were looking the other way that has left us with little sense of society or humanity. To an extent I am protected from it all on my little island, but not totally because, while not as awful as yours, our health service is much worse than it used to be. Common humanity has gone by the board here as well,to a great extent.

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.5
I had a really stressful day yesterday. I had to go and collect my owing medicines. The ones they didn't have when I went to collect my prescription.last week... I had to wait over two hours last week for them to make up this meds prescription. Then again when I went in yesterday, I had to wait nearly an hour in the pharmacy and there were no seats, while they made the owing meds prescription up. By the time I got home, I was more than absolutely shattered...my legs wouldn't work well. No, they don't deliver meds. Yes I have tried changing pharmacy, but despite what I did, the medicines kept being sent to the original pharmacy.

I had a rest but I really needed a whole day of rest before I sent my letter to PACT, at St Paul's, to ask for another optician for cataract post-op check up, because the optician they chose, would not get back to me and give me an appointment once I stated what appointment I needed from them. I tried for over a week. So much time wasted. It was too far to drive just to call-in.

PACT was a nightmare this time. It said on the site that could you find other methods of getting your messages through because we are inundated.

I am still stressed with the whole thing of the hospital cancelling the appointment days and times of operation, again and again.

So I tried to send the letter via the list of boxes they had for you to send the message, you had to fill in a whole load of little separate boxes of your details first. Then I put in the message. But then the first load of boxes all the details got wiped out when I pressed send, and I had to put them again. Then Capita's stupid bicycle boxes. Then it let me fill in the detail boxes again get the letter message in the message box stayed, but they asked me to fill in the detail boxes again. The merry go round went on and on. I spent two, maybe three hours trying to do this. Each time I send the personal details went out/off and it said you've got to fill these in when I had just filled these in. The whole thing was set up for failure so that you could not send your message.

I was literally at my wits end at this point. I felt like saying sod the bloody cataract post op check up.

Finally, on another page somewhere else, I found an email address for PACT at St Paul's, and I sent my letter that way. But by this time I was stressed to the max. And I had a meltdown....

I got confirmation PACT had received my email so now I have to wait....

Right... absolutely no computer time or computer work today I hate computer computers and technology. They can go for a long walk on a short pier and I hope the water fries all their circuits when they fall in it.

I have been having other problems with technology recently, and ChatGPT was helping me try to solve it. And it was saying go to advanced settings and alter these settings and that would sort it out.

Well, I reported back to ChatGPT, that it did not sort it. I explained what it was happening now. That's not supposed to happen says ChatGPT. Let's go through it again. I had done it right the first time.

I am very sorry said ChatGPT, I have failed. How about we leave it in the lap of the software gods and I'll try again in a weeks time....

This was Chat GPT's actual answer to me.

There is no hope for any of us....

Have your best kind of day....

Creative is a sketch of a woman pushing a pram, drawn on my phone with my finger....

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I think that Chat GBT's answer was spot on.
There is no hope for any of us.... No wonder you were exhausted

Good happy spring Morening fellow posters and painters.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.7

Here in Tilehurst Towers the sun, our local fusion reactor is shining, the birds are chirping away. This combination is enough to make me, me’s and myself glad to be alive.

After a busy morning a nap is called for, and is about to be…..zzzzzzzzz

gennepher said:

There's two boats out there... @dunelm

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Yes. But that’s what I remember that the bloke said to me on Llandudno beach in about 1958

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.5
I had a really stressful day yesterday. I had to go and collect my owing medicines. The ones they didn't have when I went to collect my prescription.last week... I had to wait over two hours last week for them to make up this meds prescription. Then again when I went in yesterday, I had to wait nearly an hour in the pharmacy and there were no seats, while they made the owing meds prescription up. By the time I got home, I was more than absolutely shattered...my legs wouldn't work well. No, they don't deliver meds. Yes I have tried changing pharmacy, but despite what I did, the medicines kept being sent to the original pharmacy.

I had a rest but I really needed a whole day of rest before I sent my letter to PACT, at St Paul's, to ask for another optician for cataract post-op check up, because the optician they chose, would not get back to me and give me an appointment once I stated what appointment I needed from them. I tried for over a week. So much time wasted. It was too far to drive just to call-in.

PACT was a nightmare this time. It said on the site that could you find other methods of getting your messages through because we are inundated.

I am still stressed with the whole thing of the hospital cancelling the appointment days and times of operation, again and again.

So I tried to send the letter via the list of boxes they had for you to send the message, you had to fill in a whole load of little separate boxes of your details first. Then I put in the message. But then the first load of boxes all the details got wiped out when I pressed send, and I had to put them again. Then Capita's stupid bicycle boxes. Then it let me fill in the detail boxes again get the letter message in the message box stayed, but they asked me to fill in the detail boxes again. The merry go round went on and on. I spent two, maybe three hours trying to do this. Each time I send the personal details went out/off and it said you've got to fill these in when I had just filled these in. The whole thing was set up for failure so that you could not send your message.

I was literally at my wits end at this point. I felt like saying sod the bloody cataract post op check up.

Finally, on another page somewhere else, I found an email address for PACT at St Paul's, and I sent my letter that way. But by this time I was stressed to the max. And I had a meltdown....

I got confirmation PACT had received my email so now I have to wait....

Right... absolutely no computer time or computer work today I hate computer computers and technology. They can go for a long walk on a short pier and I hope the water fries all their circuits when they fall in it.

I have been having other problems with technology recently, and ChatGPT was helping me try to solve it. And it was saying go to advanced settings and alter these settings and that would sort it out.

Well, I reported back to ChatGPT, that it did not sort it. I explained what it was happening now. That's not supposed to happen says ChatGPT. Let's go through it again. I had done it right the first time.

I am very sorry said ChatGPT, I have failed. How about we leave it in the lap of the software gods and I'll try again in a weeks time....

This was Chat GPT's actual answer to me.

There is no hope for any of us....

Have your best kind of day....

Creative is a sketch of a woman pushing a pram, drawn on my phone with my finger....

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A definite win for perseverance but what an awful spin on the roundabout that the NHS has created. I don’t think that they want anyone communicating with them.
We did last year individually change our nominated pharmacy on the NHS app and it did work for us on that occasion.
Calamitous - is that a word?

Quick visit to update.
5.4 wow! 6.2 yesterday.
Nightmare time for us as Mrs L has been really all over the place.
Something is not right.
Glad specialist is coming tomorrow.
Gotta go.
I keep asking for help from any of the deities, but as always no one answers.
However the button was pressed twice. Didn't help much!
Man came yesterday to see what he can do in house.
The new meds are helping my but not in the way I hoped.
My best wishes.

Annb said:

Oh Gennepher, what a time you have with all your techie problems, plus medical service problems. Technology was supposed to have made things easier for everyone, but relying on it totally has had so many ramifications, and then, they have squeezed humans out of the systems so we have machines serving machines and humans take the hindmost.

How did we become so reliant of machines? Machines break down. Machines don't have any common sense. Actually, now that I come to think of it, many people seem to have lost their common sense these days. Is it something in the air? Or in the food? Or is it reliance on technology itself that has done it? I have also been wondering if it is a combination of food, environment and technology that has cause the rise in frustration, violence and rage that we see so often. Our generation has allowed something to happen while we were looking the other way that has left us with little sense of society or humanity. To an extent I am protected from it all on my little island, but not totally because, while not as awful as yours, our health service is much worse than it used to be. Common humanity has gone by the board here as well,to a great extent.

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A lot of this has led to powerlessness on our part. We have no control. We cannot access things anymore. And that's what leads to frustration and rage.

I don't know what the answer is anymore. I think it's just going to get out of control even more.

I have largely spent today winding down from yesterday when I really wanted to do some things @Annb

I do have a copy of the serenity prayer on my walls, but it does not quite apply, especially in my case, in this day of technology and computers and stuff, because the first statement says something on the line of grant us the serenity not to worry about the things that we are unable to change. But my case that section is completely overwhelming compared to what is in my life in the rest of the prayer, if you get what I mean.

Currently, I am trying to write a new serenity prayer that fits in with the amount of no control in many parts of my/our lives... I used to find peace in this serenity prayer, but I don't now...

dunelm said:

A definite win for perseverance but what an awful spin on the roundabout that the NHS has created. I don’t think that they want anyone communicating with them.
We did last year individually change our nominated pharmacy on the NHS app and it did work for us on that occasion.
Calamitous - is that a word?

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I believe calamitous is a word @dunelm

I don't think anyone wants communication anymore. If there is no communication, then whatever firm it is, don't have to deal with it....

I have tried several times on the NHS app to change the nominated pharmacy. But each time it gets sent to the original pharmacy. The NHS app in Wales I think it's slightly different to the one in England but to be able to log into the NHS app in Wales I have to go through the NHS app in England, login there first, prove who I am each time, and then it will allow me to try, and I mean try to log into the NHS Wales App. Half the time I cannot get into it.

I even went to a pharmacy of my choice and explained my situation and the assistant they said she would go and sort it out and get my prescription delivered to their pharmacy. But she didn't succeed. ...

I give up....

gennepher said:

I believe calamitous is a word @dunelm

I don't think anyone wants communication anymore. If there is no communication, then whatever firm it is, don't have to deal with it....

I have tried several times on the NHS app to change the nominated pharmacy. But each time it gets sent to the original pharmacy. The NHS app in Wales I think it's slightly different to the one in England but to be able to log into the NHS app in Wales I have to go through the NHS app in England, login there first, prove who I am each time, and then it will allow me to try, and I mean try to log into the NHS Wales App. Half the time I cannot get into it.

I even went to a pharmacy of my choice and explained my situation and the assistant they said she would go and sort it out and get my prescription delivered to their pharmacy. But she didn't succeed. ...

I give up....

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I have bought a refurbished iPhone to take over to France for my mother and have just spent two hours trying to ensure it works OK.
I don’t like iPhones.
I don’t own an iPhone.
It is now switched off and in a drawer.
I wonder if our five year old granddaughter will have better luck tomorrow .
Must remember to get some more Euro dosh.

Krystyna23040 said:

I think that Chat GBT's answer was spot on.
There is no hope for any of us.... No wonder you were exhausted

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Sorry you had such a rotten day I can see your supply of spoons would have been severely depleted as were mine in fact I woke up this morning with a spoons deficit and have not been able to do much today.
My fbg was ok at five point eight but I had no energy.
I did have an appointment booked this afternoon at Kings Mill but had been told when I had my lung function test last week that it was a phone appointment but have not received a call so I think that got messed up and will have to try and sort it out tomorrow. I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon for an ultrasound then a dressing appointment on Thursday it just feels too much at times.

Luckily

dunelm said:

I have bought a refurbished iPhone to take over to France for my mother and have just spent two hours trying to ensure it works OK.
I don’t like iPhones.
I don’t own an iPhone.
It is now switched off and in a drawer.
I wonder if our five year old granddaughter will have better luck tomorrow .
Must remember to get some more Euro dosh.

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I wouldn't be surprised if five year old granddaughter will have better luck tomorrow. It is quite scary just how good they are with technology

Good morning everyone on what looks to be another sun shiny day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.8 this a.m.
Walked into town yesterday for podiatrist to tickle my feet with a scalpel and make them all shiny.
Mum’s iPhone is out of the drawer. Mrs Miggins turned it on - fiddled about with it for a few minutes and declared it to be fine. Mrs Miggins has an iPhone - those curs-ed things.
Today, Mrs Miggins and her twin sister are walking the final 4 mile leg of our planned coastal walk for this years family weekend - we have had some land slippage over winter so they want to check the path. They will get a bus from town to the start points. I will walk into town with them and collect prescriptions then walk down through the woods later and meet up with them at The Ship Inn for lunch.
Art bit - a colour wash.
Hope your day gives you time for yourself. I will make koffy and enjoy the morning sun.

5.2 this morning.

Relaxing in my recliner chair in the conservatory with a coffee. Bonnie is fast asleep in her crate.

She always wants to go back to her crate after her breakfast and that is perfect for me because I can relax with my breakfast and coffee.

It is my special time of the day to relax as I work every weekday evening. So we chose the perfect puppy.
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who remember listen with mother.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.0

Here in Tilehurst Towers the sky is clear of white fluffy things, but grey coloured pigeons and red kites are attempting to block out the sun. Unsuccessfully thankfully.
If it wasn’t for solar keratosis I would be out in the garden wearing my mankind.

Stay safe all.

Fbg 6.7

My day is not going quite as planned and neither is it as stressfree as I had planned.

This morning, I've got a phone call. I can't take phone calls ecause of being deaf but then moments later was my App telling me I had a voicemail.
The voicemail only lasted a couple of seconds, but it was enough to know that it came from Liverpool eye hospital, and they obviously made the mistake of ringing me with a voice call to respond to my request that the optician did not get back in touch with me.

A shortwhile later, I get an email from the eye hospital, from the cataract department. They said they were very sorry I couldn't get hold of the opticians that was supposed to do my postop check. And they offered me a new one, but it was in the centre of Liverpool.. I had asked for some different ones, but presumably they didn't do the postop check. On the letter it said that if I accepted this optician then they'd already been in contact and the optician had said they would text me an appointment...
it turns out that the opticians in Liverpool, at least, maybe the whole of England are give prior warning to the particular opticians to expect you for the cataract postop check up.. so did why did not the original opticians get back to me?
I decided to say yes, even though there was going to be a few parking problems, but I didn't know whether the disabled spaces were going to be a problem...I hoped not...

So the arrangements are going ahead for that.

Then I looked at available parking spaces for me nearest the opticians. The centre of Liverpool has changed since the beginning of Covid. And I don't find it disabled friendly, for parking from what I can see on the map and reading on the Liverpool sites there is now an inner control zone where there are tight restrictions and then a control zone...

I found it easier parking in London than trying to work out this in Liverpool....

So nothing is as I remember it. Traffic is going a different way round to get to certain parking places and so on. I spent the next couple of hours trying to work out where it would be a safe place to park if there was a space. But different sites said different things even the Liverpool site said different things. And then I was trying to work out alternatives. Finally, I have wasted a couple of hours on this and I am in sod it mode and I said I'll just go and park there.
But then I remember different blue badge spaces had limits like three hours or four hours depending where they were located. I was told I was going to be at the optician up to a couple of hours for the postop check. So that could take me pretty near the four hour limit and I don't want a fine for that...

So I looked at Liverpool one parking, but there is a lot of walking from there to the actual shop, although it won't look like it on a map. And I'm terrified of multistorey car parks anyway, because I cannot hear any spoken instructions from machines or pay machines et cetera... and I don't have a clue what to do at that point unless someone is there that I can ask for help. To park there needs a second mortgage.... even for disabled people...

Plan is to just to get to Liverpool on the day, early. And if I can find no parking in city centre near the shop, I will find somewhere else and get a taxi in.

I'll be glad when all this is over and sorted out...

Wildlife trail cam video...
Badgers Willow & Thor - Willow tries to jump on the swing but fails, and falls off.
Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHW7TPjIn_G/?igsh=MXNqZm9yeGV5aDNsZg==


Same video on TikTok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNddmsJe7/

Creative...it's a bright sunny day, and these are last years teasels gone to seed...

Have a good day