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Reduced to £20 for quick sale. 

Used but in good working order. Can deliver. 

This is clearly far from a unique issue. Somebody posted this on Facebook and it is so similar to posts here I asked him if he was with Tessa Jowell - he said "no, Lewisham". 

"This morning on the microsecond of 8am I tried to get through to my GP on the phone...it went straight through to Hold. Tried again. Same thing. Tried a third time...Same thing. OK, I thought, I will hold. 32 minutes later, I gave up. The voice said "Did you know you can now book appointments online?" NO YOU CAN'T...I have the Patient Access App & for the past 2 years it has said "This practice is unable to book appointments online." Anyhooooo...on way back from shops I popped into the actual surgery to see if I could book an appointment in advance...that was my second mistake...Receptionist said "No. You will have to ring up on a Monday morning to see if we have any for that week" "Oh, and what time should I ring?" "It's best to ring at 8am" "But i just spent 32 minutes this morning on hold and couldn't even get through" "Yeah, sorry about that, we are short-staffed at the moment...but did you kn ow you can now book appointments in advance online?" "No, you can't" "Well, there are sometimes some appointments available online" "Nope, no there aren't...looked every day for 2 years and not a scintilla of an appointment..." "Well, you could always ring up at 8am" "You do know the whole system is completely falling to pieces?" Receptionist gives rueful look. In case I lost it and set fire to the whole fecking GP Practice there and then, I left. I will try again tomorrow morning at 8am. And see if Dr Godot will see me...We are well and truly f****d, peoples."

Presumably more than selling overpriced dusters. 

4 hours ago, Sue said:

There are several threads on here about door to door sellers with similar false stories, but I don't know what the thread headings were or how to find them.

Someone else may have a better memory!

No idea who to contact, possibly the police non urgent number, can't remember what it is, sorry.

Can't imagine the police can do much about suspected casing of houses - sadly they don't seem able to do much even when thefts have been caught on camera. But no harm reporting - they supposedly use this data to direct future resources.

On 15/04/2024 at 19:58, Froglander said:

Less than ten years ago, one could just ring the surgery on the day in the morning to hopefully get an appointment for that day or the following day.  It was also possible to book into the future for appts with Graham,  the osteopath or with Dr. Johnson who did the dry needling acupuncture.  Same with nurse appts.  It all changed during Covid, the surgery moved into the new premises and morphed into Tessa Jowell and never returned to how it was.

About 25 years ago if you felt poorly you just went and you'd be seen. You might have to wait but no  appointment needed, you'd be seen while you were there. As they say, different times, 

Thanks ive dm'd you! 

Does anyone have an old school dictaphone that still works? One that plays microcassettes - remember them?  Plenty on ebay for around £10 but i need one quickly. 

I've often used Melbourne tyres but I'm so old that before then I used to get my tyres from the place that's now Bora grocers on the corner near Franklins. 

We needed one for a weekend away so got this from someone else here. Don't need it any more so happy to give away to someone else.

two doors with a plastic bottom tray for collection for free. Dimensions: 90cm long, 60cm wide, 68cm high. 

1 hour ago, alice said:

The bonkers thing about TJ is it the GPs if you get referred via 111 have no contact with the GPs you get if it sent from your GP practice. Right down to your records. 

Don't seldoc/111 refer you to kings A&E? I had an infected finger a couple of years ago and was pretty sure all i needed was a course of antibiotics, but 111 still referred me to King's where I had to wait hours to get them. Has the system changed? 

Without wishing to make light of this topic, all of this talk about kids on bikes outside stations queuing up for rich pickings makes me think of this clip.

18 minutes ago, Rockets said:

Very much different crimes as well - you could have hundreds more bobbies on the beat and you still would not stop kids riding up behind people and snatching phones. The problem is victims of robbery now carry an expensive device with a high resale value on their person and often walk down the road using it and not paying attention to their surroundings (the lady I shouted at on Townley some months ago to warn her she was about to be robbed was utterly oblivious to the fact that someone was circling her like a shark as she pushed her pram with her phone to her ear) - the risk/reward of that robbery is weighted way towards reward for the criminal. Compare that to street robberies in a time before phones where someone would have to confront someone for something on their person - there is a much higher risk that that person may not have anything of value on them or might wallop/apprehend you.

 

Phone snatching is a very high success/high reward/low risk rate crime and that is why it is so prevalent.

I think the frustration is also due to what was touched on in a post above - when a valuable phone is stolen we can see on a map exactly where it is and the police still do nothing about it. Never mind apprehending the culprit they don't even help you retrieve it. 

30 minutes ago, Penguin68 said:

Met numbers are currently the highest they have been, very slightly more than the previous peak in 2010 at the end of the Brown Government. You are right that they fell and have taken time to rise again, but they have now reached their previous 21st Century peak. Despite this rise I see (anecdotally) far fewer 'on the streets' now - and they seem very reluctant to attend reported crime which doesn't involve personal injury (and not always then!). They are of course much occupied in 'policing' public protest and marches.

I can only speak anecdotally but there certainly don't seem to be as many police around, either in cars or on foot. Around 25 years ago I was pulled over twice in the same month (I was innocent) and was even stopped by a bobby on the beat for cycling on the pavement. Can't remember the last time i saw a bobby on the beat.

Class tonight at 6.15pm - everyone welcome - pay what you want – no equipment needed - details on poster in link above or email [email protected]

12 hours ago, trinidad said:

It is always the motorist, which is the cash cow. From road tax, road charges, parking charges, penalty charges. I know the council is struggling, so a 10 - 15 pound increase, fine, but £100.00???? just like the previous person mentioned - the brown bins. In the introduction year, the brown bin cost only £25.00. The coast year it cost £30.00. The year after that, it went up to £40.00. The year after that, it went up to a whooping £80.00, god knows what it is now??? result  - everyone has no brown bins, and put there garden waste in the household waste which costs the council more to get rid of!!

 

We had the opportunity to punish the labor administrator last time, but we did not. 

Charges seem to be ramping up everywhere. I had a look at my Thames Water bill history back to 2018 recently. It used to go up £20 - £30 a year - in 2022 it up £50 and in 2023 it went up £80. I know we've had inflation but it still feels like they are taking the piss. i imagine even when inflation comes down it will still be going up by just as much or even more.

I previously used Netquest, but give them a ring as they aren't always open. 0207 183 5539
[email protected].

I also cracked a screen during lockdown and actually replaced it myself following an online fixit clip - the difficult bit was sourcing the right replacement screen – if it's a macbook let me know the type, I ended up with lots of spares and if I've got the right one I could do it.

Class tonight at 6.15pm - everyone welcome - no equipment needed - details on poster in link above or email [email protected]

2 hours ago, Froglander said:

I received similar. I called them. They said it was computer generated.   I had had a normal blood pressure reading two weeks ago at a hospital. I told them this. They said they needed to know the exact reading.  I think there must be ££ related to this.

yes, although if they get lots of readings that require further investigation how on earth are they going to cope if they are so snowed under already. Maybe they will nudge people in the direction of private treatment and some will take up the offer - I've noticed when using health apps recently - possibly evergreen but I can't be sure – there seem to be private options popping up for routine health checks which I'd never noticed before.

My partner and I both received unsolicited texts from Tessa Jowell recently asking us to go to a local chemist to have a blood pressure test and then submit the results. Anybody else had this? What was that all about? Weirdly we live at the same address but were told to go to different pharmacies in opposite directions!

Class tonight - everyone welcome - pay what you can - details on poster in link above. 

17 minutes ago, SpringTime said:

Try down Camberwell Church Street. There's some good Chinese to be had.

If you are thinking of silk road it looked like it had gone last time I was going past, but I've just checked and it reopened this week. https://www.timeout.com/london/news/cult-south-london-restaurant-silk-road-has-finally-reopened-022224

15 hours ago, MCVZ said:

It was a blue Vauxhall estate.  

Apart from what happened with your car this picture of it on wrong side of the road suggests it's surely a slam dunk dangerous driving offence?

11 hours ago, Nigello said:

It’s a long time ago, agreed, but pets in the last 1/4 of the 20C didn’t get the same kind of healthcare they seem to today… Is it a bit of a swizz? Nobody wants a poorly pooch, etc. but the vet care plans, treatments and consultations seem to me to be of a cost that suggests that. 

My parents had a dog in the 1960s and I can't remember us ever taking it to the vet. It probably wasn't even vaccinated for anything. all I can remember is it once had fleas. I do think life expectancy for dogs has increased in recent years which may be down to increased healthcare.

We now have a dog of our own for the first time and even the cost of standard vaccinations feels astronomical. We thought we were done after a year but last time we went to the vet we were told he needed more jabs. We've timed it badly with our first dog as by the time it is "middle aged" and more prone to illness we will be retired - I've no idea ho we will be able to afford it then.