What made you UNHAPPY today!

[Alfa2Evora]

2 hours ago, NAC63 said:

Wow you don't have much luck do you. 

Put it this way, I don't bother buying lottery tickets.

2 hours ago, jep said:

Sorry to hear this but don't let it spoil your enjoyment of the brilliant Evora.

Driving it is far more important than looking at it. Or for others to look at it. 

Justin

 

Biggest worry now is that its MOT test is due in 9 weeks time and I doubt it would pass with the headlight alignment as it sits just now,  .

[jep]

63 days of heaven to enjoy. 😀

[Sparky]

Feckin eye.  The 'eventful' cataract surgery of several months ago was finally followed up today.  The eye can't focus at any length (I swear the lens is incorrect), and my new expensive varifocals became junk within a few weeks after assurances that the eye was 'quiet' after the infection.  They're now relying on corneal scarring as the issue and refusing to do anything about it other that look again in 6 months and check whether I want a transplant.  Screw that!  Meanwhile I'm advised to pay for a new prescription and resultant set of glasses, as "it might help a bit".

Maybe time to relinquish the NHS and pop to Moorfields...

[exeterjeep]

23 minutes ago, Sparky said:

Maybe time to relinquish the NHS and pop to Moorfields..

My father in law was under the care of Moorfields, a good experience - particularly after his experiences with the NHS in Watford.

[Bling]

Sorry to hear that @Sparky. My father has been under Moorfields for many years as he has always had eye problems. A few cataract surgeries, detached retinas and other procedures were had over the years. I never heard him complain.

[Bazza 907]

Private at Moorfields. Top guys there say they would only let one man touch their own eyes. He's Prof Gartry - good chap too.. 

[march]

Well it's been a new low for our GP practice (who before Covid they were brilliant). Carina had very dangerously high blood pressure (from home readings and reference to NHS website) and tried to book an appointment with the GP - the result was a text to a phone we don't have (the practice was told not to use the phone number as it was no longer valid) telling her to amend a dosage - No contact, No looking into underlying reasons, no nothing.

F/*£k doctors pay rises if they are going to behave like this - we don't live at the doctors, they are generally lucky to see us one year to the next so we are hardly a burden on their services. Currently looking at private options.

[Bibs]

GP's work for private businesses funded by the NHS and their other activities. A close friend recently took a job as a GP Practice Manager and while the doctors work incredibly hard (their surgery is same day appointments with a named doctor) their pay is massive, top 1% massive. I think any payrises are for doctors within the NHS who earn a fraction of what GP's do. 

https://www.healthjobs.co.uk/blog/the-gp-salary--and--pay-guide/

Fingers crossed Carina gets better soon. If not, I'd be popping her along to either a walk-in or A&E if it's that high. 

[C8RKH]

The public don't know the half of it re GPs, how they are funded, the fact they are often business "Partners" in their own businesses so get salaries, benefits and dividends from profits etc. That's why they need to employ Practice Managers to run their businesses.

The majority of the public still foolishly belief that Gps are NHS employees. By and large they are not.

[march]

Big thunderstorm, Big thunderclap, Big lightening, Big Bang from TV followed by small mushroom cloud above said TV, no more TV and knackered broadband router.

Tonight is going to be hell - No TV! 😱

Upside is I am feeling a bit smug as I made sure we had a spare router for just such occurrences and we are now googling for new TV. Any suggestions for a good budget TV?

 

[pete]

LG. 

[Colin P]

2 hours ago, march said:

Big thunderstorm, Big thunderclap, Big lightening, Big Bang from TV followed by small mushroom cloud above said TV, no more TV and knackered broadband router.

Tonight is going to be hell - No TV! 😱

Upside is I am feeling a bit smug as I made sure we had a spare router for just such occurrences and we are now googling for new TV. Any suggestions for a good budget TV?

 

Costco if you can, believe it or not. They will give a 5 year guarantee and outprice the electrical retailers. Another vote for LG being good value

[eclat22]

Costco👍and when it goes wrong, will deem it uneconomical to repair and give you your money back, crazy, 

[march]

Thanks for the comments - have just been lent a LG TV and it's awful (A real budget TV I suspect so probably an unfair comparison). Have plumped for a Samsung that is on sale (2021 model) that gets good reviews so will see how that goes - hope it's better than the LG. Comes with a 5 year warranty from John Lewis.

As an aside - just met a power company repair chap at the farm entrance and apparently our neighbours transformer was hit by lightening - literally just the other side of the lane from us. Also we are now the only house / farm on the lane that has broadband 😎.

Edited May 9, 2023 by march

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

We bought our first flat screen TV ahead of the 2010 World Cup. It was a 42” HD plasma Samsung and cost £499 from Currys. 13 years later it’s still doing brilliant service in our living room. Comfortably the best piece of technology I have ever bought. Despite many hours of use every day, it’s never gone wrong and I am yet to see a TV with a better picture. We also have the sound wired through even older CD player speakers for excellent stereo sound for films and football matches. Occasionally my wife suggests getting a new, bigger telly, but there really isn’t any point.

[Bibs]

I got my first plasma around 20 years ago. I won't say what I paid but I was a Director of a successful IT Recruitment firm at the time and it was a lot!! I had people knocking on the door to see the telly on the wall!! 

[oneshot]

I had a plasma in 2000. It was mounted on the wall and weighed a ton! It is still going strong - I donated it to a local cricket club for their clubhouse. 

[Escape]

I haven't owned a telly since I was at uni.

Can't say it has made my unhappy, I'm quite content watching the occasional film or series on the computer screen.

[Bibs]

My bank won't let me pay in a 500 euro note. If it was fake, I'd be pretty dumb to be putting it into my own account! No where else seems to accept them either. 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Steady on Rockefeller!

[Bibs]

It's only one

[Chillidoggy]

I heard that there are £50 notes in circulation. Never seen one, though.

[Bibs]

Sparky never opened his wallet in front of you then?!

[100th_Idiot]

2 hours ago, Bibs said:

It's only one

Cut it in half to make it easier for them to handle

[phil flash]

6 hours ago, Bibs said:

My bank won't let me pay in a 500 euro note. If it was fake, I'd be pretty dumb to be putting it into my own account! No where else seems to accept them either. 

In 2015, I had reason to shift a lot of funds from my UK Bank to my French (Credit Agricole) Bank account after I'd opened it with a nominal amount. I took a lot of 500 euro notes and found the French petrol stations don't take them either.  Paying them into my CA Bank, each one was inspected very carefully..  I was told that the best forgers usually go for copies of the 500€ and very few Europeans have ever seen them ..  very strange ..