WAMT....what annoyed me today!

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Marc said:
We accepted an offer on our house, and had an offer accepted on a bungalow. Fingers crossed for a smooth transaction.
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Our buyer appears to have gone AWOL! Our Estate Agent last heard from her on Wednesday morning regarding the ID checks. They haven't been able to contact her since. She's not answering any calls or replying to any messages.
 
Marc said:
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Our buyer appears to have gone AWOL! Our Estate Agent last heard from her on Wednesday morning regarding the ID checks. They haven't been able to contact her since. She's not answering any calls or replying to any messages.
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Sorry to hear that Marc, moving house is stressful enough without extra hassle. Hope there is some reasonable explanation and it get sorted out.

Dave
 
Marc said:
Thanks, Dave. Just hope we don't lose the Bungelow. They haven't found anywhere yet, so that takes a little of the pressure off.
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Sometimes, these house moving problems can turn into unexpected benefits.

The last house we sold, we accepted a much lower offer than the asking price. That buyer just fell through without warning. Such things happen. {shrug}. Then a new buyer appeared, offered the full price and just wanted possession as soon as possible. This was no problem for us as we already owned the other house and it was empty. The whole thing was settled in six weeks and we were a big chunk of cash better off!

So take heart, it could just turn out well without warning (y)
 
Suvv said:
Coming down the A12 yesterday there was a "Roadworks" sign.
My wife said "when do you ever see a man with a spade, it should show some big machine"
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A spade ? I thought it meant rain imminent and he was putting up a brolly....:)
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Sometimes, these house moving problems can turn into unexpected benefits.

The last house we sold, we accepted a much lower offer than the asking price. That buyer just fell through without warning. Such things happen. {shrug}. Then a new buyer appeared, offered the full price and just wanted possession as soon as possible. This was no problem for us as we already owned the other house and it was empty. The whole thing was settled in six weeks and we were a big chunk of cash better off!

So take heart, it could just turn out well without warning (y)
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Days after we cancelled the sale of our bungalow (we would have had to move into temporary accom ) my wife was diagnosed with renal cancer and had to be rushed in for an emergency kidney (+other bits) removal! He works in mysterious ways!
 
Marc said:
6-8 weeks for an appointment with the nurse to take bloods! Only a few years ago, it used to be a walk-in clinic. I've now got to go to the hospital, where parking is a complete nightmare!
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Has the clinic closed or something?

Fortunately, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here has pretty decent parking now if using the large multistorey, but anything outside can be a nightmare, with people parking on double yellows, in disabled bays without badges showing, between bollards etc. Presumably they don't want the small extra walk from the multistorey, but we are talking literally an extra 2 mins.

The worst thing I'm seeing now is people parking fully on this pavement here where it's narrow, meaning pedestrians can only just squeeze through but wheelchairs and prams have got no chance.

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Marc said:
No. they just changed it from walk-in to appointment only.
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Sorry, I thought you meant the appointment with the nurse was at the hospital.
 
gman said:
Sorry, I thought you meant the appointment with the nurse was at the hospital.
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Sorry, should've made it clear that the clinic was at the GP Surgery.

An update: My wife sent an email to the surgical team (who requested the bloods). This afternoon,, I got a test, telling me I have an appointment tomorrow morning!
 
Washed the car Sunday,

Came out at dinner and a bird had shat from the bonnet up the windscreen, all over the roof and roof rack.

It was huge, must have been a feckin Golden Eagle with the runs
 
Barney said:
Washed the car Sunday,

Came out at dinner and a bird had shat from the bonnet up the windscreen, all over the roof and roof rack.

It was huge, must have been a feckin Golden Eagle with the runs
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Is it a blue car?
The birds always seem to poop on my blue car! Just after I’ve washed it :mad:
 
Norkie said:
Is it a blue car?
The birds always seem to poop on my blue car! Just after I’ve washed it :mad:
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Blue/Grey

Weird, close up it looks pale blue metallic from across the road its grey
 
Marc said:
Sorry, should've made it clear that the clinic was at the GP Surgery.

An update: My wife sent an email to the surgical team (who requested the bloods). This afternoon,, I got a test, telling me I have an appointment tomorrow morning!
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I misread it, my fault. Looks like you got a result.
 
Barney said:
Washed the car Sunday,

Came out at dinner and a bird had shat from the bonnet up the windscreen, all over the roof and roof rack.

It was huge, must have been a feckin Golden Eagle with the runs
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Round our way the birds that are excremental gold medalists are the pigeons. At any time their deposits are difficult to deal with but in the autumn they can eat all manner of fruit and convert it into bluey/purple concrete.

Dave
 
Marc said:
6-8 weeks for an appointment with the nurse to take bloods! Only a few years ago, it used to be a walk-in clinic. I've now got to go to the hospital, where parking is a complete nightmare!
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We found out during the last year, that if we (living in Kent), try to book bloods via the phlebotomy service it takes about the same time as you. I found out by accident, after going to the surgery when it was quiet, first thing in the morning, that the nurse did mine immediately. We have just changed surgeries and my wife had her bloods done there two days after joining. Unfortunately, given what happened to me five years ago, I may harbour a very jaundiced opinion of the NHS generally, empty waiting rooms, yet you cannot get an appointment, being one glaring example.
 
About 20 minutes ago (it was still light) I happen to look out of the window to see a car drive by and out of the window came empty MacDonald's packaging along with the large 'paper' drinks cup and the straw plus the brown paper bag they had been put in by the server. I picked up seven separate items.:mad:
 
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JohnC6 said:
About 20 minutes ago (it was still light) I happen to look out of the window to see a car drive by and out of the window came empyou might get ty MacDonald's packaging along with the large 'paper' drinks cup and the straw plus the brown paper bag they had been put in at by the server. I picked up seven separate items.:mad:
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Complain to Customer Service Email: customerservices@mcdonalds.co.uk, you might get a free burger :(:mad:
 
Just come back from what should have been a nice, quiet drive in the country, ended up in a hailstorm/torrential rain for twenty minutes, where every other car had no lights on, really dangerous as the visibility was awful.
 
JohnC6 said:
About 20 minutes ago (it was still light) I happen to look out of the window to see a car drive by and out of the window came empty MacDonald's packaging along with the large 'paper' drinks cup and the straw plus the brown paper bag they had been put in at by the server. I picked up seven separate items.:mad:
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Well that's Deliveroo for you. You should have used Uber Eats.
 
andya700 said:
Just come back from what should have been a nice, quiet drive in the country, ended up in a hailstorm/torrential rain for twenty minutes, where every other car had no lights on, really dangerous as the visibility was awful.
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Can be a problem with so many new(ish) cars having automatic headlights - if it's still relatively bright, they'll stay on DRLs rather than proper headlights. Personally, I'd rather DRLs were dispensed with and all vehicles had their headlights on instead.
 
Nod said:
Can be a problem with so many new(ish) cars having automatic headlights - if it's still relatively bright, they'll stay on DRLs rather than proper headlights. Personally, I'd rather DRLs were dispensed with and all vehicles had their headlights on instead.
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Modern driving lights are quite bright, certainly enough to be seen in bad weather.
 
Not from the rear. Both Mrs Nod's and my cars' DRLs are relatively dim compared to their headlights - they both have small strips surrounding the main lights.
 
Nod said:
Can be a problem with so many new(ish) cars having automatic headlights - if it's still relatively bright, they'll stay on DRLs rather than proper headlights. Personally, I'd rather DRLs were dispensed with and all vehicles had their headlights on instead.
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Surely you can manually turn on the headlights.
 
Eucris said:
Surely you can manually turn on the headlights.
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Automatic headlights have been a thing for so long, I suspect most drivers never give them a thought. My car has 'matrix' headlights and automatically switches main and dipped beams.
 
I suppose AI in cars is going to be a bit of an upgrade - some intelligence is better than none . . . :coat:
 
The auto headlights on mine has three settings: early/medium/ late. The early setting will turn them on under less dim conditions and also turn them on sooner when conditions are dark, such as going through a short tunnel.

The light sensor is a combined light/rain sensor and it also uses the rain sensor to turn the headlights on automatically when it detects rain.

One issue I have with DRL's (especially bright ones) is I've seen quite a few people at night thinking that their headlights are on, whilst unaware that their car is pitch dark from the rear.
 
Eucris said:
Surely you can manually turn on the headlights.
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Of course you (and I) can. The problem for me is that the stalk that controls the lights is hidden behind the steering wheel and has around 6 or 7 detents, only one of which is "ON". Not a problem if I'm leaving home in bright but rainy conditions but is if I gat caught in a sudden heavy shower! I wish it was possible to set it to have headlights (and tail lights) on with the "ignition" but it isn't.
 
My 2014 Fiesta automatically turns the headlights on if the automatic wipers go to high speed.
 
Rang 4 local companies to buy turf for my garden over the last few days. Left messages and emails but not one of them have responded. I want to buy local, not get poor grass from B&Q! :headbang:
 
WAMT...

After a few months of our favoured route up onto Dartmoor being closed, the works that caused the closure appear to be finished. The annoyance is that there's now a new closure a couple of miles away from the first.
 
Well yesterday. I had someone rear-end the motorhome while traveling back to Calais through Rouen, not badly damaged just inconvenient. Contacted the insurance company and they asked if I could get a quote locally to have it fixed. No problem the local garage I use is pretty good. Sent them the quote last week, phoned up yesterday as they had not got back to me. They asked where I had sent the email only to be informed I had sent it to the wrong address, now if this had been my mistake that would have been OK but not only did I send it to the address they sent in the email but I also phoned to check that it was the right address, to say I was annoyed would be an under statement. They asked me to send it to them and they would acknowledge receipt and sort it, which I did and waited for the acknowledgment which never arrived so I phoned back and of course got a different customer advisor so had to go through the whole story again and they asked me to resend it to them and just before they hung up they asked if I had attached photo's of the damage to the email along with the quotes , I said no as they had not been asked for, so I took some and sent them as well. I wonder how long before they would have asked for photos had I not phoned as they had not acknowledged receipt of the email. I'm told someone will contact me today, I'm not holding my breath.
 
before my health troubles, I loved my garden, keeping it tidy, doing hanging baskets etc. However, the last gardening was done three years ago and the garden is a complete mess. I went out just now for an hour and I am completely done in, nearly filled the large brown waste bin with brambles. I had my pacemaker check on Wednesday and they said I had a few, very short episodes, where my HR had reached 195 bpm, which is twenty beats higher than my maximum when I was cycle racing thirty years ago. Still, that is probably better than my heart stopping for 25 seconds, which is what happened in October last year.
 
andya700 said:
We found out during the last year, that if we (living in Kent), try to book bloods via the phlebotomy service it takes about the same time as you. I found out by accident, after going to the surgery when it was quiet, first thing in the morning, that the nurse did mine immediately. We have just changed surgeries and my wife had her bloods done there two days after joining. Unfortunately, given what happened to me five years ago, I may harbour a very jaundiced opinion of the NHS generally, empty waiting rooms, yet you cannot get an appointment, being one glaring example.
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We’re in Kent too, the NHS service here is getting more and more awful. It’s almost impossible to get a GP appointment and the Anima service they use for triage doesn’t seem suitable for a lot of cases (for instance when the GP just asks you to update them, you have to go through pages and pages of pointless form filling ).

One of my local mates has Stage 3 prostate cancer and is supposed to have regular blood tests to check on his condition. He hasn’t been asked in for testing for a while so queried why not with his GP? Turned out that because he’d “missed” a telephone appointment (which he was never notified about and didn’t receive anyway) he’d been taken off the testing list and his case closed.
 
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