PS I hope their feeding patterns are predictable i.e. that they will be back tomorrow as I want to be ready with a camera next time
Good luck with that! I have a maternity roost in my roof each year and if you think some birds are fast................
Bats at dusk
Bats at dusk
I have seen at dusk bats around but this evening with very good light spotted 4 to 5 bats quartering across a small'ish area of the nearby treeline....................they were there for about 5 mins in the end.
PS I hope their feeding patterns are predictable i.e. that they will be back tomorrow as I want to be ready with a camera next time
maybe phonetically ''right' but spelling wrong i.e. maybe PC Halsey.......just saying!
‘Oh..did I misread it ? I recall having a laugh at it. From what you say then maybe someone In the studio putting the piece together for screening asked what her name was,then whoever it was said..as you say..phonetically, Horsey and it was written as that. Never mind,it gave me a laugh in these troubled times.
I had to visit our local pharmacy to pick up prescriptions for me & my wife. I drove there & back with the roof down (first time this year) on my Mini Convertible, stuck it in 'Sports' mode and gave it a bit of heavy right foot......my wife wondered why I was smiling when I got home.......
I was only speculating..........the world is full of mis-heard names and words but I agree with you ~ if she really was PC Horsey, that catagorises as "you could not make it up......".
The temperature hit 17C I could have driven for miles.... but I did all of 4 miles round trip.Amazing to get such good weather that you can drive with the roof down.
I also went to the pharmacy ....this morning ....and when I arrived I had to stand in a queue outside with people who had just come from the adjacent surgery. I could also see the queue outside the supermarket opposite where they were being let in one at a time as shoppers came out. When I got inside the pharmacy, also one at a time,I had to stand by a 3’ chrome pole with a notice on it..’Wait here until the counter is clear’ and when the person infront of me left I went to the counter but had to stand a metre or so away and they’d put up a 2’ Perspex screen. The staff wore surgical gloves.
I handed in my prescription,it will take a week before I can collect and picked up my wife’s prescription that she’d put in a week ago.
The temperature hit 17C I could have driven for miles.... but I did all of 4 miles round trip.
Our pharmacist was standing at the door of his pharmacy, nobody was allowed in. There was a short, well behaved queue of 3 people (including me) outside at approx 3m intervals. When it came to my turn, I asked him for our repeat prescriptions (ordered online 3 days ago), he went inside & reappeared a few minutes later with the items bagged & handed them over & off I went. Being over 60 there was no charge. The only downside is if you do have to pay he will only take cheques/cash, no card transactions which is a shame as people are forced to hand over money & accept change which flies against the recommendations for cashless transactions.
We are lucky, our GP surgery is in the same building as the pharmacy & normally a repeat prescription request is turned round within 48 hours, it was more for my convenience I left it 3 days. I feel sorry for those patients who have to pay, at around £10 a go it's a tax on the sick.You did well with only a three day wait for collection.Even before this crisis..it is a crisis,I think..it could be five days if it included a weekend. No, we don't pay either. Marvellous when you think about it in relation to most other countries.I often think that when I'm waiting inside the pharmacy in normal times and watch them handing out the prescriptions with some people getting quite a large bag full. I think, great re the system and sorry for the person that they need so much.
I'm surprised at the cash/cheque rule because, as you say, cards are recommended to cut out contact with those taking payment and with the cashiers in the supermarkets. At our local Morrisons/Sainsburys/Asda/Tesco...no Waitrose here yet, that's in Stroud where they have more wealth than we do..lol.. it's cards, as far as I know
I handed in my prescription,it will take a week before I can collect and picked up my wife’s prescription that she’d put in a week ago.
Aha! Tape silos. Wonderful things - until someone messes with them. Of course, when enquiries are made no-one has been inside for days...it sounds like the automatic computer tape libraries I used to work with when I was a mainframe systems engineer.
I worked with both STK and IBM tape silos, as well as the IBM 3850 MSS, there was a beast if ever there was one.Aha! Tape silos. Wonderful things - until someone messes with them. Of course, when enquiries are made no-one has been inside for days...
We are lucky, our GP surgery is in the same building as the pharmacy & normally a repeat prescription request is turned round within 48 hours, it was more for my convenience I left it 3 days. I feel sorry for those patients who have to pay, at around £10 a go it's a tax on the sick.
As far as not accepting card payments, it's their policy, no idea why. It's not as if he's a luddite, they are fully computerised, he has a robotic picking & dispensing system installed, it sounds like the automatic computer tape libraries I used to work with when I was a mainframe systems engineer.
According to one of the pharmacies the doctor’s surgery my wife works at deals with there are a couple of reasons for wait times going up.
People are doing the equivalent of panic buying their medication by asking for a repeat well in advance of when they need it e.g. got 3 months supply a month ago but want 3 months more now.
For the pre-loaded dosette boxes of drugs they do for elderly and vulnerable people which are normally done just in time they are prepping multiple weeks worth in case they have staff off sick or isolating.
Not UK prescription charge.I was wrong, just checked, UK prescription charge is £9.15 per item from April 1st 2020 not 'around £10' as previously commented......
Still a lot though, especially if you need multiple items .......
You still have to make sure it's road worthy though.I've just read about existing MOT's being extended for an additional 6 months due to COVID, mine runs next months so thats one less thing to worry about.
I paid for them all my life until I hit 60 then 3 hrs later my particular medicine was taken off prescription only which meant I had to pay again, fortunately my Dr decided what I was on had become ineffective so he prescribed a different type so they are "free" again. Wife has always paid for hers too.That's expensive for one item. I wonder how many people actually pay it?
And in Wales & Northern Ireland.Not UK prescription charge.
It's free up here in Scotland
Ordered THIS from Amazon yesterday at about 10:00. Arrived this morning at about 10:30 via Royal Mail. Should pass a few hours!
Of course we in England are happy to pay for your prescriptionsBefore anyone in England complains, it's the way the Prescription Pricing Authority charges the other parts of the UK