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Afternoon denizens
Grey and rainy out
I had to pop round to the GP's for my monthly prescription, which I meant to pick up yesterday but forgot all about, just as I had the day before that. In an inversion of the normal course of events, the rain stopped just before I went out, and resumed after I'd got back. Only a couple of minutes respite, but it worked for meComment
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The surgery closes at lunchtime on Thursday. Apparently this is a long-standing thing among GP surgeries; Thursday afternoon was traditionally the day on which the staff spent the afternoon sorting out files and suchlike clerical work.
Of course the files are all electronic now, so as far as I'm aware they all just go home - I've certainly never seen any signs of activity in there on Thursday afternoon. There was a call a few years ago for them to abandon this outdated practice in the name of "providing a better service to patients", but it seems to have been completely ignored.
I don't blame them myself. Nothing wrong with taking an afternoon off during the week. I think all places should do it.
Remember when every town had its "early closing day", usually either Thursday or Wednesday, when all the shops would close at lunchtime? If you looked in a gazetteer like the AA Guide it would list the day for every town and city. In fact, when we moved from Liverpool to Bedford, I remember it being mentioned by my parents that Bedford had the same early closing day (Thursday).
But by then, in the early Seventies, it was already starting to die out, and it's now just a memory to remind us of a time when our society seemed to recognise that there's more to quality of life than access to retail outletsComment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostSunny Swansea as it once was:
Much like the Dark Side of The Moon.
Without the music.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostScrubs up quite well given fifty years or so of tidying, doesn't it?
It's difficult to remember how truly fecking awful it was.
It may be imagination, but I'm sure I can remember looking, back in the early 70s, from the Wichtree roundabout towards Llansamlet, and seeing in the distance a great yellow heap of what I assume was sulphur.
I think the IMI place was still running back then.
Everything was black.
Apart from the yellow pile of sulphur of course.
That was very yellow.
There's some nice lakes.
From which it's inadvisable to take the fish.
Coz of the arsenic.
The sheep grazing down there used to be unfit for human consumption for much the same reason.Comment
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to pass your time...
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/press_and_med...zzle-2015.aspx…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Postto pass your time...
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/press_and_med...zzle-2015.aspx
Where is sasguru when you need him?Comment
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Contemplating knocking off for the day.Comment
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Need to remember to send xmas cards this week. Over here the cloggies don't do xmas in the conventional sense as theirs is over and done with on the 5th.Comment
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