Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven


Hello everybody. Gorgeous sunny day in Liverpool. I've been working in the extension to Dad's dining room which has a conservatory style window. I nearly melted! I've also just had to have an emergency hoover of my car after Dad asked me to take him to a hospital appointment tomorrow. Even hoovered he'll die when he gets in it!. His taxi to the hospital did not arrive today until.1.15. He's supposed to start his dialysis at 1. The taxi firm just doesn't give a toss. Although whoever negotiated the contract needs a good shake. The firm is based in St Helens so none of the drivers want to take patients into Liverpool and especially don't want to have to drive into Liverpool and bring them home again. Also for the homeward journey they have a 90 minute window. So, if a patient finishes at 5.30 the taxi firm has until 7.00 to pick them up. These are sick and/or elderly people. It's such a long day. I can't for the life of me understand why the contract wasn't awarded to a firm based in Liverpool and much tighter timescales applied.
Anyway rant over. Hope you all have a lovely evening.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Hello everybody. Gorgeous sunny day in Liverpool. I've been working in the extension to Dad's dining room which has a conservatory style window. I nearly melted! I've also just had to have an emergency hoover of my car after Dad asked me to take him to a hospital appointment tomorrow. Even hoovered he'll die when he gets in it!. His taxi to the hospital did not arrive today until.1.15. He's supposed to start his dialysis at 1. The taxi firm just doesn't give a toss. Although whoever negotiated the contract needs a good shake. The firm is based in St Helens so none of the drivers want to take patients into Liverpool and especially don't want to have to drive into Liverpool and bring them home again. Also for the homeward journey they have a 90 minute window. So, if a patient finishes at 5.30 the taxi firm has until 7.00 to pick them up. These are sick and/or elderly people. It's such a long day. I can't for the life of me understand why the contract wasn't awarded to a firm based in Liverpool and much tighter timescales applied.
Anyway rant over. Hope you all have a lovely evening.
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What a terrible way of going on. Seems odd that there are no taxi firms in Liverpool to take on the contract could it be they don’t think it’s worth their while? A friend of ours father had dialysis a few years ago and the patients were picked up and brought home in a mini bus, non emergency NHS transport. I suppose this facility has fallen victim to NHS cuts. Hope your Dad is okay and not too overcome with the state of your car! lol
 
My chimney now has a certificate! The sweep said it was an accident waiting to happen ffs. 10kg of soot from a bungalow chimney is not usual apparently.

Still, no harm done, and cant wait for the log burner to be installed in a few weeks time. Nikki would have absolutely loved it. I still cant work out why we never considered one before.

I am always wary of saying a corner has been turned, cos, well, y'know life has a nasty habit of bollock kicking. But this last week or 2, after I made the decision to stay here, dare I say, I am kinda optimistic about stuff. @Barnfred 55 will get it. Others, obvs. as well.

Oh, back to the sweep. Lovely lad, and when I said I had decided to stay, hence the burner, he looked at me like I had a potato on my head, and said, "Mark, why on earth would you want to move from here? Its a magic house, and a massive plot; you wont find this place again".

He aint the first to make that observation.
 
Gwladysover said:
What a terrible way of going on. Seems odd that there are no taxi firms in Liverpool to take on the contract could it be they don’t think it’s worth their while? A friend of ours father had dialysis a few years ago and the patients were picked up and brought home in a mini bus, non emergency NHS transport. I suppose this facility has fallen victim to NHS cuts. Hope your Dad is okay and not too overcome with the state of your car! lol
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My Dad, after he retired, organised a voluntary taxi service for patients, usually elderly, to be taken to the Bristol hospitals for non urgent stuff. The drivers petrol costs were covered by the GP surgery, iirc, maybe the patients themselves, and it is still going 30 years after he started it.
 

Gwladysover said:
What a terrible way of going on. Seems odd that there are no taxi firms in Liverpool to take on the contract could it be they don’t think it’s worth their while? A friend of ours father had dialysis a few years ago and the patients were picked up and brought home in a mini bus, non emergency NHS transport. I suppose this facility has fallen victim to NHS cuts. Hope your Dad is okay and not too overcome with the state of your car! lol
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He has occasionally been picked up by hospital transport, as youvsay, a minibus, but not very often. I don't know how they decide who gets what. My cousin works in Alder Hey and they use a Liverpool based firm. It's probably down to money - who made the lowest bid- regardless of whether they can deliver the service or not.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Hello everybody. Gorgeous sunny day in Liverpool. I've been working in the extension to Dad's dining room which has a conservatory style window. I nearly melted! I've also just had to have an emergency hoover of my car after Dad asked me to take him to a hospital appointment tomorrow. Even hoovered he'll die when he gets in it!. His taxi to the hospital did not arrive today until.1.15. He's supposed to start his dialysis at 1. The taxi firm just doesn't give a toss. Although whoever negotiated the contract needs a good shake. The firm is based in St Helens so none of the drivers want to take patients into Liverpool and especially don't want to have to drive into Liverpool and bring them home again. Also for the homeward journey they have a 90 minute window. So, if a patient finishes at 5.30 the taxi firm has until 7.00 to pick them up. These are sick and/or elderly people. It's such a long day. I can't for the life of me understand why the contract wasn't awarded to a firm based in Liverpool and much tighter timescales applied.
Anyway rant over. Hope you all have a lovely evening.
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Really Anj? I thought it would be obvious.
 

roydo said:
My chimney now has a certificate! The sweep said it was an accident waiting to happen ffs. 10kg of soot from a bungalow chimney is not usual apparently.

Still, no harm done, and cant wait for the log burner to be installed in a few weeks time. Nikki would have absolutely loved it. I still cant work out why we never considered one before.

I am always wary of saying a corner has been turned, cos, well, y'know life has a nasty habit of bollock kicking. But this last week or 2, after I made the decision to stay here, dare I say, I am kinda optimistic about stuff. @Barnfred 55 will get it. Others, obvs. as well.

Oh, back to the sweep. Lovely lad, and when I said I had decided to stay, hence the burner, he looked at me like I had a potato on my head, and said, "Mark, why on earth would you want to move from here? Its a magic house, and a massive plot; you wont find this place again".

He aint the first to make that observation.
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As you know mate what may seem obvious to others may not be to you. You have to go with your own gut feeling. The only thing I would say is don't rush into a decision and I don't think you have done.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
He has occasionally been picked up by hospital transport, as youvsay, a minibus, but not very often. I don't know how they decide who gets what. My cousin works in Alder Hey and they use a Liverpool based firm. It's probably down to money - who made the lowest bid- regardless of whether they can deliver the service or not.
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Je suis Fred.
 
roydo said:
My chimney now has a certificate! The sweep said it was an accident waiting to happen ffs. 10kg of soot from a bungalow chimney is not usual apparently.

Still, no harm done, and cant wait for the log burner to be installed in a few weeks time. Nikki would have absolutely loved it. I still cant work out why we never considered one before.

I am always wary of saying a corner has been turned, cos, well, y'know life has a nasty habit of bollock kicking. But this last week or 2, after I made the decision to stay here, dare I say, I am kinda optimistic about stuff. @Barnfred 55 will get it. Others, obvs. as well.

Oh, back to the sweep. Lovely lad, and when I said I had decided to stay, hence the burner, he looked at me like I had a potato on my head, and said, "Mark, why on earth would you want to move from here? Its a magic house, and a massive plot; you wont find this place again".

He aint the first to make that observation.
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In Finland by law you must have all the flues done or your insurance in invalid .I hope the lad was wearing proper clothes .Our first sweep ( that I knew ) withered away with a lung desease and died way before his time .
As tempting as it might be don't burn any glued wood or obviouslt plastics as they stick to the inside of the flue and are nigh impossible to move .
Next step is to break into the flue half way up install as smoke door and rack and slow smoke your meat and fish ,I saw it in Germany and have always fancied one .Oh no not another project !
 
Good morning all on this once again sunny but cool day .I hope all had a great night and have an even better day .
When we went picking on Sunday with a neighbour he had an old "picker " and it was handmade so I have to make one ,it has prongs that are from spokes so off to get some .
My problem is that whilst thinking about this I realised that if I find a wheel then I can make a weathervane from the spindle !
This in a way sadly is my life . I really would like to sit and read but my mind must have something to plan and my hands something to make .I know some think it good but the constant doing ,fixing and repairing sees me up early and lying awake when I am in bed :-IMG_20220807_100146.webp
 

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