I once made a stand by walking out and sitting outside the ward in the rain
A woman had 6 adult children and their spouses and 22 grandchilder in the ward visiting from dawn to bleeedin dusk
I snapped when a gnurse told me I could not have the pain relief I was prescribed and the family decided to watch the match on the large telly on in the ward
I was in for strong pain relief for my edake
The ward sister came out to the sobbing soggy mass of me and persuaded me back with assurances that the fambly were in a side room with mama and telly
Selfish inconsiderate moddables all folk like that are
I was once woken up so I could be given my sleeping pill.
When son and hairless was in the SCBU my mother was not allowed to go in to see him because of the risk of infection, but forced to look at him from the other side of a window onto the unit.
She began to complain when she looked in on a family of five loud children visiting their latest little sibling, all rushing about and bashing into things including the three other babies in their incubators. As she said, if that lot of seething germs with snotty noses could be allowed in, why not a perfectly hygienic grandmother?
It was quite clear that they had got in by shouting at the nurses in Gujarati or Urdu or whatever it was, and “not understanding” the English word “no”.
Thinking of doing it here, once I’m sprung. I know we don’t do politics here, but one of the effects of Br•x•t could be a problem getting a decent bitter. Was thinking of going down the home brew route again - I always had good results before
I realise this is of relevance only to a few of us, but the TFL journey planner is bonkers.
Was looking up options for a small safari through the sarf Lunnon suburbs and it suggested a very convoluted bus/train/walk/tube/walk arrangement as the fastest or a four-bus shuffle as the, well, bussiest.
Whereas if I take one bus from the top of my road to Crystal Palace, walk past the pub on the corner (ok, that’s the tricky bit) and catch a second bus, it gets me to within 200 yards of where I want to be with minimal faffing. Oh, and probably all for a single fare on the Oyster, because there will - should !- be less than an hour’s gap between boarding first and second buses.
My local knowledge 1, TFL algorithm, 0
That is among my preferences. Both the official and unofficial versions [grinnity and indeed ginnity]
It does sometimes go about things in a very odd way, even so.
With the journeys I ask it for, it seems to take great pains to avoid buses even when they’d make sense and involve fewer changes of transport. I think it’s quite pessimistic about how long a bus takes compared with an Underground train.
Try Dublin - the person responsible for traffic policy and planning doesn’t drive - he’s a feckin’ cyclist.
We’ve got street signs that are invisible and/or illegible from a moving vehicle; junction approach that require drivers suddenly to swing across several lanes of traffic (did I mention he’s a cyclist?), impenetrable one-way systems and bus routes down two-way streets too narrow to allow two buses to pass.
