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staffordjas
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Sitting in airport waiting for our delayed flights ' due to strikes' on our changed Jet2 plane to a 'Smart Lynx' one instead.
Can't believe I just paid 17 euros for 2 sandwiches and a coke for me & son. Good job hubby didn't queue up with us, or we'd be going hungry. Not told him the cost yet ...
Saw Arge from Towie ( I'd have never known, son & girlfriend pointed him out).
Can't believe I just paid 17 euros for 2 sandwiches and a coke for me & son. Good job hubby didn't queue up with us, or we'd be going hungry. Not told him the cost yet ...
Saw Arge from Towie ( I'd have never known, son & girlfriend pointed him out).
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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I have a new phone - with the INTERNET!!
I can have Stafford Forum everywhere I go!!
New phone means new phone holder, but then I need a new handbag... It's getting expensive!
I can have Stafford Forum everywhere I go!!
New phone means new phone holder, but then I need a new handbag... It's getting expensive!
Thehooperman
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Sitting in this real ale bar in Yarmouth waiting for the red arrows and BBMF and the rest of the airshow to start.
staffordjas
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Sat on plane on Manchester runway as emergency crash landing in front of us at Brum as we were approaching ,so diverted us as we hadn't got much fuel to circle til runway was cleared.
Then We had to prepare incase of emergency landing of our own and told to leave bags if we did have emergency and luckily landed quickly with a bump but at least safely .
Now waiting for bus to get us off plane as we can't fly back to Brum.
Then got to get coach back down to Brum to get our cars from the carpark.
Bit of a nightmare !
Then We had to prepare incase of emergency landing of our own and told to leave bags if we did have emergency and luckily landed quickly with a bump but at least safely .
Now waiting for bus to get us off plane as we can't fly back to Brum.
Then got to get coach back down to Brum to get our cars from the carpark.
Bit of a nightmare !
staffordjas
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Just had announcement on plane...Manchester chocca with diverted planes and we can't get off for ages .
Decided it's a holiday in the UK in the future,!
Decided it's a holiday in the UK in the future,!
Perrier
Banned
My security cams just picked up a police car and van going past my house and up towards moorfields.
...5 mins later i got a txt from my daughter stating said car and van and officers on foot chasing two guys down the stone road ( one trying not to spill his tin of beer lol )*
* The offender not the officer
one has been arrested , the other last seen waiting near the bus stop to be arrested ( or just finishing his beer lol )
more news later if i get any
...5 mins later i got a txt from my daughter stating said car and van and officers on foot chasing two guys down the stone road ( one trying not to spill his tin of beer lol )*
* The offender not the officer
one has been arrested , the other last seen waiting near the bus stop to be arrested ( or just finishing his beer lol )
more news later if i get any
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I elected not to post this earlier - http://avherald.com/h?article=4b57c3dd ...
staffordjas
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Still waiting in Manchester for transport to Brum. One taxi turning up every 10 minutes for families and old people first. Whole plane full fighting for them
To the bloke from Salt, who goes in the Wildwood....good choice getting the train back to stafford!
To the bloke from Salt, who goes in the Wildwood....good choice getting the train back to stafford!
staffordjas
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Now speeding ( literally) down the M6 in a rather scary taxi for our 2hr leg to Brum.
staffordjas
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Shit...told you it's a scary ride.. after he mistakenly sld a detour through the services, nearly in a pile up with broken down van in lane
Wish I was allowed to drive instead
Feel sick
Wish I was allowed to drive instead
Feel sick
littleme
250,000th poster!
Hope youre home safe soon.
staffordjas
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Pleased to say we finally got back home safe
Taxi driver that airline organised was a pleasant bloke , but ...Must have set a record for Manchester to Brum , an uncontrolled 110 most of the way (he did slow down to about 80 through the 50 bits.....) whilst jabbering away into his handheld mobile phone. Apparently he'd been celebrating Ramadan or something for the last 3 days and wasn't meant to be working that shift. But jumped at the chance when he got the call for emergency drivers for the diverted passengers. Don't think he realised he was going down the toll road , as he was sticking to the fast lane and had a shock when he saw the toll booths 
My 70 mph back up the toll road felt like a crawl !
Right , got to look where to book for our September holiday ....don't think my left over euros will be used again this year after yesterdays nightmare.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
For one reason or another, myself and another member of staff spent the night up Royal Stoke A&E with a patient,
Without giving owt away, this person couldn't be left with just 1 member of staff, there had be 2 there all the time. Not once were we offered a cup of tea or water in the 10hrs we were up there, only got given a chair at 5.30am this morning. It wasn't like they were rushed off their feet or anything, in fact, the staff spent a lot of time at the nurses station talking about their partners and what they were like round the home.
We waited almost 4hrs to be seen by a Doctor, I had to ask if we'd been forgotten about because we'd waited in reception for so long. Within 2 mins of my asking, boom, someone appeared. It was only when the nursing staff were examining him that we had the chance go the loo.
My point is, i've never experienced this sort of treatment at Stafford/County/DGH. Staff up there are lovely, and helpful. I just hope the merger with St.Georges gives them all a kick up the arse that's needed. Sorry if i've waffled, i'm no good at getting my feelings across.
Without giving owt away, this person couldn't be left with just 1 member of staff, there had be 2 there all the time. Not once were we offered a cup of tea or water in the 10hrs we were up there, only got given a chair at 5.30am this morning. It wasn't like they were rushed off their feet or anything, in fact, the staff spent a lot of time at the nurses station talking about their partners and what they were like round the home.
We waited almost 4hrs to be seen by a Doctor, I had to ask if we'd been forgotten about because we'd waited in reception for so long. Within 2 mins of my asking, boom, someone appeared. It was only when the nursing staff were examining him that we had the chance go the loo.
My point is, i've never experienced this sort of treatment at Stafford/County/DGH. Staff up there are lovely, and helpful. I just hope the merger with St.Georges gives them all a kick up the arse that's needed. Sorry if i've waffled, i'm no good at getting my feelings across.
Thehooperman
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When I was a patient there last year my room was next to the nurses' station. I heard one Nightshift moaning about two elderly patients who were totally disorientated, thought they were somewhere else and were constantly shouting. One of the Nightshift actually said "ignore him he's just a moaning !#*! and mark it up that we've checked Mr xxxxx for bedsores".
I also found out that they'd lied about checking me and apparently I'd refused to roll over and be checked.
I then got transferred to Stafford and the staff were great and on top of their game throughout my stay.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Patient confidentiality goes right out the window at both hospitals. I've been sat with a patient and heard all about the bloke in the next beds piles and false teeth.
Compared to how it used be, Stafford is brilliant now, it still isn't 100%, but it's improved tremendously from when my mum died up there.
littleme
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Myself & the Carer spent the afternoon at Stafford one last Thursday, it was the quickest we've ever been there, everything looked fresh & clean and the staff were super efficiant, VERY different from when they tried to kill me several years ago!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Last Tuesday, somebody gave me a bag of shish kebabs, because they were too hot and spicy for her.
Just now, she asked me if they were not too hot and spicy for me, too.
I have now moved them from the boot of my car into the adjacent green bin.
They were surprisingly odour free.....
Just now, she asked me if they were not too hot and spicy for me, too.
I have now moved them from the boot of my car into the adjacent green bin.
They were surprisingly odour free.....
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