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Trumpet

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I should be OK, I get on the motorway at Junction 4, but I'll check.
Took me just under an hour and a half to travel about 14 miles this afternoon due to the M4 being closed at J11 Newbury. Wouldn't have got on M4 but there were no warning signs until after we'd got on at J12.
 

Gramaisc

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Tonight, I went out with the intention of having one pint and doing a small job.

It was a nice sunset on the way there.

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The infection control procedures are in place for indoor hospitality for the fully vaccinated.

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Things did not go fully to plan - I have had four pints and only just made it back here.

Having got back here, I have spent twenty minutes searching for a hidden smoke alarm that has started beeping at me - finally found it - I think...
 

BobClay

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Back in Cornwall after a clear run down. Got home at 0730 so 3½ hours with one stop for petroleum and personal ballast pumping. Much better than Friday... actually managed to utilise the cruise control on this car for the first time since I got it in March last year. Nice to be able to lean back and have a quick nap while the motorway rolls by .... :P

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SketchyMagpie

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How far away is the home? Hope she's avoided the virus?

She's in a different place now than she has been for most of it, she was at Maple Lodge but is now at a place in Tettenhall that's better equipped to deal with her dementia. Maple Lodge did get an outbreak late last year and nan tested positive but, luckily, I don't think they had any deaths from it.

Not being able to see her for this long is a result of the measures the home introduced, she has been able to have visitors (initially window and, this year, indoors)) in that time but we had to nominate a limited number of visitors and she has a lot of family.
 

staffordjas

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Going to have to make it part of my long daily walk if the doctor wants to see me later this week :rolleyes:. Only GP appointment my Weeping Cross surgery could give me is a phone appointment with John Amery Drive GP surgery , and will have to go there if they want to see me later that day.

One of the disadvantages of hubby returning back to the office . I've lost the convenience of our car being at my disposable whenever I wanted it !
 

littleme

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Going to have to make it part of my long daily walk if the doctor wants to see me later this week :rolleyes:. Only GP appointment my Weeping Cross surgery could give me is a phone appointment with John Amery Drive GP surgery , and will have to go there if they want to see me later that day.

One of the disadvantages of hubby returning back to the office . I've lost the convenience of our car being at my disposable whenever I wanted it !
Couldn't you drop him at work & keep the car for the day?
 

littleme

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That's almost seamless. A credit to the town centre. As Eric would have said to Ernie 'you can't see the join'.
To be honest, it was the most interesting thing in the town, I had an hour to kill while waiting for minime to have her eye test, is Stafford just vape shops now?
 

proactive

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To be honest, it was the most interesting thing in the town, I had an hour to kill while waiting for minime to have her eye test, is Stafford just vape shops now?
Don't know. Apart from Mill Street, parking at the Swan or parking next to Cafe Nero to grab a coffee I've not been in since the start of Lockdown 1.
 

staffordjas

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Couldn't you drop him at work & keep the car for the day?
If I knew the GP was definitely going to ask to see me, and I could get back to pick him up in time for when he finished work, I would.
Wouldn't go down well if I had the car and ended up not having to go to the surgery afterall.
Can't get a taxi or I'll most probably be spewing up by the time I got there.
(Just had argument with hubby as he reckons my travel sickness is all in my mind, after we were given a lift to Stone for lunch yesterday and I felt really ill both ways , while we were there, and for hours after. I didn't exactly want to feel ill! :mad: )
 

littleme

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If I knew the GP was definitely going to ask to see me, and I could get back to pick him up in time for when he finished work, I would.
Wouldn't go down well if I had the car and ended up not having to go to the surgery afterall.
Can't get a taxi or I'll most probably be spewing up by the time I got there.
(Just had argument with hubby as he reckons my travel sickness is all in my mind, after we were given a lift to Stone for lunch yesterday and I felt really ill both ways , while we were there, and for hours after. I didn't exactly want to feel ill! :mad: )
I'm travel sick if I have to sit in the back, and not a great front seat passenger either (I like to randomly squeel and throw my hand up in front of me while the carer is driving..... He drives way too near to the cars in front) , but I don't like to drive anywhere I haven't been before!
 

staffordjas

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I'm travel sick if I have to sit in the back, and not a great front seat passenger either, but I don't like to drive anywhere I haven't been before!
I'm perfectly ok if I'm driving myself, that's why I always drive when we go anywhere. I was sat in the back yesterday and soon wishing he had declined the kind offer of a lift for us and driven there myself.

I can't even go on kids swings .
 

SketchyMagpie

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Well, I didn't get to see Nan after all. She's been in 'end of life' care for the last month and dad was even called in to say goodbye last week as they thought she was fading rapidly. Because of that she's been allowed to have visitors at any time with no booking. Even so, dad called this morning to let them know that he, my mum, myself and my sister would be visiting her this afternoon and then we drove over (about a 50 minute journey). We got there, did our covid tests and then dad was called to one side and was told that the doctor had that morning taken her off 'end of life' care and so she was no longer allowed multiple visitors and only one of us could go in. I let my sister go as she was the first grandchild. But she is now only allowed two visits per week from one designated person, which will obviously have to be one of her children. So it's back to not knowing if I'll see her again, now.

I have sympathy for the fact they would have gotten in trouble had they let us in against the rules but they knew we were coming and also, to be blunt, saying she's no longer at the "end of life" stage is ludicrous.
 
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