Good morning fellow forum folks, a lovely and warm day, probably going to get into the high 20s later.
I have been trying to find a way to identify a USB HDD on a computer by its name using a batch file but without any success.
Am getting ready for a trip to Canberra on Thursday as well as doing a bit of cleaning before I go, Mopped the toilet and bathroom first then washed the bathroom mats. Got to check the tyres and fill up with fuel tomorrow.
A grey and cloudy day here in southern Hampshire. Not much exciting going on here. Just about to go for my daily walk, make some coffee and do a bit of shopping. Not much to add other than that.
As for me, I’m having quite a headache today, my TikTok account got hacked. It’s the one I use for selling products and I had uploaded so many clips there. I can’t do anything about it at the moment, which is really frustrating.
The good news, though, is that I finally managed to log in to my Amazon KDP account after thinking I was blocked. So at least there’s a little sunshine after the storm
Another hectic day, managed to get my walk/jog done early then Mrs Fox got an early appointment at the doctors for her painful knee. The doctor told her to go to the hospital for an x-ray and she was all booked in…I dropped her off at the door so she didn’t have to walk and then went to look for a parking spot. I drove around the hospital and surrounding roads for almost an hour, and it was gridlocked. I managed to find a spot about a mile from the hospital and walked to meet her.
The hospital was jam packed with people on beds being moved around, waiting ambulances, people in wheelchairs, and staff walking around clutching files and other medical stuff…Doncaster Royal Infirmary is a proper mess. It peeves me to think that our local council have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to re-open the deserted airport and neglected the hospital and the people of Doncaster. They have, however, been able to cause havoc with the smooth flow of traffic by installing tens of miles of cycle lanes that are rarely used.
I read where Jeremey Clarkson is thinking of standing in the next election as an MP representing Doncaster and ousting Ed Miliband and the whole net zero thing…He will deffo get my vote…
Good lord this sounds terrible. 1 mile walk from the hospital?
They really are compromising our health these days, our health should be paramount to anything.
We live in very worrying, anxious and scary times. It makes me want to cry how our NHS has gone down the pan.
Did you have to walk back to the car again whilst your wife waited at the entrance?
Wollongong hospital has a multi-storey car park next door for which the common folk have to pay but is free for pensioners. I must admit I still usually park in the street though.
Yes I did Bevvy, I left Mrs Fox in the entrance to the A&E while I went to fetch the car. It took me quite a while to drive through the car park to the drop off and pick up point as the traffic was so bad. Even ambulances were queueing up to get out onto the main road. At least we should have a working airport by 2028 if all goes well.
It was an airport before but closed because after nine years it never made a profit.
Public Funding…Guess who’s paying for that out of our council tax…
Given the size of some hospitals nowadays, you’ve got to be reasonably healthy to walk to where you need to get to. I’ve often wondered why having moving walkways (like you see at airports) and escalators aren’t a feature.
I don’t know if this is actually true but at the beginning of WWII my old man was training at Nettlebed Hospital. He reckoned it was so big the Yanks used jeeps to get from one side of the hospital to the other driving along the corridors.
When he was on fire watch at night on the roof he never strayed far from the roof access.
BTW I have no idea where Nettlebed Hospital is either but I think the name is right (ish)
That sounds bonkers, but I don’t doubt it. Golf buggies would be sensible I guess (especially in this day and age of e-vehicles), probably more so than milk floats which would actually be about the right size to carry beds
Also, if there was an HTA (hospital traffic accident ), they’d be in the right place to be quickly shipped to A&E.
Ooooh. You lucky thing. Around here in sunny Manchester, you’ll be lucky if you can find even a wide enough ledge, yet alone a chair, to rest one’s ailing and weary body as one sets out along the corridors of doom.
There are many entrances to Doncaster Royal Infirmary, I think the idea is, to only enter close to where you want to be. The x-ray department is miles from any entrance though and it is quite a walk whichever entrance you use. There are seats that fold out from the wall in various places if it’s a struggle. Last time we were here we used the shuttle bus. It’s a free bus service that runs from a massive car park down near the racecourse. However, we thought it might be quicker just to pop in for the x-ray…The x-ray itself took about fifteen minutes…including the waiting…
We were wrong…
), they’d be in the right place to be quickly shipped to A&E.