On 02/05/2018 09:16, Tim Watts wrote:

Those are truly some excellent yarns Bill

And what's more, true!

I got an infection in my hand after that op, so they had to do it all
again. They sedated me in the ward. Some time later I pressed the call
button. "Nurse, there's a pair of pliers balanced on top of that curtain
rail over there."
"Don't worry Mr Wright, the drugs can have strange effects."
Five minutes later I pressed the button again.
"Look, there really is a pair of pliers balanced on that rail. They
could fall and hurt somebody"
They sent for Estates and a man came with some steps, and retrieved the
pliers.

Bill

On Thu, 03 May 2018 04:37:59 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

On 02/05/2018 09:16, Tim Watts wrote:

Those are truly some excellent yarns Bill

And what's more, true!

I got an infection in my hand after that op, so they had to do it all
again. They sedated me in the ward. Some time later I pressed the call
button. "Nurse, there's a pair of pliers balanced on top of that curtain
rail over there."
"Don't worry Mr Wright, the drugs can have strange effects."
Five minutes later I pressed the button again.
"Look, there really is a pair of pliers balanced on that rail. They
could fall and hurt somebody"
They sent for Estates and a man came with some steps, and retrieved the
pliers.

Reminds me of the time I went into hospital with a nasty infection after
a prostate biopsy.

The first night on the actual ward, I was still quite restless and not
quite myself. In the middle of the night, I managed to tear out my
cannula - blood everywhere. I pressed the call button - there was a whole
group of people at the nurses' station, many wearing black trousers and
black jackets with mandarin-style collars. One of them - a very efficient
guy - came and sorted me out.

Next morning, two nurses changed the bloodstained sheets. They asked what
had happened, and I told them about the nice man. One of them looked at
me strangely and said "But we don't have any people in black uniforms". I
argued for a while, and eventually she must have decided I'd been
delirious, because she just suddenly agreed with me and moved on.

She was back a bit later, apologising. Apparently they were the new
outfits for student doctors.



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On 01/05/2018 16:45, John Rumm wrote:
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get pulled
off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

etc.

People just seem to accept that things are the way they are.

To be fair, even with a DIY mindset you often note all these things, and
then just add them to the list of things to do, that never gets done!


Not just me, then :-)

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On 01/05/2018 22:06, Huge wrote:
On 2018-05-01, DerbyBorn wrote:
I was at a clients the other day, popped to the loo and noticed the loo
roll holder flopping all about the place. Since I had my mini SA knife
in my pocket I fixed it. Makes me wonder if someone will be sitting
there later, thinking, oh look - someone got that fixed!



I always take a mini- multitool on holiday

AOL

And a roll of gaffer tape.


Actually I find ordinary PVC tape more useful.

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On Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:36:49 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
... people at the nurses' station, many wearing black trousers and
black jackets with mandarin-style collars. One of them - a very efficient
guy - came and sorted me out....
Apparently they were the new outfits for student doctors.

That must have been a relief, to find out you weren't worked on by a moonlighting waiter.

Owain

TMH wrote in news
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get pulled
off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

That pays my wages :-)



But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many can't
even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

DerbyBorn wrote:
TMH wrote in
news
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get
pulled off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

That pays my wages :-)



But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many
can't even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

I was not too long ago in a waiting room at a hospital.
It took two men over an hour to fit a new lock to a storage compartment
door.

I was not too long ago in a waiting room at a hospital.
It took two men over an hour to fit a new lock to a storage
compartment door.





The NHS probably paid a Service Provider several thousand in order to
get the job sourced at a good price. Most likely thought it would be
catagorised as a "Minor Works" and charged as a standard (stupid) price.

In article ,
Bob Eager writes:
Reminds me of the time I went into hospital with a nasty infection after
a prostate biopsy.

The first night on the actual ward, I was still quite restless and not
quite myself. In the middle of the night, I managed to tear out my
cannula - blood everywhere. I pressed the call button - there was a whole
group of people at the nurses' station, many wearing black trousers and
black jackets with mandarin-style collars. One of them - a very efficient
guy - came and sorted me out.

Next morning, two nurses changed the bloodstained sheets. They asked what
had happened, and I told them about the nice man. One of them looked at
me strangely and said "But we don't have any people in black uniforms". I
argued for a while, and eventually she must have decided I'd been
delirious, because she just suddenly agreed with me and moved on.

She was back a bit later, apologising. Apparently they were the new
outfits for student doctors.

My aunt was a psychiatrist. Her first job after qualifying was at
Napsbury Hospital just north of London, which was a very large
psychiatric hospital at the time. This was probably in the middle
1950's. At the time, all doctors wore white coats, but she was at
the turn of a period when training universities were suggesting
this might not be a good idea in phsychiatric medicine, so she
turned up in normal clothes on her first day. She arrived at the
ward she was to work on and started doing a rounds introducing
herself to each patient in turn. As she finished and went to leave
the ward, one of the nurses stopped her and said,
"No dear, you're not allowed to leave the ward".
In that moment, her whole life flashed before her, stuck in a locked
psychiatric ward for the rest of her years and never heard from again
by family and friends.

Next day, the white coat was worn...

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In article 2,
DerbyBorn writes:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get pulled
off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

etc.

People just seem to accept that things are the way they are.

When I turn up for a public repair event at some new venue,
and a light switch is hanging off the wall, and a display frame
is coming apart, etc, and my heavy rucksack is a toolkit, the
temptation is just too much to ignore...

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On Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:43:19 UTC+1, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
DerbyBorn wrote:
TMH wrote in
news
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get
pulled off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

That pays my wages :-)



But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many
can't even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

I was not too long ago in a waiting room at a hospital.
It took two men over an hour to fit a new lock to a storage compartment
door.

Last year while in a hopsital two nurses were trying to put up a sort of post/pigeon hole unit that had fallen down they were using a penknife and coins to try and do up the screws.

In message 2,
DerbyBorn writes

But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many can't
even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

They need to install Kalendar :-)
--
Graeme

Graeme wrote in
:

In message 2,
DerbyBorn writes

But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many can't
even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

They need to install Kalendar :-)

But they won't see the need because they are not bovvered.

On Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:04:06 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
But many householders don't recognise these jobs need doing. Many can't
even cope with the Wheelie bin schedules.

That's quite simple if you organise your sock drawer properly.

Grey Argyle socks today = grey bin.

etc.

Owain

In article ,
newshound writes
On 01/05/2018 16:45, John Rumm wrote:
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get pulled
off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

etc.

People just seem to accept that things are the way they are.
To be fair, even with a DIY mindset you often note all these things,
and then just add them to the list of things to do, that never gets
done!

Not just me, then :-)

Have you ever known a farmer fix a gate?

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"bert" wrote in message
...
In article , newshound
writes
On 01/05/2018 16:45, John Rumm wrote:
On 01/05/2018 16:34, DerbyBorn wrote:
...is that you notice things that others should fix.

The pub toilets with pipe clips missing - soon the pipe will get pulled
off.
The doors that don't close properly.
The push down taps that need fixing.
The dirty extractor fan louvres.
The groaning car door.
The weeds in the block paving.
Kitchen cupboard doors that need adjusting.
Door closers that don't.
Lamps that need replacing.
Overhanging shrubs and trees.
Drives that need sweeping
Floodlights that dazzle.
Redundant TV aerials needing removing.

etc.

People just seem to accept that things are the way they are.
To be fair, even with a DIY mindset you often note all these things,
and then just add them to the list of things to do, that never gets
done!

Not just me, then :-)

Have you ever known a farmer fix a gate?

Yep, but he didn't have much choice when some
fool put the 4WD thru it and drove right over it.