As soon as you get a tingle absolutely smother your lips. You’ll look all greasy but it’s worth it! Lip salve is my go to everyday. I do find I don’t get as many as I used to. I use Nivea Hydrocare with SPF of 15. It’s pale blue. Always slathered in it. I go through loads!
To me that sounds perfect. I must say I would love to be buried in my garden, you need to apply for a licence from the local authority I think. I’m not sure if it would put folks off buying the house though! An other option I fancy is being put in the compost heap, but apparently that’s not allowed. In my will my instructions are I’m to be buried in a woodland cemetery in a willow casket. No funeral or wake, and definitely no cremation! Or I’ll haunt them!
I've bought two tubes of Zovirax, couldn't find any Blistex.
That’s ridiculous. I get BP, weight, bloods, feet all done together. Maybe the Doppler was out of action, but they could have still felt your pulses and pricked your feet with the thingymebob. That’s a pain having to go back in. It’s beyond belief. Grrr!!!The thought of being buried terrifies me. I've said i want cremation then ashes scattered on a rock in my favourite cornish cove and a glass of nice wine poured over me. As i dry i'll blow away over the sea. @rebrascora i hope it all goes ok. How sad to have the horses put down though, but understandable.
I've bought two tubes of Zovirax, couldn't find any Blistex.
I've just been for my annual review. Had blood taken, height and weight done but no comments on that (yet!). They didn't do my foot check. When i asked, they said i needed to go back for it another time! Why not do it now i said, my boots are off already. But no, i have to go back for it. BP was also higher. I said i had this last year, having to go back 3 times to have it checked, then keeping a weekly record to give them, then being sent for a 24hr monitor, after which nothing else was mentioned so i assumed everything was ok. Again, i have to keep a weekly record and take it back when i have the foot check. What happened to doing it all at the same time, then i just email them the BP readings. Does anyone else have separate appointments for their check up?
I have height and weight, feet, Bp and bloods with a HCP, then I'm supposed to go back and discuss my results with the Diabetes nurse, and I’m meant to have a medication review with the GP as well. What happens in practice is that the Diabetes nurse does a telephone appointment, and then (at my instigation) asks the Gp to update my meds for another year. So at least I only have to traipse down to the surgery in person once.
How about a boat? We could do a Viking funeral. And a bbq at the same time!
They tend to draw the bloods and tickle my feet at one appointment and then do everything else at another one.
I'm afraid that I don't try to do my own Tax Return: I've decided that it will prolong my life to pay my accountant to do it each year. I find it hard enough to pay my HMRC tax due online 🙄.I had to give it up as I worked into lunch, went hypo and got confused in the next bit!
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Hi Cliff.I am with you although my tax affairs are fairly straightforward and I could do it myself I find it easier to use an Accountant not just to ensure it is a smoother process but as it is a extra layer of checking then HMRC has always accepted my returns.
My father was an accountant and as soon as I started doing self-employed work (even though at that time it was only a tiny bit of private work alongside my full-time NHS job) he advised me to get an accountant (not him!) to do my tax. He pointed out (correctly) that it would be better me spending my time using my training and skills in my own profession to earn money to pay for an accountant, rather than try to be an amateur accountant and (inevitably) not do it as well or as quickly as a professional. I had to learn to value and cost my time - which is something that the NHS doesn't tend to do with its employees!
Only while you've got a cold sore, not forever! 😛
