How can the Tories be proud of their leader? *Title edited by GNHQ*

Oh please don't. It gets boring.

I will have to read a book.

Nobody HAS to read what's posted on here; feel free to read a book....….

I've been ironing, packing, sewing, cooking, knitting - reading a book ...

isn't multi-tasking great.

Swearing is not a sign of a limited vocabulary

In fact the opposite is often the case

Google has numerous scientific articles on the subject

Whitewavemk2; ...love it!!!

Today I’ve prepare a Moroccan lamb lasagna, wrapped presents, shopped, read a bit more of my book, knitted -nearly finished - babies cot blanket-for local food bank, phoned a couple of friends, a bit of housework and of course on GN. I am now sat with a glass of wine with one eye on The Irishman - being watched by DH.

But can’t say I’m bored. I only look at threads that interest me, I haven’t got time to look at those that I don’t find interesting.

labaik fridgegate. Is trending on twitter. Some people are so witty.

I've been to a craft group.
We ate Christmas food, didn't do any craft, just nattered.
Breaking News child put in manger

That was me, I'm afraid.
It was my knitted Jesus which I shoved into a manger to take to craft.
He is on a bed of knitted straw if anyone was worried.

Let’s recap
Our PM broke the law, prorogued parliament
He lied to the Queen
He lied to his party about leaving EU on 31st Oct
He lied to us all about 40 new hospitals & 50k more nurses
Now BBC’s Political Editor commits #electoralfraud
#GE2019

Just seen a great photo of Andrew Neil interviewing a..............
fridge.

Jura

Weird and offbeat humour, à la British- has been the best part of this disastrous debâcle.

I’ve been out all afternoon Christmas shopping. Just got home, DH had made a delicious chicken curry, which I’ve just helped him to demolish.

To answer your question from earlier Jura, my daughter doesn’t do home visits at present, but she used to be responsible for visiting one of the care homes once a week, when she was at her last surgery. Since she moved, someone else is responsible for home visits. She works some Saturday mornings at the surgery to provide a clinic, she does that in rotation with the other partners, and also for things like flu jab clinic. She works some other Saturday mornings and some Bank Holidays down at the hospital, providing a GP clinic there. Those clinics are additional to her normal surgeries, she chooses to do them and is paid extra for them.
Her husband does a lot of weekend and evening and night work, in a variety of different contexts. Some clinics he can run from home, with his laptop and phone, by talking to the patient and then emailing a prescription through to the duty chemist. He also does out of hours home visits, this involves the NHS employing a driver for him, he’s not allowed to drive himself. He works as a salaried doctor, not a partner. His decision, he didn’t want to be a partner. So he works in the surgery doing the clinics he has prearranged. Sometimes he does weekend clinics at the local Health Centre. GPs patterns of work have changed enormously, all the hours are covered but not by one dedicated GP.

Do you mean this one Jura? Very witty

Sadly, this isn't so funny.

Yes, brilliant, innit.

Thanks maddyone- and this demonstrates so well how much the rôle of the GP has changed in a very short space of time. As your DD and sil show- so many are choosing to work part-time or to remain free to work as and when and remain free. GPs previously had to be responsible for their patients 24/7 365 days a year- and fully responsible for finding and paying locums, or swapping/sharing nights and weekends with colleagues.

It also required a wife (sorry but that was mostly the case) or spouse/partner, or paid person- to be on call with them to take calls if they were called away on a visit. I was slave to the process, unable to go out, or to sleep, 1 night in 3 or 4, and 1 weekend in 3 or 4. Unpaid, without any training or qualifications- having to make possibly life-saving decisions until he came back from home visit- often a long way away and taking 1 or more hours.

The first mobile phones, aka 'the brick' didn't work in rural areas- so it took years for them to work properly with good rural coverage. It was such a massive relief and freed me to live my life and go back to full time study and work.

I think, also, it was probably safe for GP's to make night calls alone back then, whereas now they need back up. As I've mentioned before, I never realised GP's would be on call all night and still have to go to work the next day.

I think few people were aware- some nights were quiet- others a total nightmare- come home, get back into bed and as soon as falling asleep, phone would go- and so on. And as said, it involved the oh, most often a wife. Many GPs of course married nurses or doctors- but in my case, I didn't have a clue- and had to play it by ear- and decide whether to call an ambulance as OH was away for over 1 hour and not contactable- still have the shivers over some of the nights when I sat on the stairs, not knowing what to do.

The night before the election and “election fraud “ is trending.

What on Earth is going on?

This is a convo just for certain people is it?

I don’t think so pink

Just muscle in.

I think it’s just the twitterati WWM2 getting overly hysterical.

If the mother didn't want it politicised why take the photo and send it to local paper. Similarly the father of the young man killed in London who gives interviews to newspapers. Sad for both families.

Tooting29 I think the mother probably just wanted people to know what happened. I don't suppose she sat there thinking aboout the consequences. I don't suppose she expected. someone to post things about her making it all up.