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7am appointment at Alder Hey with the plastic surgeon. He needs to be sedated. This gon be fun

Ouch! Hope he’s mends quickly.

Oh blimey, posted before your update, hope it goes well for him mate.

Thanks man. They're on their way back now. He seems ok. He's a little trooper (small T)

Ouch. You must be a bit scared but he's in good hands.

Oh, goodness. There is no preparation for this. He’s in the best hands, and the sedation is just to help stop him stressing. It will be over soon, and you can all make the biggest fuss of him. Make sure big sister gets lots of cuddles too, I bet she’s shaken up. Thinking of you all xxx

Thanks all. He's sleeping now. I'm most worried about denying him breakfast at 6am

Sounds ghastly. Hope he gets patched up quickly.

Sat in reception now. He's feeling sorry for himself!

I hope it’s over as quickly as possible. At least he’s got a couple of days off school with the weekend so will have you to give him snuggles x

How's he doing now?

He's had the surgery ( after 9 frickin hours in the waiting room) and in recovery doing well. Phew!

Nine hours waiting? Ouch, that must have been difficult. Mend well, Little dude xx

We had to split it. I did 7 hours of tedium, MrsPaz did the hard bit where he was sedated and wheeled away.

I reckon I got the better deal

Yes, you perhaps did, though I bet you were all nervous throughout the day. Will he be coming home tonight or staying in until tomorrow?

Have the doctors given you any tips on preparing food that he won’t struggle eating. I think I asked but don’t know if you saw earlier, but are all his teeth ok? Hopefully he hasn’t knocked any out x

He'll be home tonight. Teeth are apparently all fine. He's already scoffed a cheese sandwich, so I think we'll be ok for food!

Best get a curry delivered. Just in case.

Sushi, kids love sushi.

Oh, that’s brilliant news. All his favourite foods for the weekend, then. And great to hear his teeth are ok. Not that he’d look any less cute without if they are still his baby teeth.

Glad to hear he’s on the mend.

He's home, fed and sleeping. He asked if his sister could sleep in his bedroom to keep him company. So cute.

Thanks for the kind words, folks

Awwww! That’s cute.

What not to do with a carbon fibre seat post.

Use it as a strap on?

Shit light sabre?

Don't be daft.

Magic wand innit.

Hoover.

I've booked and paid for a house in Tenby for a week in June with my parents

Next week I would have got details on address and how to get keys etc

Instead of that, I get an email that starts with...

"This is a courtesy email to let you know the owner is having another house built across the drive from (the house we have rented)"

They knew about this when they took my money back in February, the reason for this sudden courtesy is that the building work has overrun so that now affects my booking as follows

I can't park on the drive of the house (as its a building site), they laughingly offered to refund my parking in some coach park 500 yards away on the production of receipts.

We have to drive to the agent's office miles away to get the keys as I can't use the night safe, there is an HSE issue because it's in the building site the owner has created. Not an HSE issue with the proposal I unload my kids and car in front of the property on a narrow road with a blind bend 20 foot away

The ended with saying that all this shit plus builders on the doorstep hasn't affected any other bookings but offered me around 20% of the booking as a result

Told them to refund me and I'll find something else, the agent had the cheek to link me another property from the tosser who owns this one as an option!

Wearing this top and having short arms gave me particularly stupid sunburn. (Not my hand, obviously).

Ouch!

Pretty top though.

Definitely more nays than yays of late -

1) It looks like some bloke in France has scammed me out of £200 worth of stuff on my site. He's placed two orders in quick succession, and not long after the first has arrived, the card holder has reported it as fraudulent. The second order arrived with him today and I'm expecting the same result again. Judging by all the info on the card processing site, I might be out of luck, but I've provided proof of the order, postage contact and tracking info, so we'll see what happens
2) Sent 56 discs to be cleaned/repaired by an online service I'd used before, but now they've just stopped replying to my emails and no sign of the discs after a month, so they could be lost plus the £80+ I spent (and this time I paid via bank transfer so I'm not sure I have any options there)
3) Minor nay - had a phone call a couple of hours ago saying that my rotten window frame and door are getting replaced tomorrow (this is a good thing.. although it's taken six months) so I'm trying to clear some space at short notice. This is what my dining table looks like at the moment...


I'm steadily working on my anxiety and depression, but this stuff isn't helping...

That's awful news about the scammers! I hope you get some recompense.

Good news on finally getting the window and door sorted, it will be worth it when it's done.

Just take it one day at a time, and keep going. I didn't feel like I was ever going to come out of the other side of it - but I kept going and I mostly have now. Still have the odd blip, but recover more quickly and can actually socialise. :hugs:

Bunch of buggers. Is there a chance the disc cleaners have gone out of business?

Possibly. I haven't ruled out them being incompetent either. They were taken over by another disc repair company and I'd been exchanging emails with one of the blokes from the new place and everything seemed in order, so it's a little surprising that the contact has just stopped. I'll just assume the worst in this case and with the French guy and if anything positive comes from either, it'll be a bonus.

The scammers are utter gits, obviously. Particularly picking on small businesses.

Also, what Goddess Jasmine said. And (although I know from experience it's easier said than done), please try to notice and enjoy any small YAY!s, no matter how seemingly-insignificant.

Mimi’s joined the X-Men!

Just had a wisdom tooth out.

Not wise. I hope you feel better soon.

Looks like incompetency might have been the right answer after all. Last week I finally got an email reply from the bloke I'd been dealing with saying that the discs were posted and should be with me by now. No apology and quite a generic email so I felt I was being fobbed off. Except, today, a mere two months after sending my discs off, they've actually arrived! Haven't checked to see how good a job they've done on them, but at least I've had them back again.

Glad you've at least had them returned. 2 months though!

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Weird. I pocket-posted that.

This is, indeed, the biggest Nay here.

And once again, Dad's in hospital. Interestingly though, I spoke to my brother about him earlier and he said that there's a suspicion that my Dad might have Whipple's Disease. It's supposedly rare, but looking through the symptoms, it does describe a lot of my Dad's problems to a tee. Hopefully if they can come to a conclusion one way or another, they can start with the appropriate treatment.

For the second time in a few weeks, I have ended up in a conversation with someone who believes the media is brainwashing us, that they are 'awake' due to getting their news only from "a few trusted youtube sources". I fell into this one. He mentioned "the muslims" and how "they are trying to divide us" and I thought the latter meant the media (as in, paint them as the enemy), so agreed. Actually he meant the muslims are attempting to divide us, the west has spent years trying to be 'more civilised' and so on. The jews came into it, as well.

The first was more crazy, into 'disclosure', telling me which planet I was from and so on. But add to the second (Canadian) a few conversations with Australians who were interested in "sharia law in London" and it really does feel like people overseas have a strange view of the UK, and there is, as Stewart Lee put it, "a whiff of fascism in the air". If I get into the middle bit of America, I'm expecting to find more. Worrying.

Nay, Amazon. Nay.

I ordered four items for my Xbone X. Quantum Break, with this shown to me.



Noting free Alan Wake and all of the DLC for it. Yay, I loves Alan Wake me, I have completed it all. Game arrives, no Alan Wake, different cover. I leave 1 star feedback saying "Misleading". It gets approved and goes live. This is Prime, but with a different seller. So I then realise that due to my haste in pre ordering the Xbone controller (for my PC) before it even came out I got the poo pants rev 1 version with no headphone/headset socket. I looked for ways of connecting one, but it was £28. FFS £28 !! I then see this for £30.



With 3 months Live Gold free + an extra 3 months Live Gold free. I was dead chuffed. Amazon sent me an email linking me to the free Live, then I get there and it says out of stock. FFS. So I write Amazon a review also, but it gets denied for profanity.



Funny, because I see no profanity there at all. Cheating bastards.

Lesson learned, don't bloody order anything for Xbone on friggin Amazon ! I wouldn't even mind, but my Rare Collection (this)



Said "Order now for delivery tomorrow !" then switches to 28 Jun - 4 July.

GRRRR.

Amazon are getting increasingly dodgy when it comes to who you are actually buying from, and what you are buying, in my experience.
Their amalgamation of reviews can be confusing, I was looking at a new phone on there this morning, and all the reviews for all the models from that manufacturer are all on the same page. Unless you look closely, that can be difficult to tell. As a user, I'd expect to be able to go to amazon, pick a product, the reviews on that page to be for the product I selected, and Amazon to fulfil the order. That only seems to be the case for about 10% of the items I look at these days... It isn't clear who fulfils the order unless you know what you are looking for.

I'm surprised they can get away with it, to be honest.

Just complain complain complain; amazon love giving you free stuff.

Which phone were you looking at, we talk about phones a lot here at work (cause theres nothing to do) so I may've looked into it!

Hmm. Well I just tried the link again (three days after trying it last) and it appears to have worked. It was basically 3 months for £9.99 plus 3 months free (so 6 in total). Already bought a 3 month last night for £11 on CDkeys, so hopefully this 6 months will add onto that.