Minnie’s Musings
Random ramblings of a middle aged, middle class, middle income woman
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To make one feel much better. Stinging complaint has now been delivered. Once on the feedback form – and yes I was happy to share my thoughts with the public (but they won’t be) – who may or may decide to share them with the wider public – and once on an official complaint form.…
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Some 60 years ago my aunt Judy wrote a paper on bedside manner. Or lack there of. This was before my mother was subjected to a gynaecologist who shepherded his posse of trainee doctors to stand in a circle around her bed and announced to his acolytes, “Ah yes, Mrs Bradley here is a chronic…
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I am not sitting on the dock of the bay. I am sitting on a rubber chair in a day ward awaiting my slot to half the carpal tunnel on my right hand released. This is the snazzy private hospital round the back of the NHS edifice where procedures are farmed out to in the…
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Is snoring loudly but not digging her claws in. You win some, you lose some. Of course she is also leaving hairs on my lap as she snoozes, so I will have to use yet more sheets of my roll poly to get them back off my black trousers. This is annoying. But I must…
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Many moons ago BB and I stopped for a cup of hot chocolate in a cafe near Notre Dame. I was about 7 months pregnant so needed to sit down. The presence of one’s derrière on a not particularly comfortable wooden spindle chair at table with chequered red and white table cloth appeared to warrant…
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With all this talk of peace in Palestine (alliteration there…) and awarding DT the NPP, I can’t be the only one thinking “Hang on a sec, this is a ceasefire. It’s fragile. It can break down anytime.” Yes there is a glimmer of hope. Yes, people are entitled to feel joy. And one doesn’t want…
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Many moons ago we went to tribunal to force the county council into funding a place for our son at a local special school. Said placement was expensive but not eye watering. County argued that our soon needed to go to the local MLD school, arguing that the provision matched his needs. Unfortunately for county…
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Since when – I ask you – were there weight restrictions on baggage for trains? Not on British Rail I can tell you that. Not on EuroStar, I can also tell you that. But on ViaRail Canada they are as strict as Ryan Air (straight after they have reduced the size of carry on baggage,…
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It did indeed. But not in Montreal. Back in Blighty. Yesterday, to be exact. On day two in Montreal, we decided to take a hike up Mount Royal. This involved packing up and traipsing up to the mainline station to find left luggage. Montreal has a whole subterranean city so citizens can move about freely…
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Montreal is a delightful, modern city with lots of skyscrapers downtown and a decidedly cosmopolitan vibe. We stayed in an aparthotel with a washing machine (hurrah). We got there late and every shop and restaurant we tried was shutting up shop for the night. Pizza it was and jolly nice it was too. Then we…
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