Good Morning everyone

I do hope things improve very soon, Rikii - sounds like they can't get much worse.

Riki, I do hope things improve soon. You are really going through the mill. I would say "keep your pecker up" but that would be inappropriate at the moment. (Cheesy attempt to make you smile. )

Hi Maris, I felt it went the way a lot of Harris's books do. Started well and went out on the ridiculous. I haven't read all of his books but the ones I have ended stupidly. I sometimes wonder if his wife doesn't say "Come on we're going to Miami next week, get it finished" and he plonks any mind boggling idea into the end. 

I felt the cinematography was good in parts, the oppressive feeling of those horrible marble rooms and dark corridors. Couldn't see why their bedrooms had electric shutters on them - do they really, I doubt it. There were cheap shots e.g. cardinals standing about smoking dropping the fag butts on the ground, scenes of immense amounts of food in kitchens. 

I thought it got over the stress of the whole procedure and I don't know but I presume that was factual. The different personalities vying for position were well drawn. It didn't seem to mention that Lawrence at one point was leading the vote - but I had almost given up and gone to the loo at that point. 

I'm afraid the end was utter tosh. I went straight into previous Obstetrics & Gynaecology mode on it and thought, nah. It doesn't work like that. Either those ovaries and uterus are not working and haven't developed since birth in which case any doctor would tell you to get them removed because they would pose a risk of cancer. This happens and it has no bearing on any other sex organs, just like some women can have two wombs and so on. Modern medicine would say the surgery is imperative. We were supposed to believe that this young man entered a seminary none the wiser because outwardly he looked and functioned like all the other young men, then he had emergency surgery at about 35-45 to remove his appendix where they found the ovaries and uterus - highly unlikely.  Here were two organs that he had no knowledge of but that were working and giving him a genetically female test result. Bollock Maris, utter rubbish. 

Either he had no symptoms because these teen tiny organs had not developed which means he was male and as male as any bloke born with an extra finger on their left hand, or they were working and he'd know something was up before he was 45, because he would get period pain, he would potentially have slight bleeding from his penis and he would probably have developed breasts. 

Harris is very bad like this and deserves a good slap sometimes. Still at least we didn't have to suffer one of his badly written females this time. We are usually given massive stereotypes and very one dimensional characters and women whose behaviour is out of kind from the rest of their gender at that time. Mind you Faulks is very guilty of that too. I did tell Harris this at Edinburgh Festival, when he was talking about his latest book of the time. He gave me a sort of throat strangled laugh and glared at me. 

Overall the end and some of the other cliches spoiled a good film.

Anyway what did you think? 

Just had a few words with the GP. I've waited 8 days for a prescription, he's sending out another this afternoon. His excuse was that their Fax machine wasn't working so had to rely on a van driver to take the scripts around to pharmacies. Then some of the items were out of stock.

I said so that leaves me an ill patient waiting 8 days and more after having my appointment and diagnosis for treatment.

So, I'm waiting to hear from our local pharmacy now, I wouldn't mind betting that will be another couple of days.

Good grief Ron. I do mine online and they send them online to the pharmacy. It would have been quicker for your GP to post them or ask if you had anyone who could collect them. If I have an appt on the phone they just ask which pharmacy I'm registered with and send it online to them. If it's in person you can either have the script then or they send it online to the pharmacy.

I couldn't agree more with you both. The amounts of communications we have these days we shouldn't have to wait long.


Has anyone compared prices of property with The Move market? I was just looking at the prices some of the properties have gone for down our patch recently. It says that our property is the 6th most expensive private dwelling in Nort Wales. Is that good or bad, not sure. But it has quadrupled in value since we bought it.

Hi tickle, in my doctor's yesterday, A&E again today, not too great now.