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I've lost count of my moves.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've lost count of my moves."Good thing you're not playing chess then.
I'm more a twiddly winks kinda gal.
I absolutely love my job but I came home tonight and had a bit of a breakdown. This weekend I'm on one of our 'End of Life' vehicles which is aiming to get people home from hospitals or into hospices etc. These calls are always emotionally draining but the last one today was worse than normal as the patient deteriorated very suddenly and his chances of living much longer aren't good at all. I don't know how on earth nurses and palliative care staff do it, I really don't. Came home and had a good cry and then a friend rang to check on me and we talked it through. Feel a lot better now but still drained, bought a lot of chocolate in tescos on my way home!
Well done Claire. Doing your job when it's needed most.Have a big hug, you deserve it.
Oh sweetheart. You deserve many big hugs. I don't know how people (Emz) do it either.When I worked in the nursing home, I found encounters with the families the hardest.
I hope you've had a good rest and you find something joyful today. Xx
I don't know how they do either but I'm glad they make the effort because it's the time when decent people are most needed so thanks for doing it
A hug to you Claire. The support of people like you makes all the difference at awful times
Big hug Claire, it must be harrowing at times. Don't bottle it up, talk to colleagues and us here. You're doing a very worthwhile job and the patients appreciate your care.
Big hugs to you Em, fantastic thing to do for people, just so hard to do
Thanks everyone, feeling better this morning.
Oh Clair have a huge (((((((((((((((((((((HUG))))))))))))) from me too
Keep at it, Claire. It's because it affects you that we need people like you doing it. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be so valuable - to us all.
Thank you Pat and Kath. Feeling lots better tonight.
Big hugs Claire! You have an extraordinary job and you are an amazing person, it's totally understandable that it gets to you from time to time. I'm glad you have good friends to support you when it does.
Just an update guys, the official receiver has just announced the closure of the coke ovens, no last minute reprieve for the steelworks. :-(
eastwood (do you feel lucky punk,well do ya) wrote: "Just an update guys, the official receiver has just announced the closure of the coke ovens, no last minute reprieve for the steelworks. :-("Sorry to hear that - must be a massve blow to the town.
Indeed it will be remember it last time, but this time it's for keeps, 170 years of steelmaking gone because the government won't step in, doesn't make sense.
Shades of the Welsh valleys. :(
The problem was the the steelworks was owned by a Thai company and there was guarantee that if the money had paid the money for it, that the money wouldn't have gone straight to Thailand.It's a sad day for the area.
No dispute about that, but there was other ways to keep the place open till a new buyer was found, but that has gone now.
Thinking of all of you affected by it
The ironic thing is they are all coming to our college this week for retraining and job fairs. Good for us shit for them.
We had that with the defence cuts.The yard went from employing over 12,000 people to under 4000.
Which is a lot in a town with a population of under 60,000
Strangely enough the only time it made the media was that this was the 'peace dividend' and wasn't it wonderful :-(
I had a spell where everybody I knew was at uni, then I had a spell where everybody I knew worked in the Yard, then I had a spell where everybody I knew was at college. They were all doing IT skills and learning how to build websites.
To the best of my knowledge none of them has ever earned a penny building websites since then, although some have got jobs because they're computer literate
No the government are ploughing in 80 million for the fall out of it why didn't they put it into keeping the furnace alive and save jobs instead.there are no jobs in redcar other than the steel industry, the shipyards were closed in the eighties through the tories yet again.
The problem is we cannot produce steel at the world market price. The market is awash with the stuff and most countries in the world can make it as well as we can.Even if the government kept the steelworks open, what do we do with the stuff?
We had this same problem round here. Workington was big in steel, Barrow was at one time a leading world producer. In our case the ships weren't being built and the steel wasn't wanted and other people made railway lines as cheaply as we could, so our steelworks closed
Sorry to here that the steelworks is definitely closing. Had hoped someone would step in and that they'd get a last minute reprieve. All that knowledge and experience now going to waste.Hope by some miracle that the area will recover. Feel sorry for all those in Redcar.
Claire you are an amazing lady, keep doing what you do, we are all full of gratitude and love for you !Eastwood, I am so sorry ! I can't understand why they couldn't put money into keeping them open. Now I know I don't know much about this sort of thing but it strikes me if we stopped buying steel, milk, and other things like that from other country's we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
Thugs are not good where Roy works but it's not such a problem for us as he is only 12 months before he wanted to get out, he has already said he will go rather than let any of the younger guys who have families.
I can't imagine what your friends are going through, not much I know but I really am thinking of them and their families.
Jim wrote: "The problem is we cannot produce steel at the world market price. The market is awash with the stuff and most countries in the world can make it as well as we can.Even if the government kept the s..."
The same thing happened around here back in the 1980s. What was once a steelworks is now a shopping mall.
I remember working in Wednesbury during the late 70's. The standing joke was that the birds flew backwards to keep the crap out of their eyes. Everything was grey, the grass, cars, buildings.Went back in the 80's and everything was clean, the grass was green and the metalbashers had turned into the Merry Hall Centre, the first out of town shopping mall.
Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "the Merry Hall Centre, the first out of town shopping mall."That's the very place.
The steel works that was there before it, I used to work just down the road from it.
It seemed that almost every day the steelworks' ambulance would come speeding past - lights flashing and sirens on.
David wrote: "Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "the Merry Hall Centre, the first out of town shopping mall."That's the very place.
The steel works that was there before it, I used to work ju..."
Sorry, it's Merry Hill, not Hall, mea culpa. There used to be a little cafe along the road, vewry old fashioned and I used to go there for a proper cooked lunch. Very traditional food, like you'd arrived home at lunchtime. I used to work at the Tandy Head Office just up the road.
I can vaguely remember the Tandy place, but not the Cafe.
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You went out the front door and down to the main road, turn right and it was about 200 yards down the road on the same side at the first junction.You couldn't see it from the road if you were driving.
Nope, can't visualise it. It has changed a lot around there since those days.
Probably demolished years ago, David.
Claire, you do a really amazing job and I'm sure the folks you work with appreciate it. Have you tried CBT, it's brilliant for helping you deal with stuff like that without losing your compassion. On the steel works front. I sympathise with anyone who is struggling to find work. It can be so hard, and often, when you do, your thousands worse off than you would be on benefits. Really hard.
And if anyone wants to give me a hug too, I could really do with one. All my big bills crop up in September but this time, with the computer breaking too, I've managed to run up a credit card bill of £1,500. And I haven't done the yearly car service yet.
I went to see my folks on Wednesday. I go quite often. They're alright, but they just need to see me. So I go. For some reason, this week, their plight made me very sad. I had to play a lot of loud music on the drive home and sing at the top of my voice or there'd have been tears. McOther has bailed me out twice and each time, something horrendous has happened. I can't ask him again.
One of my nephews has a horrible thing called Linear Morphea. Basically, he's 6 and a half and he's got to take chemo drugs for two years. And if it works he'll be fine and if it doesn't he'll be quadraplegic. And of all four cousins on my side of the house, he's the sporty one. It's just grim.
Also, my professional life has pretty much tanked. I've another book coming out in November, and I'm just coming to the end of yet another 'final' (and I hope it bloody will be, this time) edit of the K'Barthan Series and then unless something happens when I've published this one, I will just have to stop publishing any more books, or look for a trad deal - an idea which fills me with dread.
It's probably for the best as no bugger is buying them anyway. I can't even give the sodding things away.
A while back I found a way of optimising my free book's amazon entry so that people looking for my type of books will find them and it worked for three or four months until other people who are better at it than me cottoned on. I had a look at humorous sci fi on Amazon just now. My book used to be number six it's now not listed.
Now, 6 out of the top ten best selling humorous science fiction books are ripped ab style nookie books about shagging millionaires, shape changers and the like. I have nothing against nookie books but nookie writers tend to write more books faster than other authors, so they sell more, so if they list their books in non nookie sections the way the algorithms are weighted mean you end up with pages and pages of nookie books before you get anything that actually fits there... I swear if you put DIY books into Amazon you'd get a top ten of wall to wall ripped abs and nookie books.
It makes it difficult to work out what's trending (apart from nookie books) and difficult to find books to read for myself that are just stories about stuff with a bit of romance maybe but... not nookie.
I have also spent 7 days in a phone loop with BT, reporting a fault, getting to the point where they say it's our wireless modem and ask the manager if they can send one out and then the manager says no and I have to observe it for 24 hours and wait for BT to ring and go through the whole rigmarole again. Basically, their customer service technique seems to be to wear you down until you just can't be arsed to complain any more and stop. It is making doing all the book launch stuff interesting though... I love filling in online forms again and again.
So professionally, all is shit, personally things are good but bitter, bitter sweet and financially I'm in utter doo doo.
Could really do with a hug.
This is the end of the Vent for the Bury St Edmunds jury.
Ho hum...
Cheers
MTM
Here Mary have a huge hug xxFunny how life likes to dump lots of things at one time and each one feels like another hefty kick in the teeth. I find getting out in the fresh air helps - and look at your smashing wee boy. I'm sure he can just about always cheer you up. Get a big hug from him too
I think you need this!
Huge hug, Mary.Huge, huge hug.
Huge hug, Mary.Huge, huge hug.
Huge cuddles, and have some little Kitty cuddles too
Group hug for Mary. Life's a pisser - and then you die. I'm not helping, am I? X
Huge hug Mary, so sorry you're having a hard time. Anything I can do to help with the computer? Or BT, or both?
Hugs to you MT, hope things seem better soon x
Big hugs Mary. Hope things start looking up.I will have a look at that, I hadn't heard of it used for that sort of thing, thank you.
There was a viewing on my old flat today, fingers crossed they liked it.