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Agreed, and of course I know all this. I was cynically commenting on the work to rule. Here in London it's the worst of all, not just for GPs but for all medical staff from student nurses to consultants. With our very high cost of living and the severity of housing problems none of them...

Apparently it means not seeing more than 25 patients a day. Since the recommended time per patient consultation is 5 minutes, that means working for just over 2 hours a day. It also means not working beyond their contracted hours, whatever they are. .

Anti-communist rhetoric against socialism, the bigoted Americans would be proud of you. Of course the Scandinavians are socialist, they personify what socialism is, and it is not communism. .

Indeed, and my postings at the time were almost alone in supporting Corbyn and critical of how blind his critics were. .

Strange that it works so well in the Scandinavian countries. .

Common to so many vehicles now thanks to crash protection legislation, but it may not be as bad as you think. Like most of our e-buses they don't have the huge double rear view mirrors. That little housing in their place contains some of the lenses that give the driver a dashboard view from...

Sadiq Khan is beyond reproach on emissions. Thanks largely to him we have the largest zero emission bus fleet in Western Europe. 60% of our near 9000 bus fleet are zero emission now, what is one diesel Range Rover to that? Only today commencing in service we had a new fleet of 20 advanced...

That made me laugh, remembering a joke a Range Rover owner once told me: What's the difference between a Range Rover and a hedgehog? With a Range Rover the pricks are on the inside. .

On the contrary it used to work extremely well. I grew up in that era with Off Licences, strange adult only shops which I and other youngsters would never attempt to enter. Which was brilliant since it delayed the age entry into alcohol and a major reason why we had also little drunkeness...

Too far to drive and beyond shop delivery, I'm on the outer edge of London and the best outlets are more central like Borough Market. Being single limits the other options like buying big and I prefer buying and cooking fresh. Deliveroo etc fetch items from supermarkets and Waitrose here...

I also use Sainsburys, in fact I've been doing my shop this morning before that earlier posting. First Sainsburys for the items they are ok for, then I drove on to Waitrose for the rest. Thats my typical pattern and the best I can do here. I won't use the cut price crowd like Lidl, Aldi and...

Agreed, but how long would it take me to get to the few outlets that still exist? Great for those living in easy reach of Borough Market for example, but for me that could take at least an hour of driving aggro each way, not to mention the parking impossibility, and then only for a few of...

I'm not shopping wrong, I just don't have those outlets any more. My butcher and fishmonger don't exist now. The shop from from which Mr. Nash and his son Geoff departed in the very early hours each morning to drive to the old Covent Garden no longer exists, even the old Covent Garden has...

I very strongly disagree, I hate all the supermarkets with a passion. Jaded vegetables often a week old before they even reach the shelf. So called ripe and ready fruit as hard as cricket balls, due to being picked so early they haven't developed the enzymes that enable them to ripen...

As a lifetime single and keen cook, agreed, but it comes down to being interested in cooking and eating well. Too many think cooking a chore and avoid it. .

One problem is that so many of the Brtish dont cook well. They watch other people cooking well on TV and then eat a ready meal or phone Deliveroo or Just Eat. It's notable that the three of us posting who are clearly keen cooks have continental family connections. .

It's not just greed for profit being criticised, it's greed for the lowest prices in their desperate competition that results in starving the producers, like farmers, particularly the smaller ones. And all the manufactured food produced by a handful of giant multinationals who take too big a...

We are half way there already! .

Trouble with a healthy lifestyle is that one just gets older before getting the same major problems. I lived a very healthy lifestyle until 2007 almost entirely free of health problems, but then had a heart attack at 70 due to an inherited condition from my mother. I got through that ok with...

Having had the experience of living through WW2 and the consequent rationing and shortages, I have always had large reserves of stored food at home. I've also got plenty of emergency lighting, cooking and heating equipment. I'm still amused about the reaction of neighbours when we suffered...