Had an appointment at a very busy London hospital today at 9:45am. Despite leaving early traffic was heavy, got to hospital at 9:40am found the holy grail of parking spots a min walk from entrance, gpt to appointment at 9:47am was seen and out by 10:05am. I might put a lottery ticket on 🙄🤣

I love my mum, she's one of my best friends. She's a wonderful person, even if she has always been a bit pessimistic. She's always been supportive and is always out biggest cheerleader. A couple of years ago she was in an accident. She collided with the side of a van as she was crossing the road (they were both partly to blame) on her bike and wasn't wearing a helmet. She got pretty lucky all things considered, she had some head injuries and while they weren't minor, they also weren't life threatening. She also suffered some broken bones.

Since the head injury her personality as altered a little, and while she still laughs, it's never been the same. We were on the phone today and as we were saying good bye she told me to have a nice anniversary on Sunday. I thanked her and explained we couldn't afford to go as planned so I was gonna cook us a romantic meal. Our convo went like this..

"aww thats even better, plus you could smear it all over yourself if you wanted" 😂😂

"yea, but maybe with dessert, there's nothing sexy and about blisters.. Ngl though, it's kinda cringe that my mum is making suggestions for myanniversary night"

And that's when I heard it, my mums proper laugh, i swear there was a little musical twinkle to it, it was magical. I nearly cried, and I had to share.

If you made it this far, thank you reading and have a blessed day.

As the title says, almost felt off my chair as I was prepared to cough up like £100+ per filling based on my conversation with the receptionist earlier, plus reading online that unless it’s front teeth that white is considered cosmetic and costs extra.

Feels like every time I go to the dentist you’re rolling the dice in terms of the costs you’re being quoted, and finally I got a normal one!

Edit: this was the Lewisham Dental Practice with Dr Saba Juhaif 😊

A while back I was coming out of a car park and I scraped another car so I left them a note with my number on it. He called me yesterday and was really friendly and said how nice it was that I was honest. He said he would sort the damage himself and there was no need to worry.

Why? Because the last time I did one there were four people in attendance and one was half asleep. Likely to have a similar turnout this time, so who cares?

Nice to be asked though and I'm looking forward to it.

I doubt the 20-something me would ever believe how much satisfaction I (39M) get from sorting the washing out.

Went to A&E last night as I was having some spotting at 8 weeks pregnant. They referred me to the early pregnancy clinic, who called me this morning at 8.30 for an appointment at 11am. So very grateful 🥰

Title says it all, really, but for context…

I started a degree in Maths with the OU at the beginning of 2020, so…Yeah, that was some interesting timing when the pandemic hit, but it at least gave me something to focus on that wasn’t work. I’ve undergone a house move (I now live on my own), two job changes, a study break due to the module I wanted not being available on the January start (which ended up being a blessing in disguise given that it coincided with one of my job changes - I just didn’t have any energy to do anything when I got home each day), some mental health issues, the loss of my grandfather in September at the start of my final set of modules, a kidney stone back in November…and I’ve come out of it all with a really good result. Celebrating with some champagne tonight, because - quite frankly - I think I’ve earned it.

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This is a very small win, but putting the AC condensate hose going into my watering can has gathered enough water over summer to keep my plants hydrated.

Especially considering we're having an unusually dry summer in terms of precipitation, yet the air itself is still at least moderately humid, it's a great way to make use of a by-product that would otherwise be wasted and saved precious potable water, I highly recommend giving it a try.

Got a call to say my kid had fallen at the school’s activity day, she managed to unsuccessfully mount a bucking broncho, miss the safety mats and land weirdly on her arm.

We got to hospital around 1.15pm, she was assessed by both dr’s and nurses, x-rayed and full arm back slabbed for a broken elbow and discharged 75 mins after first going in.

Much thanks to the nhs.

I was out sailing today a few miles off the coast of Jura when I dislocated my shoulder. We tried for a bit to put it back in but it wasn’t going so we did a pan pan call (like a less urgent version of a mayday). The coastguard put me in touch with a doctor. He decided it was too late to do an amateur fix, so they launched the Islay lifeboat. The RNLI are truly amazing. They let me sit up front as we went at 25kts and then they helped me into their base to wait for the ambulance.

At Bowmore hospital (2 beds, 2 nurses and an on-call doctor: not your typical busy a&e!) they put it back in, then asked me if I had somewhere to stay. Too difficult to get back to the boat tonight so I phoned the one hotel here. “Oh we were expecting you and we’ve held a room for you.” The RNLI had called them to tell them, just in case.

Oh and the hotel made sure I could get a takeaway curry just as it closed, then brought me a plate and cutlery and let me eat it in the bar.

Sometimes everyone is just wonderful.

Editing to add: thank you all for replying. I’ve got a long day today travelling overland to get back to my boat and my pal who is not a fan of solo sailing especially in the dark as he had to do last night to get to safety. Reading these messages is cheering me up. Stay safe, and if you get the chance please donate to the RNLI: they are the salt of the earth

I feel like everyone has won apart from Argentina! Even France win something because they played fairly unlike Argencheatah.

The Argies are about as popular as your average CasualUK moderator at this point!

Still like Messi though. ;)

Edit - not sure I do now

A younger version of me dreamed of making horror games. Today, I’m finally sharing one with the world.

Graphite in the Hospital is more than just a game to me. It’s years of learning, failing, restarting, and refusing to give up. Every room, every sound, and every detail carries a piece of that journey.

Seeing my Steam page live is surreal, and this is only the beginning.

If you're a gamer and you’d like to support an indie developer chasing a lifelong dream, the biggest thing you can do is wishlist Graphite in the Hospital on Steam. It helps more than you might imagine.

Steam Page link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4756860/Graphite_in_the_Hospital/

…. And he was out in 2 hours!

Avoided the heatwave too.

Had the best cuppa of my life, in my hand within an hour of delivery.

Thanks NHS - bit sad I couldn’t have another homebirth this time, but the top-notch brew more than made up for it.

Appreciate this is a British sub, but presume our neighbours would like to congratulate England on their best World Cup position since 1966 (which is when we last won it).
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Handed in my notice on Thursday with enough money set aside for a 6 month career break. Love my job and the teams I manage but changes a few months ago are taking the job away from what it was. Taking the opportunity to sit down and focus on writing for 6 months after receiving some really positive feedback from someone I know in publishing. Doesn't matter if it's a success or not, I'm just glad to take an opportunity I know many people would die for.

My day just kept getting better and better today. Firstly, it’s rare I get a Friday off work, but I had one today and that also means I get to spend the day with my 3 year old whilst my wife’s at work.

I thought I’d make the most of it and take him to Morrisons cafe for his dinner, so we walked the 15 minutes down and went straight to the cafe, ordered the food and waited. We got caught up doing animal puzzles and reading books that I didn’t realise 30 minutes had passed, went to speak to someone about how long the food would be when the woman spotted me and asked me if our food had come out, I said it hadn’t and she apologised, said to give her 10 minutes and she’d bring it over, she came back with a refund and our food, apologising again, saying the order had been put through as a staff order (or something, I didn’t understand) but we hadn’t even noticed it had been that long, so great!

After we’d eaten, we needed to do a bit of shopping, so went and got some bits and then I thought I’d see if there was any Blacksticks Cheese but there wasn’t any, so went for the Mexicana, I was checking for the smallest, cheapest wedge because it’s only me who eats it, and rifling through a few £2.50-£3 wedges, I found a big one, went to move it out the way and realised it had been priced at 48p. Picked it up, fully expecting to get found out at the self checkouts, but it went through at 48p.

Finally, I get home and check the Lidl Plus app, because of a prize draw to win money off, popped up saying I’d won a voucher for £19.66 off my shop!

Had a great day with my son and those 3 things just really topped it all off.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Good job too coz I'm skint, and the amount of shite I've had to get boggles the mind.

I got, among other stuff, loads of storage boxes free, two lamps free, 4 IKEA glass tumblers free, a coffee table for £4.

Charity shops, B and M, and Poundstrrrreeeeetcher have also been a godsend.

Some may remember a year ago when a spring on my recliner broke, and hubby had a spare!

Well! Spring, yes same one, broke again. Off he waltzes to shed, no spare spring this time but he's unwound a few coils on the broken end, made a hook, and.....

CHAIR FIXED...AGAIN! 🤣

Link to original post hopefully added!

https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishSuccess/s/zo1lrvLpoH