Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[ranunculus]

Yes, Joakim, in our libraries you can use the internet - free- also there are CDs DVDs to borrow.... the place is still not as busy as I wish it would be! I wish every library were full of happy people!!

Plenty of room in the world for more happy 'Bookers', eh Maggi?   

[maggiepie]

When I went to have my Swine flu jab, the surgery looked remarkably bare - there were no toys for the kids to play with, and all magazines had been banished.  Apparently Health & Safety at work.

Has anyone else encountered this?

My first thought was - do we close Public Libraries? 

I had an appointment with my skin specialist 2 weeks ago, first thing I noticed when I arrived was the bareness of the waiting room.
All the reading material had gone, even the racks that held them.

[Anthony Darby]

When I went to have my Swine flu jab, the surgery looked remarkably bare - there were no toys for the kids to play with, and all magazines had been banished.  Apparently Health & Safety at work.

Has anyone else encountered this?

I have, but it is a pointless exercise pandering to a group of people called 'Zealots' who are afraid of infection.  Where do you sit? What do you open the doors with?

[Lesley Cox]

Not much point in being afraid of infection at my doc's. There are 8 doc's in the practice so there are often two dozen or more people waiting and at least some must have an infection of some kind, that's liable to be passed along. I always have to wait and always take a book but there are still magazines and toys both in the waiting area and in the doc's room. I think we're all paranoid about infections now, with advertising that 99.9% of germs are killed with this or that cleaner. The human race has withstood every kind of plague and disaster and no doubt will continue to do so.

[Lesley Cox]

Quick note for Maggi. I've thought better of having the rant I was about to let fly with.


Edit by Maggi : ...for which I thank you, Lesley!

[Lesley Cox]

I have to say that our libraries in Dunedin at least are always very well patronized, with queues at the checkouts (there are some self service thingys now as well) and I often have to wait for people to move away before I can access the thrillers. Perhaps we read more? It is a fact apparently, that NZers buy more books, per head of population, than people from any other country. A statistic I'm happy to live with.

[Anthony Darby]

One of my colleagues was at two book launches recently: the completing of the Edinburgh Edition of Scott's Waverley Novels (David Hewitt is his father-in-law) http://www.euppublishing.com/series/eewn?cookieSet=1 and the other night at the launch of "Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook: The No.1 book for African delicacies". Apparently Mopani worms were served at the launch!

[David Nicholson]

........................."Mma Ramotswe's..................

Who??

[Martinr]

........................."Mma Ramotswe's..................

David, where have you been.....she runs the No 1 ladies Detective Agency

[David Nicholson]

I really haven't the faintest clue on this Martin

[Martinr]

A series of books by Alexander McCall Smith, an Edinburgh based author about a traditionally built lady in Botswana who runs a private detective agency. His Edinburgh based books are also humoruous. Worth a read.

[Mick McLoughlin]

Made into a TV series David.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ladies/
Not watched it myself either.

[Anthony Darby]

What a wonderful expression "traditionally built" is.

[David Nicholson]

I did mention this to Mrs N. today who's reponse was "It was on the box, you missed it, but you would have thought it was dreadfull"


Did anyone else watch the few hours of Alan Bennett's stuff on Beeb 2 last night and earlier this evening? I'm told that after a few single malts I do a passable impression of Patricia Routledge in her "Talking Heads"

Sorry to those conditioned to reading only "Moans" here obviously second comment should be on "Happy" thread.

[Lesley Cox]

What a wonderful expression "traditionally built" is.

Maggi and I are traditionally built too.