Brexit Revenge, guess I deserved it for being totally over the top last few months, provoking them.
Short thread.
GPs in Germany have very short opening times, typically under 20hrs/week. Last Friday was bragging about no appointment 15-minute wait incl jab, blood test
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Dr had given me paper to get an X-Ray. Monday phoned local radiology unit, Wednesday done. Thursday dropped off X-ray copy at GP & ask when I shd come when full report rec'd. In meantime asked them to review vaccine passport as 8 (non-Covid) vaccines out of date.
Was about
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...to leave when receptionist said go to waiting room, doc would take a look at vaccines now! Enter empty waiting room - GP had been open 15 mins & still for 75 minutes. Waited, lots of activity & voices, & waited & waited...40 mins gone & waited when receptionist..
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..popped head around door "Ooops, forgot you!"
Had sent new arrivals straight into doc's office! Swoosh -2 arms, 2 jabs, 4 vaccines.
ToDo next: Tick. Flu-Nov. Hepatitis? Shingles?-a few cases recently of it causing outbreak!
She thinks I'll be around in 2031 for booster😄
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...So what should have been a 3-minute visit, wasn't even the normal 10-15 minutes but a full 51 minutes. So, yes, Brexiters, not everything in Germany goes to plan or is perfect. But everyone here knows that, just as everyone in EU knows there is much to reform.
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Going to my German village supermarket in next hour. Anyone thinking food shortages and petrol shortages are rampant here too like me to video the empty shelves and petrol station queues? Perhaps Daily Express reader out there?
OK, I'm sure the requests are leg pulling but here you go, own fault.
Village 1700 inhabitants satellite franchise supermarket of national chain Edeka. It's 11am and it closes in 2 hours. The main supermarket is 3km away coming up in another clip
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2. For the supermarket pretty busy so couldn't get to all the fresh fruit eg strawberries. Remember closes in 2 hours so not refilling fresh stuff. Here the dry, frozen, chilled and some of drinks.
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Angela Merkel's beloved thrifty folk in SW Germany also homeland loving & caring.
Farmer with field bordering river & ditches, hand rakes little heaps of hay for must be kilometre or more.
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And then I spotted him, carefully raking each blade of grass. Normally his wife also helps. Mustn't waste anything but beavers (encouraged here) make banks dangerous for machines.
Some may find it strange walking over farmers field but here normal & in constitution.../3
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Property rights here very different. These paths can be used by walkers, bikers, horse riders, skiers like I guess bridleways but no fences unless specifically animals out. Same in all forests. But you must respect land too especially in growing season & stick to paths.../4
Thanks for good wishes earlier. Turned out trainee (older one) as well & OH joined in too as she couldn't ride out. When they called y'day to say coming at 8:30 I replied 8:15 then, lady in office laughed. They come from 100km away & we were last drop off in morning! Germans!
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Wagner been delivering since 2006, pellets c/h since Nov 05. Almost always had 1 of 2 drivers but on hols. This is one of their small 3-axle HGVs. I don't bother to get quote before ordering, I know they will give best price. Drivers even have slippers when entering house!
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6 tonnes =3,000 liters oil, blown in through one hose and air pressure + any dust sucked out in other. Pellets loaded automatically by screw & suction via pipes 1x 2x day into day hopper. Ash tray needs to be emptied about 1x month. No oil stench!
Horses waiting..../4
This was the event held in Nuremberg in the summer for new north Bavarian citizens.
The southern Bavarian reception is held in the wonderful 17th Century Imperial Hall of the 'Residence', the seat of the Dukes then Electors and finally Kings of Bavaria until the monarchy was dissolved in 1918 after they "mislead" the folk into WWI residenz-muenchen.de/englisch/museu…
@UNBiodiversity@IPBES certainly made the headlines in Germany yesterday. Here in Bavaria, the successful petition nicknamed "Save the Bees" is due to become law in a few months. Yesterday evening on dog walk near Ottobeuren saw more evidence of why we need it urgently.
This isn't the local golf course!
I guess the meadows were mown & slurried last week as we have had snow over the weekend & for the most part the weather has been cold & wet since Easter. The major dandelion flower period is not yet over & yet the first silage cut has been made.
Last year, this part of Bavaria was lucky with the drought as we had quite a number of nightly thunderstorms & many of the silage feeding farms managed a bumper crop of between 7 & 8 cuts plus a bumper maize/corn silage harvest.
7x cuts means at least 8x slurry trips.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg is about to publish a book on the Victorian Era & says:
"In these turbulent times, we must understand the past to plan our future as a nation."
I think dear Jacob is not telling the truth. He must have German "Fugger" DNA
Area of Bavaria I live in, Swabia, west of Munich, with Augsburg as it's centre, is full of Fuggers & their legacy. The richest of this family was Jacob Fugger born in 1459 & went on to be the world's richest man EVER. Makes Bill Gates look like a beggar.
Everything in the video points to Jacob Rees-Mogg - devout Roman Catholic, a child (10) businessman, money dealer - learnt his craft not from 1066 & All That but from Jacob Fugger. Both Jacobs had early interests in mining, the UK one, with Lonrho & the devious Tiny Rowland.