Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[colacubes]

IIRC his wife is the pharmacist, you could always give him your best wishes through her. Perhaps a card inscribed 'I miss your bedside manner, love Sexy'.

Lol

 

[quimcunx]

IIRC his wife is the pharmacist, you could always give him your best wishes through her. Perhaps a card inscribed 'I miss your bedside manner, love Sexy'.

Perhaps not.

 

[teuchter]

Anyway can heartily recommend all the doctors and receptionists at Stockwell Group Practice one even bought me chocolates last year!

I can heartily recommend the guy on reception there. He always recognises me and knows my name, even remembers who I am when I phone up. Perhaps all patients get this treatment, or perhaps I'm special, who knows.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Maybe but when he first disappeared the practice manager said something weird to me about why. Along the lines of ''He's on sabbatical. I'm sure I don't have to say any more''.

Hmm. I hope he isn't ill. He was lovely. But equally I hope it wasn't something dodgy.

I've heard of doctors going on sabbaticals. I think it's another way of saying he's pissed off for a while whilst we renegotiate his contract and pay him loads more dosh

I'm probably wrong though

 

[miss minnie]

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[nagapie]

I really like DC. A doctor who is both grumpy and smokes, what more could you ask for.First BHW aren't friendly enough and now DC. He was kind when it counted. Maureen was fine too. The practice manager is extremely nice, but I'd be ok if she wasn't.

 

[Orang Utan]

i like the reception staff. i wouldn't want to do their jobs.
i don't have a problem with any of the doctors and the nurse was ace with my jabs, even giving me a few destination tips for india

 

[colacubes]

i like the reception staff. i wouldn't want to do their jobs.
i don't have a problem with any of the doctors and the nurse was ace with my jabs, even giving me a few destination tips for india

I like the practice cos they're the only doctors who've never bollocked me for being fat and smoking

The reception staff are all good. Having worked as a temp receptionist at a GPs in Bermondsey I think they do such a hard job. It was the only job I've ever worked in where I was regularly threatened with violence. After 4 weeks I refused to go back.

 

[Pip]

I do like a doctor who drinks and smokes, this I can't deny, but me and him just weren't meant to be. I can elucidate in a PM if you want.

Don't have a problem with BWF though

 

[nagapie]

Not necessary. One never gets to see him anymore anyway as he's either off on leave or booked up. I find it hard having to deal with different doctors all the time.

 

[Pat24]

Just came back from Brixton Rd and there were lots of police and an ambulance outside Sainsbury's and the outside area was cordoned off. Someone was taken out from Sainsbury's on a stretcher.

I hope no one is seriously hurt!

 

[Mrs Redboots]

I haven't seen a doctor for years - I got so fed up of not getting an appointment until I was either better or dead, and then having to trail all the way up to Tommy's for a blood test before they'd give me any medicine - if I felt well enough to do that, I'd scarcely be bothering the doctor, would I? Maureen was always charming in the old Dr Smith days, though - she used to tease me about my knitting and my fear of being jabbed with needles.... I do still miss Dr Smith!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just came back from Brixton Rd and there were lots of police and an ambulance outside Sainsbury's and the outside area was cordoned off. Someone was taken out from Sainsbury's on a stretcher.

I hope no one is seriously hurt!

Yep, I've just been past and the police were putting up police tape. Further on, between H&M and Kenfucky, undercover police were frisking young lads

 

[quimcunx]

I haven't seen a doctor for years - I got so fed up of not getting an appointment until I was either better or dead, and then having to trail all the way up to Tommy's for a blood test before they'd give me any medicine - if I felt well enough to do that, I'd scarcely be bothering the doctor, would I? Maureen was always charming in the old Dr Smith days, though - she used to tease me about my knitting and my fear of being jabbed with needles.... I do still miss Dr Smith!

And I miss the days of just turning up. As long as you were there by 6pm you would be seen. Going to the docs when you're actually ill! Not 2 weeks later. Imagine.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

And I miss the days of just turning up. As long as you were there by 6pm you would be seen. Going to the docs when you're actually ill! Not 2 weeks later. Imagine.

When that Sainsburys sliding door attacked my head, I went to my docs and after looking at my symptoms that I had to write down, told me to come back tomorrow. I may have been dead tomorrow and if I wasn't, then I probably didn't have anything wrong with me, so I don't know why they bothered telling me to return

 

[boohoo]

still cordoned off in sainsburys - is this the new place to have fights?

 

[nick h.]

One of the officers outside told me one person had been stabbed and was in hospital but would be OK.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

One of the officers outside told me one person had been stabbed and was in hospital but would be OK.

Figured it must have been something like that for the police to tape it off and be frisking lads further up the road

 

[story]

The People's Weatherman has closed.

 

[miss minnie]

The People's Weatherman has closed.

That's a shame, seems like its been there forever. Did it use to be at a slightly different location way back when (80's?) or am I imagining it?

 

[peterkro]

I think it was on the other side of the road,next door to Wholefoods when it was on that side.

 

[teuchter]

 

[teuchter]

The signs are already down from the Weatherman Store

A couple of doors down, a nw mural is being painted on the shutters of Brixton Wholefoods at the moment.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

ah, that store that I discovered after I'd trawled around Oxford Street looking for a hat because nobody told me I could get one in Brixton

 

[snowy_again]

Someone's doing building work to the inside of the shuttered up HomeLook

 

[nick h.]

On the subject of hats in Brixton there's always Brixton Hats. I got one for Christmas. But they're based in California. http://www.brixton.com/brixton-products/brixton-mens/brixton-mens-hats.html

 

[editor]

The car park is slowly coming down...

 

[lordnoise]

Those helicoptor plane trees on Windrush Square, the ones that line up along the edge of Effra Road: are they dead, do you think?

When they were delivered last year, they spent a long time out of the ground and I was worried about them then, but they seemed to flourish over the summer. But this autumn the leaves didn't change from green to brown. A healthy tree will withdraw the chlorophyll before later dropping the leaves.

Darling buds of January on them as I passed this afternoon ...

 

[ajdown]

Anyone been to the new "Green Market Centre" next to the Telegraph up the hill where DDM used to be? A strange little shop that seems to be a combination between a second hand shop and cafe (well it sells coffee anyway) but they seem to have all sorts from obscure computer bits to an industrial food mixer for £550 and a curious amount of sinks.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone been to the new "Green Market Centre" next to the Telegraph up the hill where DDM used to be? A strange little shop that seems to be a combination between a second hand shop and cafe (well it sells coffee anyway) but they seem to have all sorts from obscure computer bits to an industrial food mixer for £550 and a curious amount of sinks.

No, not yet. I noticed them setting up though and wondered exactly what it's going to be. Wonder what you call a shop that sells sinks and serves tea?