That's what I'd figured. In answer to your question, it's the standard Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The rest will have to be booked off, as required.

ION. I finally managed to get through to the doctor's surgery today. They won't tell me the results of the MRI scan, but the doctor wants me to come in and discuss it with him.

There are no appointments until at least the 8th of December and even then I have to phone up at 08:00 and hope for the best.

Apparently they have appointments starting at 07:00 on Wednesdays so I could phone my doctor on Monday and book one for that time... or so the receptionist says.

Flipping useless, the lot of them

Much better than listening to people flaunting their riches afaIk

Ooh, touché or, as the French would say, Ooh, touché

Royal Mail delivering me the shiny Amazon goodness - I'm sat here like a child wishing it was Xmas day

Trying to work out what to buy the better half for Christmas

Resisting the urge to buy a 12 inch tablet - I'm already trying to justify it to myself

The "JJ Memorial Drink-Off" in Oxford next weekend. If anyone is about and fancies coming then let me know and I'll post details. I can't believe he's been gone a year

That new Prince album is 'hit them with the kitchen sink' awful

http://youtu.be/5ueJ4-lTa1s

Bloody song has been on loop for the last two hours all because i heard a snippet on that advert with the blonde who annoys me no frikking end but would still screw one in a million perfume advert heard a snippet on that advert and then i found it on youtube and now i all i can do is hear it in my ears my eyes are funny and i can see but i cant read but i can still type and i wanna dance but i cant because batman doesnt drink maybe i could get my friends and me to dance like that at my wedding reception when i finally get the ring and then i can finally propose and be the man goddamit that superman is such a liar i cant believe it how can he say he doesnt lie when hides his identity sherlock holms didnt hide his identity from the robot mask thing but it will be interesting to see superman face off against robobatman i wanna go sleep now bye

My car. I put a litre of coolant in it last week, as the engine temp light came on. One week later and it's done it again. Put another litre of coolant in it and just phoned the mechanic. I'm dropping her off on Friday evening so he can have a look on Saturday.

I hope it's a small leak, and nothing more serious.

I really need to stay off the internet when I'm tired and dazed. I ended up paying over the odds for one of those John Lewis penguin toys from ebay.

Yes, very droll... lol

ION, I finally managed to get the results of my not so recent MRI scan, and the outcome was... arthritis! Yay! The doctor is writing to the physio people to set me up with an appointment.

At least I now know it's not all in my head lol

I thought it was pretty funny

Good news on the scan JV

Some of my patients would be disappointed that a scan showed only arthritis. Pain caused by simple wear and tear isn't enough for them. They want something exotic. In fact, I have a handful of patients who are hypochondriacs who are always up at the surgery for every twinge, ache, cough etc, convinced they have cancer. A some of them have developed cancer and suddenly they're no longer coming up to the surgery. It's almost as if theyre happyto finally have cancer!