This morning I did my third ONS living survey over the phone, as they check to see how we feel and answer various questions about life.
Overall very pleasant and hopefully useful for the future years of living in England.
Month: February 2023
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Week 154 – February 20th – Blood pressure check
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Week 152 – February 11th – Biggin Hill – Part 4
Final pictures from today’s visit.
A new hotel is being built for the airport. Should be open this spring.
Looking across to the new hotel “The Landing” at Biggin Hill airport Just opposite the café and new hotel, is a formula 1 technology centre.
Somewhere around the airport is meant to be home to Bernie Ecclestone car museum, but you’re not allowed in.
The Formula 1 media and Technology centre. -
Week 152 – February 11th – Biggin Hill – Part 3
Private jet landing at the airport. 
This is so true and we are so grateful too. As you drive into the parking area for the café, there is a small garden that has been created to remember all those that served and saved our country and Europe in the Second World War.
Thank you. Some people are very clever in how this statue was made. -
Week 152 – February 11th – Biggin Hill – Part 2
Several private jets at the far end of the airport. 
Small plane just taken off from Biggin Hill, you can see it was a murky cloudy day today. 
These planes are used by people learning to fly. -
Week 152 – February 11th – Biggin Hill – Part 1
Whilst we were out, we decided to go to Biggin Hill for a bit of lunch.
Took some pictures whilst there.
Private jet moving to take off. 
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Week 152 – February 11th – Nextdoor
I use a website called Nextdoor, very useful for finding out things going on local, as well as useful tips and finding local trade people.
Yesterday when I used the site, every time I clicked on the comments, to see all the comments, nothing expanded, even on ones that had worked the previous day.
I must admit they don’t make it easy to report something, as I had to search around to find out our too contact them. Why do companies do this?
Finally I did. They responded, saying that they would look into it, and overnight, I got a response, saying it was resolved.
Which it was, so good quick turnaround, as it was making the website pointless.
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Week 152 – February 8th – Urgent blood test
This afternoon I get a phone call from the doctors, saying I need to have an urgent blood test done at the hospital as my potassium was showing a reading of 6, which is high. This was from the blood test I had done on the 7th February.
They said go to the hospital now and say it’s for an urgent blood test.
I get to the hospital and there is nowhere to park, this is due to some work going on in the car park, I drive around, but can’t find spaces in any other car park, so find a side road to park in and walk to the blood test centre.
There I get told, that I need a form for the blood test, which the doctor never said, so I go back to the car and drive to the surgery, yes there was a form there with urgent on it. Why didn’t they say?
So I go back, park in the same road, which was wise as the car park still full, and was allowed in.
The person who took my blood, actually took it out of my right hand, never had it done like that before, as they said the vein was good. Again I didn’t feel anything.
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Week 152 – February 7th – ECB coaching
Today I received confirmation that my ECB coaching membership had been confirmed for another year.
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Week 152 – February 7th – Blood test
This morning I had my blood tests done at the surgery to find out why my blood pressure is high.
As usual they say sharp scratch, but I never felt anything. I’m not the greatest with needles.
Just wait now to see what the results are.
