Aghhh, the **** NHS

OK may seem odd coming from someone who has not personally had anything directly to do with the NHS for 11 years or so, but I have indirectly since I told my parents.

My mum went to her Doctor to find out who she could speak to to help her understand the bombshell I dropped on New Years Eve.  Apparently the doctor tried to be helpful, and did some investigations for her.  The result is what has riled me.

The only thing the NHS will do for my parents is...  Refer them to a sexual health clinic.  To discuss how my news on being transgender has affected them.  *I* wouldn't expect to be sent to a sexual health clinic if I went to the doctor there and said I needed to speak to someone out it, so why on earth should my parents be sent there?  It's insanity...

On top of that, and the real stange one for me.  They won't speak to my parents about how it is affecting them unless I go in person (1600km's away 99% of the year) to give my permission as their feelings are connected to my news.  WTF.  What right do I have to say my parents can't discuss their own feelings.

I just don't get it...  I think I'm going to have to do some searching for them and find a private therapist.

Other than that it was a nice chat again.  We hadn't spoken for a while, and yesterday I just a text from her asking how we were so I gave her a call.

And lied a little...  I've been pretty down the last couple of weeks, but didn't really want to get into it last night.  No doubt we'll talk again soon and we can go over it in more detail.

And...  She's sent me my yearly package of Mini Eggs!  I am totally addicted to these things, but you can't find them over here. Ergo each Easter I get a red cross package full of them :)  They take a while to arrive though - they were posted more than a week ago, and still no sign of them.  I hope the postie hasn't eaten them!

Update: They are located in the far North of Scotland (about 30 miles north of Inverness) - which doesn't help...  (Thanks Chrissie for pointing out that I missed this )

Where is my muse?

After a week of having lots of idea's for this weeks posting here I am on a Friday lunchtime, with the office to myself and my thoughts. And they seem to have abandoned me at the moment - taking with them all vestiges of medium term memory over the postings.

I can't wait to finally get rid of the cold that has been haunting me for the last two weeks now. It's causing me pain, and lots of ikky stuff besides, and is making thinking harder than after drinking a bottle or two of cheap plonk.

The only thing I can remember wanting to do a posting about is a website made by a Dutch guy called pleaserobme.com. Basicalled if you link 4Square and Twitter you have the makings of a home security problem. The problem is that the more I looked into it, the more I am not sure how much of a problem it is - but that could always just be the fogged brain that I have at the moment. So there goes one posting idea... But I thought I'd mention it as those who use Twitter may want to look into it and see if they need to change their habbits (or the amount of personal information that's easily findable online) to protect themselves...

Well then I guess I'll get back to trying to find some nice recipes for this weekend - we've got bored of eating simple food week in and week out and have decided that since I like cooking I have to find something nice to make. So far I have a recipe for leak and cheese ravioli and... Not much else. If anyone has a nice recipe they'd like to share please feel free to share :) I guess I have to dust off my Delia's, Jamie Olivers and Silver Spoon* this weekend and start to come up with some nice menus...

Have a good weekend all,
Stace

* The Silver Spoon is a *real* Italian cookbook, best selling in Italy for 50 years or so. Some of the recipes are not for the meek (and so I haven't tried them yet) but there are some absolute stunners - and it remindes you that there is so much more to Italian food than pasta - which I could eat everyday of the week, but Mrs Stace gets bored with :)

Well here goes...

Well here's the first post - spent an amount of the day making the blog now I just to think what to fill it with...

What can I say apart from what I am going to try to put here... It's going to be mixture I think - technical articles based on what I am working on (both at wrk and at home), random musings about what I'm up to (from techy things to girly things - guess I'm going to have to be clear with the labels for that :) ) and just things that are on my mind...

Hope you get half as much out of reading this as I get writing it :)