Rusty Nails
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I pay for Apple TV for one month every year or so to binge watch the latest series of Slow Horses. Love the books and the series is almost as good imo.
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I pay for Apple TV for one month every year or so to binge watch the latest series of Slow Horses. Love the books and the series is almost as good imo.
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briantrumpet
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My baker separates the rolls.
Incidentally, UK ophthalmic opticians are qualified and encouraged to spot diseases of the eye as well as comment on things they spot that imply other health conditions. Opticians in France aren't and will only sell glasses. I discovered this when I noticed symptoms of what I discovered was posterior vitreous detachment that started on a walk in France – I described the symptoms to a highly experienced optician friend, and she said if I were in England she'd recommend going to see an optician within 24 hours to get it checked out, but not to bother with an optician in France, as they wouldn't be able to diagnose it at all, so the only option would be an eye hospital. (In fact, she gave me instructions on what to watch out for for any deterioration, but that I'd probably be OK to wait the week before I was coming back to the UK anyway).
icowden
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Kindle Unlimited can be quite good - depends on what you want to read. I also download epubs of books I already own physical copies of and send those to my Kindle account (I refuse to buy the books again when I already have a full collection - e.g. my Discworld collection including at least 2 signed copies - I have paid my dues)
icowden
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Even in England they are hit and miss. They missed my daughter's Type 1 Diabetes even though they couldn't work out what her prescription was accurately given that her eyesight kept changing.
First Aspect
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Explains thst there was a change in terminology in the 80s and 90s, thst still hasn't really stuck colloquially.
I had personally learnt to talk by the 80s, and first heard the term optometrist in the 90s in North America. Where colloqually they also dont distunguish, and rarely or never use the term "optician". So "optimetrist" sounds alien to my ears.
Explains thst there was a change in terminology in the 80s and 90s, thst still hasn't really stuck colloquially.
I had personally learnt to talk by the 80s, and first heard the term optometrist in the 90s in North America. Where colloqually they also dont distunguish, and rarely or never use the term "optician". So "optimetrist" sounds alien to my ears.
Ian H
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A friend who knows (he's a member of the City of London Spectacle Makers' Guild, and has freedom of the City) recommended an optician. He also advised avoiding the usual chains as they mostly have newly qualified, inexperienced staff.
Rusty Nails
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Most people in the UK who want glasses or eyes testing go to the optician's and don't differentiate between the opthalmic or dispensing optician (in small practices they are often the same person) and don't really care...in the same way as they go to the butchers and don't expect to see the animals slaughtered there. It doesn't really matter outside the profession.
Our optician spotted some change to my then 19 year old son's eyesight that just didn't sit right with him. He referred my son urgently to a private opthalmic consultant and it was eventually discovered it was caused by cancerous tumours that were destroying his optic nerves. He is now partially sighted but it could have been much worse if a problem hadn't been spotted and acted on by the man he still refers to as his optician.
Our optician spotted some change to my then 19 year old son's eyesight that just didn't sit right with him. He referred my son urgently to a private opthalmic consultant and it was eventually discovered it was caused by cancerous tumours that were destroying his optic nerves. He is now partially sighted but it could have been much worse if a problem hadn't been spotted and acted on by the man he still refers to as his optician.
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briantrumpet
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It was credit to my GP at the time that they spotted the 'cats paw fundus' on my retina (just pigment that looks like a cat has walked across one's retina), which my optician friend photographed about 42 years ago.... I've no idea what happened to the 35mm slides of it she sent me.
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briantrumpet
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Apologies to @PurplePenguin that this has Dan Neidle in the chain, but his post brought to my attention a crazy judgement (either the judgement is wrong, or the law is) that the Solicitors' Regulation Authority can't view allegedly legally errant advice/action in SLAPP lawsuits, and therefore would not be able to regulate solicitors in such cases.
No surprise that Carter-Ruck is the instigator of this.
https://bsky.app/profile/legalclaret.bsky.social/post/3mw246ztors2x
No surprise that Carter-Ruck is the instigator of this.
https://bsky.app/profile/legalclaret.bsky.social/post/3mw246ztors2x
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briantrumpet
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Carole Cadwalladr not holding back on Tom Watson.
https://bsky.app/profile/thenerve.news/post/3mvwrynreg22n
https://bsky.app/profile/thenerve.news/post/3mvwrynreg22n
PurplePenguin
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You would expect a solicitor acting for you to hand over confidential information about you to the government regulator?
That happens in the financial world through the anti money laundering rules, but it is also noted that this is in breach of the data protection laws, so as a result it's not very well thought through.
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briantrumpet
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The SRA isn't a government body. It's a separate branch of the Law Society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority
And one of its jobs is to monitor solicitors: the point of the objection to this ruling is that they can't do that if they can't demand access to potentially illegal communication (it would be like telling police that they can't access incriminating evidence).
https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/how-we-work/what-we-do/
PurplePenguin
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If you make a complaint about your lawyer, then they can act. If you make a complaint about someone else's lawyer, then a lot of the info will be confidential. That should be expected in my view.
And the police can still get involved.
The ownership of the regulatory body doesn't really matter.
I haven't read the judgement. I'm just not outraged by the bait that was posted.
