I've seen all manner of scheduled evening programmes overridden by live sport in the past.Ah! but at least F1 is normally on on Saturday/Sunday afternoons which doesn't really clash with anything, it's the sports that they put on in the evening Prime Time that causes problems, especially with soap fans, also the money they have to spend on showing these has caused a downturn in decent programs being produced.
There's some I like to stop working and watch, and those I like to listen to mostly with the occasional glance - Eastenders being one!
Saturday and Sunday afternoons are traditionally sports biased during the day, and it's no problem for most people who don't watch sport.
I used to watch F1 but got bored with it ...Martin Brundle's constant prattling didn't help!
Never been to anything like that. I do know going to a football match has become far more costly than it was. Dad's with a couple of youngsters will need far more cash than they used to.I go to see football BUT only at a local level, my team Dulwich Hamlet are in the Ryman Premier League (about 7th division in mainstream terms), one of our players has just been snapped up by 1st Division Peterborough.
Yes, the art theme ..but when I got the first book, I hadn't realised that ..only served to make it more interesting! It's only a small part of most of the books though. Some have the Vatican as a backdrop, others places like Venice, Paris, London etc.I see a theme there "Art", when I used to shirk (read work) I used to do a lot of reading sitting in my guards office and go through a book in a few days, but now that I have retired I seem to have given up, now takes a month or more to read a book, a couple of pages before I go to sleep.
I've been getting so tired lately, I rarely get more than a few pages read before I start to drop off. Sometimes though, I can read for half an hour or more. No matter, it's still a whole different world to dive into and empty my mind of anything else!
I'm currently 'in the Kremlin and Moscow' with a book
Yes, bigger practices seem to be cropping up more and more, and they don't feel as 'user friendly'.The bigger the practice the worse they seem to get, mine seems to have had a high turnover of other doctors recently, I hate to think what will happen when the 2 originals retire, the statin I take is Atorvastatin, I had my doctor swap me to that one because you can take it at anytime of the day, which was handy when I worked shifts, because it meant I could take all my meds just before leaving home to go to work, nowadays I normally take them all together at about 10:00
My husband was given statins by the sister and developed pins & needles in his arm and neck, so they were stopped right away and a note made that he couldn't take them. The stupid doctor though he knew better and gave him a different one: he then got aching joints, weak muscles and wasn't sleeping soundly at all. He began losing the sharp edge to his mind too. He got a stiff neck and came out in a rash. Of the list of possible side effects, he had at least 3/4 of them. The doctor gave him yet another, same thing. Then when he went about the sore on his head and was told it would be frozen off at a later date, but what about his BP and some statins ...I got really annoyed and flushed the statins.
A search will easily produce lots of evidence that not all people can take them ...millions can, thousands can't. Some of the effects, if left long enough will not reverse. At the time, I read of two cases where someone had been taken into a care home as cognitive issues worsened, only to have a relative work out the onset of the condition and have the statins ceased. I can honestly say that my husband never regained that sharpness completely. Thankfully, his weak muscles and aching joints did recover.
It troubles me that many of the side effects can easily be put down to general ageing, and the sister did say she tries to look out for such things, but not all are as dedicated as she is.
We aren't all made the same, far from it, and as such they cannot assume to treat everyone in the same way.
I'll quite happily say no to any medication that I don't want, but he didn't when the doctor pressurised him. I think now though, he may be a lot firmer over such things.
Some people set doctors on pedestals and miss the fact that like the rest of us, they can all have feet of clay!
, when I used to shirk (read work) I used to do a lot of reading sitting in my guards office and go 

