We have a small social life but to be truthful we dont have much money spare anymore and to have a busy social life you need more money plus a babysitter that is not going to cost an arm and a leg.
To be honest we have changed such a lot in the past 18 months, and my priority now is having a pool lol.
We live in a beautiful community but night life is minimum
You're right about the babysitting thing! The real reason I've re-discovered my social life is that my eldest is old enough - & sensible enough - to be left in charge from time to time!
Yup a pool is great - we love ours in Florida - has a jacuzzi attached & floating remote to turn it on/off or heat it/cool it! How SAD are we!!!! Hope to be having some of my social life set right up by that pool when we finally get over for good! Our area is also a little short on the night-life so we'll have to make our own!!
Do you remember that "hospital" smell that literally seemed to soak into your skin? When I did my return to nursing in 2005 it just didn't smell like that anymore. I guess they were using powerful disinfectants then that are probably banned now!! Wonder if that's why the MRSA rates soared?!!
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
As a nurse in the States, I am intrigued by the idea of cardboard bedpans. Please tell me more.
And glass IV bottles, we still occasionally use them.
disposable bed pans made of cardboard and once used put in a machine and ripped to shreds and washed away, really good. Very rare have I used glass IV bottles
after being in quite a few hospitals and seeing how they deal with the lack of the poo eater is intriguing. I cant believe that they have never followed thru with the brits and still expect their nurses to handle bodily waste this way. the american nurses cant grasp the idea of cardboard bedpans and urinals.
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You're right about the babysitting thing! The real reason I've re-discovered my social life is that my eldest is old enough - & sensible enough - to be left in charge from time to time!
Yup a pool is great - we love ours in Florida - has a jacuzzi attached & floating remote to turn it on/off or heat it/cool it! How SAD are we!!!! Hope to be having some of my social life set right up by that pool when we finally get over for good! Our area is also a little short on the night-life so we'll have to make our own!!
Do you remember that "hospital" smell that literally seemed to soak into your skin? When I did my return to nursing in 2005 it just didn't smell like that anymore. I guess they were using powerful disinfectants then that are probably banned now!! Wonder if that's why the MRSA rates soared?!!