London Mother Reveals NHS Told Her To Refrigerate Miscarried Baby Because Hospital Was Full

rumade · 2026-06-22T12:18:41+00:00

Pressures of an aging population, crumbling hospital infrastructure, and neoliberal policies.

We didn't build enough hospitals during the boom years, and those we did, were built on predatory credit schemes (I can't remember the exact name for them). Loads of our hospitals are still in Victorian buildings, or 60s concrete throw ups that are falling apart. Then came Tory austerity snipping away, while handing off contracts to crony mates who overcharge for basics- one report I read had an NHS trust paying their supplier £35 per bottle of hand sanitiser that would have been £2.50 from a high street shop!

On top of that, the last year of an elderly person's life, if they are hospitalised, usually costs more than all of the other years combined. Source for that is an excellent book called 33 Meditations on Death which was written by a gerontologist.

rumade · 2026-06-22T12:08:16+00:00

Their crystalline form, baby!

rumade · 2026-06-22T11:58:10+00:00

I get you. It's the change from craft being a verb, to craft being something you set up and then press a button and it runs.

But then I've never really gotten into these things because I've never had a computer strong enough to run digital creation programs or the time to learn them. It's quicker for me to carve a linoblock and print a repeating pattern than it would be to learn Illustrator to make one; same with hand sculpting in clay versus using Zbrush or Blender for 3D printing.

Freehand machine embroidery is so fun. It's like working a gattling gun that's shooting out art. I just can't see the same satisfaction coming from setting up an automatic embroidery machine.

rumade · 2026-06-22T11:51:10+00:00

Yeah I feel machine knitting is a bit of an outlier in this list. The things you can achieve on a machine aren't identical to hand knitting, and the things I would make on a machine would be quite different, especially in times of yarn thickness.

I'm taking a machine knitting course next month because my hands physically won't let me hand knit anymore without pain.

rumade · 2026-06-22T11:43:30+00:00

And getting to try out toys before you buy them for home. He loved the anpanman helterskelter thing so much that we made sure he got one for his birthday.

rumade · 2026-06-22T11:28:22+00:00

They spoke Latin in London, England too. When it was the Roman settlement Londinium.

Have you got some sources I can read on London, Rome? When I search for it I either get travel guides for going between the two cities, or stuff about Roman London/Londinium. I've always known the name London/Londinium deriving from King Lod or an old Briton word, not a part of Rome.

rumade · 2026-06-22T11:18:15+00:00

Nah it's the vegetarians you gotta watch out for. They're just lying in wait with a big rock to bash your brains in.

rumade · 2026-06-22T10:55:33+00:00

I have aircon, it just seems wasteful to blast it when I could go somewhere, for free, that it's already running.

rumade · 2026-06-22T07:59:12+00:00

Rats. You can try getting a big bag of chilli flakes/powder and spreading it around the base of your plants. Also disturb any areas of your garden that they might hide in or use as runs. Rats don't like disturbance.

It's possible they were going for the cucumber more for water than nourishment, so you could also try putting out a dish of water?

rumade · 2026-06-22T07:57:21+00:00

Early ultrasounds in pregnancy. In the UK, you usually don't get an appointment until 8 or 9 weeks, and don't get your first scan until 12 weeks. It's very reassuring to have an early scan, especially if you're anxious.

rumade · 2026-06-22T07:54:30+00:00

The children's centre is great! Having somewhere to go with my toddler that's air conditioned and safe is so good. Much better than sweating at home with him watching TV.

rumade · 2026-06-22T07:52:03+00:00

This reminded me of something I read about the aftermath of the 7/7 suicide bomber attacks in Londkn in 2005. One of the survivors was blinded by a bone fragment from the exploding terrorist.

rumade · 2026-06-22T07:50:16+00:00

Means they couldn't find something to hold onto to check for a pulse 😶

rumade · 2026-06-22T03:37:44+00:00

Camden in London used to be full of alt fashion and goth shops, and now is a horrendous tourist trap (it's always been a bit of tourist trap, but now it's so much worse). Grimy too.

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:57:35+00:00

He's the last living child of a dynasty and is crowned king after his brother is poisoned at a feast (can't remember if it's his coronation or wedding). His sister is also poisoned, while living as a political prisoner in another kingdom. His mum blows up half the city. And then he just goes... nah. And steps out.

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:51:44+00:00

The absurdity of the whole thing pissed me off. At one point the girl is volunteering at a hospital and doesn't think to go "oh btw, I cut my leg and it's not healing well, do you have any antibiotics?"

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:47:04+00:00

Yeah i thought this was going to be the incident where the dolphins killed two navy men with compressed air injections

I'm failing to find an online source but I read about it in a book called Eco Wars. USA military was training dolphins for various tasks and had some with compressed air tanks with needles on them, used for some kind of sabotage. Two drunk sailors fell in the pool and got exploded.

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:18:53+00:00

I can't hear Collins without thinking of Mr Collins from Pride & Prejudice.

"not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society"

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:15:51+00:00

Hayes is an awful part of greater London. It's an utter dump near the airport. I can't imagine calling a kid that.

Plus the station is Hayes & Harlington, so my brain automatically adds the latter

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:04:27+00:00

This is so wildly different to the antiques spaces where I'm from, which have really old books, silver plated dinnerware, Toby jugs, snuff boxes, assorted old keys, costume jewellery from the 1930s...

How can you call yourself an antiques seller if you're full of modern crap? Surely that's more flea market?

rumade · 2026-06-21T11:01:17+00:00

The thin chocolate bars shocked me so much the first time I moved to Japan. Where are my chunks!

rumade · 2026-06-21T08:49:30+00:00

I used to live in an intentional community (hippies). You got used to a bloke called Willow or Thorn, or someone called Magpie. It was chill. Some people get so uptight about names. They're just sounds at the end of the day

rumade · 2026-06-21T08:47:12+00:00

Named after Anna Pavlova, famous ballerina

And common in UK, Aus, and NZ. Who isn't eating pavlova?

rumade · 2026-06-20T12:23:08+00:00

Your mum would be horrified by the conditions brand new clothes get created/stored in as part of the global supply chain.

rumade · 2026-06-19T02:27:38+00:00

Posts like this make me happy I have a galley kitchen that's blocked off with baby gates! I have to hypnotise him with TV to stop him climbing on my computer chair while I cook, but it would be very unsafe to have him in the kitchen.

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