louiselocock.bsky.social
Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
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For all its faults and lack of funding, I'd still say the NHS is one of the crowning achievements of the post-war consensus
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🎯 68% of PIP appeals are overturned in favor of disabled people - proving the system already wrongly denies support. Now they want to make it even harder to qualify. This isn't reform, it's institutionalized discrimination. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
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🤣 Biggest tennis-related health risk for me has been my blood pressure watching my son play. As he and his brother like to point out
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Haha. RSI from operating the remote control, maybe....
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I phrased that badly! I've already read 1983 and loved it. Your mum and her colleagues were proper champions of education.
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Is that 1983? Or another book I haven't read yet?
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Haha, oh God. The LTA customer support team just sent me a survey to ask how they're doing. The link is broken. And if you click on the hyperlink to report an issue with the page, that link is also broken. That tells you everything you need to know about their 'customer support' 🤣
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There's a list of exempt categories which I believe is likely to cover them. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2522645...
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As I understand it this is just a temporary solution till Botley Rd reopens and then we'll get the full bus gate scheme
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I believe they fall into one of the proposed exemption categories?
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Finn's Fangs 😻
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Thanks. I'll ask. It would at least make it easier for us to come and go independently without having to each battle with the app...
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Feline companion would approve, except he's out for the count
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Well, if the lovely @mccallsmith.bsky.social says it's 'highly entertaining' how could I resist?
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I'm hoping my son and his partner can come, though it still bugs the hell out of me that the LTA were so adamant it was my mistake, not theirs, and therefore I couldn't ask for a refund.
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Will they? This seems quite insistent that it is app-only to prevent fraud (or indeed selling them on!)
www.lta.org.uk/support-cent...
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Yes we want less congestion. Which is....er.....what a congestion charge aims to do
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And now I'm wrestling with that awful LTA Courtside app. Completely opaque that they'd changed it from last year's app, and so annoying not being able to get a pdf of tickets. In-app only tickets with four of us is a total nightmare. Think I'll give Queen's a miss next year, life's too short. 2/2
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Tell me about it. When booking, the LTA website told me my transaction had timed out so I rushed to find and pay for two more tickets, only to discover that they'd already charged me for the first two. Would they cancel and refund? Would they heck, ended up with 4 tickets. 1/2