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Poverty of ambition, poverty tout court, incompetence of officials, capture by special interests, mere factionalism, coin toss by tired minister.

It's ironic that the drugs requiring extra planning and executive function are so often for ADHD / depression / other conditions making this hard. I moved house two years ago and the rigmarole my new GP surgery makes around signing off methylphenidate defeated me.

Sizewell C?

Far from it and quite otherwise. But if the Dr approves a Rx on 1 Feb which I collect say on 3 Feb, I can ask for a repeat on 22 Feb and collect on 25 Feb. At which point I have 7 pills more than I had on 3 Feb.

(Here the 28 days run from when the GP signed off the prescription, so the lag before pickup doesn't affect the strategy.)

I can order a repeat prescription up to a week early - for a 28 day rx, that would be after 21 days - so with enough organisation you can lay in a couple of months per year. Generally I build up to a fortnight's buffer, forget to order in time, and drop back to zero.

Dino-soar more like.

Talking of deposed royalty, I've just lost a crown myself. Must book into the dentist.

Conversely we used non-bio for baby things, so as not to irritate. The nappies got rather grey with time but London hard water does that to everything.

I mean, I got it in 5 and it's definitely in my passive vocabulary. But still.

Bah.

Not for nothing is the Helen the unit of beauty. Usually the Milihelen, or the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship. (Though this is not without controversy, as properly you shouldn't combine metric prefixes with Troy measures.)

The Wychwood Warriors seem still to be going, if you need help there.

Under the rules governing grand families like the Cholmondeleys (pronounced Chumly) and the Featherstonehaughs (pronounced Fanshaw), etc, etc, it is most likely pronounced Clitoris.

I am sure you are right.

South Africa and Western Sahara are both helpful. Central African Republic tries but it leaves a big margin for error.

Cities are infrastructure lasting hundreds of years, and we need to think on that timescale with cumulative ambition: millennium development goals + 2050 Net Zero + climate change adaptation to 2090 + transition to sustainability thereafter.

Hard to feed the contemporary urban population density just with artisanal potatoes and coppice-grown hazelnuts, though.

Ah. My condolences then but nothing actually helpful. Sorry.

The book you want is called "What to do when someone dies", published iirc by Which?. So says my father, a serial executor. Long may the day I need this knowledge be postponed.