Tamara wrote: <but try saying "East 4771a, Fancy Hill Mansion, but there's no sign; look for a big mail box painted yellow, with a spider, on your right side", when your nearest and dearest is turning blue from a stroke/heart attack/petit mal... Then the info has to be passed on from the dispatcher to the rescue team, and the rescue team has to find the place>
Exactly that happened when we lived in Somerset. DH was having a heart attack at 2 am. I dialled 999 and requested an ambulance. Address? "Crosslets Bungalow, Churchinford. Take the Blagdon Hill road out of Taunton. Through Blagdon Hill, up through the hairpin. Pass the radio station and Smeatharpe turn-off which are on the right. Immediately after that turn left at Hunters Lodge on the corner of the lane on your left, and it's the first bunaglow you come to on the right-hand side, about a quarter of a mile down the lane. I'll put all the lights on as a beacon." The ambulance arrived inside 10 minutes. We lived a mile outside a village on the hills 6 miles south of Taunton. The postman delivered by van because there were many scattered houses, and he'd collect post from us as well as deliver. There were three postmen on the round who rotated nightshift sorting the post, deliveries, time off. Because they knew the names of everyone on their rounds, they even once delivered a letter to me addressed to "Jean Nathan, The Cottage, Taunton". I don't know if it's the same all over Poole, but the area I live in has no houses numbered 13 in any of the roads. The numbers in the road I live on start at 11 because there's space for building homes before that, and the next is number 15, then 17 and so on.They are numbered odd one side of the road and even on the other, but not necessarily equally - I live at number 46, the number of the bungalow opposite is 27. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
