Over brekkie I watched
yet another episode of "Are You Being Served".
Arguably the lamest character in the show (and that's up against
some pretty serious competition) Mr Tebbs left to be replaced by
Mr Goldberg. As I recall its at about this point in the show's
history that it becomes seriously lame.
Mind you I found out
today that the actress who played Mr
Grace's secretary was (at the time) famous for "flopping
them out". I might have mentioned that I'm a staunch
supporter of this sort of thing.
As I watched so my
"friends" next door had something of a family
domestic; shrieking and shouting at 6.30am. In years gone by that
chap would listen at the wall and report the squabbles that I and
"Daddies Little Angel TM" would
have to the council's social workers.
I wonder if he realises
that I'm *not* returning the favour.
I then checked out the
Internet. The entire nation is up in arms because the winner of
"Britain's Got Talent" apparently cheated by using a
stunt
dog in her performance. I initially was going to pose the
question "who cares?" but to the nation's shame
evidently millions of people seem to care.
Instead I'll make the
observation that the whole stunt dog debacle was probably done
deliberately to keep the show in the news.
As I drove to work the
Minister for Health was being interviewed on the radio. At the risk
of sounding disrespectful, that chap is a master at talking bollocks.
Apparently (!) there is a serious shortage of doctors and
nurses and so agencies are
able to charge a fortune to supply doctors and nurses from their
staff.
The Minister for Health
thinks this is too expensive and he intends to bring in legislation
capping the maximum amount an agency can charge.
Now I thought that his
was called "market forces" and that Conservative
politicians felt it was a good thing. But what do I know?
It was interesting that
the Minister for Health seemed to be oblivious to the fact that there
are more people than just doctors and nurses in hospitals.
Pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, radiographers, biomedical
scientists, medical coders, porters, painters, cleaners and the like
didn't warrant a mention. I wonder if there are shortages amongst
those peeople too?
It was also interesting
that he pundits on the radio didn't seem to want to take any
responsibility for a crisis in NHS staffing; were they not to be
constantly running a witch-hunt on every hospital in the country
perhaps people might want to work in them?
I stopped off at
Morrisons to get all the stuff I forgot yesterday and then went on to
work where I did some. I then came home and took "Furry Face
TM" round the park for a walk. The fun
fair has arrived, and there are caravans full of fun-fair-folk all
over the place. We didn't hang around.
On the wayy home we met a
small child in full Kung-Fu costume obviously on his way to Karate
class. He was "Hi-Ya-ing" in a menacing fashion at
everyone and everything he saw... until he saw my dog. It was at that
point when he screamed and ran in terror.
Being Tuesday the clans
gathered; this time in Somerset Road. Having forgotten to bring the
right episode of "The Flash" we played ChromeCast
games and watched Doctor Who take on the latest variety of
cybermat...
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