I woke at silly o’clock again, and made the most of it by
putting a load of washing in so that when I got up properly I could hang it
out. And with it hung out (a few hours later) I made my usual toast and
coffee. We’ve got Morrison’s coffee at the moment, and sadly it is the worst
coffee I have ever had.
Social media was dull this morning but I had some emails. I
had a replay from the town council about Ashford’s lack of a town crier… I say
“town council” Apparently “Ashford Borough Council has never had a
Town Crier since its inception in 1974. The role of Town Crier is one that is
more synonymous with a Town Council (third tier local Council authorities) than
a Borough or District Council”. The nice people went on to say that what
with the proposed reorganization of the local councils in Kent, having a Town
Crier isn’t something they would be considering any time soon.
Oh well… so much for that idea.
I Munzed, opening a Qrate, got Wordle (catty) on the
fourth attempt, and took the dogs out.
It was dry when we left home. The BBC weather forecast said
zero per cent chance of rain. As we drove up to the woods so the drizzle
started and got heavier, and it rained on and off for our entire walk. We
walked a slightly different walk to our usual one, but whichever way you go the
woods have got noticeably muddier.
On Tuesday I mentioned that I thought I heard pigs at the
two-miles point. I *definitely* heard pigs today at about the same (ish)
point. Something big was snuffling and snorting not ten yards from me in the
thicket. I couldn’t see anything but whatever it was, it was incredibly noisy.
We got back to the car after four and a half miles. Morgan
was funny; he is very good at coming when called *unless* he knows we
are going home and he wants more walk. He stopped about ten yards before where I put his lead on, and when I called
him, so he pretended not to hear me. I marched up to him with the lead and as I
bent down to him so he looked away with a rather indignant expression.
As we’d driven up to the woods there had been a rather
interesting program on the radio about Thomas Hardy. As we drove home where was
some utter tripe about “culture” featuring someone howling in French
accompanied on an out-of-tune accordion. That got turned off.
Once home it was a belly wash for all the dogs. This will
be the way forward for the next few months; they love their walk in the woods,
but their bellies do get grubby.
I made us a cuppa, then wrote up some CPD. Apparently
there’s to be yet another country-wide review of pathology services… That
should keep management types in business, but sums up all that is wrong with
the NHS. I’ve seen this so many times, and so has anyone who follows the news. What
happens is that there is a review of healthcare. Something or other is
suggested. But before whatever has been suggested is fully implemented,
something else is suggested. That which had been started is immediately
abandoned and the new idea is implemented. But before that is fully
implemented, yet another idea is suggested.
No idea is ever given long enough to take effect. No idea
is ever evaluated to see whether it was good or bad. Every idea is brought in
and thrown out on the whim of whichever politician is calling the shots at the
time. And I’m breaking no confidences in saying this. Just read the news and
the political histories of the last few decades… Am I wrong?
What the NHS needs is one over-arching review, and the
recommendations of that review to be put in place and tested over a period of a
year or so before reviewing and making improvements to what has been started.
What it doesn’t need is to be starting from scratch again
and again with annoying regularity.
I spent a few hours carrying on putting my Lego pirate ship
back together again. When it got taken apart (destroyed) all of the bits
supposedly got put into one box. It would seem a few bits got mislaid.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a good
bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching an episode of “Taskmaster”
and then an episode of “Celebrity Traitors”. Mind you for all that it is
a “celebrity” show, so far two have been banished and two murdered, and
I have no idea who any of those were.
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