I've somehow burst a
blood vessel in my eye. Excessive blood pressure from yesterday's
ranting perhaps?
I slept well; the alarm
woke me which is unusual, and I got up to find the dishwasher hadn't
been as thorough on the crockery as it might have been. More salt
perhaps?
Over brekkie I watched an
episode of "Family Guy"; somehow the SkyPlus box has
recently recorded over forty episides of the show. I didn't tell it
to do that. I wonder what tthat device is up to. I then checked out
social media; yesterday I organised a walk for the upcoming Bank
Holiday and suggested it to a few people. This morning I was rather
surprised at how many people have taken me up on the idea.
And so to work. As I
drove the news mentioned (in passing) the problems of the
local health authority who are facing a forty
million pound shortfall.
Interestingly the health
authority was quoted as saying "... a national shortage of
doctors and nurses makes it difficult to recruit permanent staff in
some areas, which means .... we have to employ very expensive agency
staff." This has been a common feature of all hospital work
for at least thirty years. The pay you get in the NHS isn't that bad,
but you can get far more doing the same job if you work through an
agency. The reason... no one wants to work for a hospital because if
you make the slightest mistake you find yourself publically crucified
on the altar of outraged media opinion (I might have mentioned
this before, not that I'm in any way bitter). Consequently there
are usually un-fillable vacancies and agencies offer to fill those
vacancies... for a price.
That would be market
forces in action again. Are these market forces *really* as
good as the capitalists would have us believe?
As I drove it was raining
again. The BBC weather forecast was telling of the lovely clear
morning in south east England. I sometimes wonder about suggesting to
the BBC that their radio people might do better betting their weather
forecasts from the BBC's own weather website. The BBC website's
weather forecast is usually different to that broadcast on the radio.
The radio is always wrong; the website more often right than wrong.
I got to work and did
what I had to. Several people commented about my eye. It looks a lot
worse than it is.
Getting home was a
problem; road works at one of the busiest junctions made me half an
hour late gettinig home. On the plus side "er indoors TM"
was able to meet me and "Furry Face TM"
as we had our little pootle round the park.
It's tea time soon.
There's a box of wine in the fridge left over from the party a couple
of weeks ago. It needs drinking up....
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