I woke early, but rather than spending half an
hour or so watching stuff on the telly that "er indoors TM"
don’t like, I spent half an hour letting dogs in and out of the garden. As I
did so I noticed that there were no light on in “nutty next door”. There hasn’t been any lights on in that house
either early in the morning or late at night for a couple of weeks now. There
used to be. Perhaps they have gone on holiday, or perhaps they have gone for
good.
I sparked up my lap-top and had a look into the
Internet. I widened my circle of friends on Facebook, then checked my inbox.
There were more job offers from a laboratory in Essex. Whilst not far away in a
straight line, Essex isn’t really practical. But I did have an email from Mrs
Ruth Benson who lives in the Ivory Coast. She wanted to “donate and hand over some fund to you for charity work for community
development (Like: Building home for the old aged, Orphanage Homes, taking care
of the widows in the community etc)”.
You have to admire the tenacity of these
scammers.
Bearing in mind yesterday’s being late
to work I set off half an hour earlier than usual. As I drove the pundits on
the radio were talking about all sorts of stuff.
They started off with diesel cars. Year
of official advice has prompted people to buy diesel cars, and now that diesel
is seen to be responsible for all of the evils of the world the tax on diesel
cars is going through the roof. This is felt to be somewhat unfair on the
people who bought diesel cars following official advice.
The Prime Minister has dropped hints that she might not be
quite as harsh as has been suspected. I’m just glad I decided against diesel. I
can remember when the stuff used to freeze in the winter.
My piss boiled when the pundits then
turned on the NHS (again). Now it
seems that the problem with the NHS is a total absence of long-term
planning.
What utter rubbish. It is patently obvious that the problems facing the NHS are
due to *far* too much long term
planning. For as long as I’ve been working for the NHS I have seen government
initiative after government initiative brought in only to be abandoned after (at most) a year. Far too short a time
for any effects of said initiative to be felt. What the NHS really needs is far
less of these plans. The NHS needs one plan, and needs to be left for that plan
to actually take effect.
Oh – and a
seven-foot-long tuna has been found (dead)
floating in the River
Severn.
Having left home half
an hour early I got to work an hour and a half too early. I read my Kindle for
a bit, then went into work and did my bit. I was late getting out and after
getting stuck in traffic I came home to see my former employer had sent me a
letter. They have invited me to become a public member of East Kent Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust. I might just take them up on the offer. It don’t cost
anything and if I get bored it might be a chance to do some good.
Today was rather dull
really…
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