Middling lack of warm, moderate atmospheric movement,
missing skywater, massive scrapey, scrapey stuff and believe it or not but the
Sun has got his hat on, hip, hip, hip hooray, the Sun has got his hat on and he’s
visiting for the day.
Just returned from a very nice weekend with friends up in
Cheltenham, at least I think it was ham could have been ‘Orse for all I know,
spent the time walking, lunching at public houses and getting my arse kicked by
their pair of sadly un-fat teenagers on something called an X-Box.
And two minutes after I staggered in the portcullis the God-Botherers
arrived this time in the guise of “people” who witnessed Jehovah.
The pair of old farts tried to convince me that we don’t have
a soul, when we die that is it, there is no heaven or hell, and when Jehovah returns
all the dead people who have been buried will rise up and take over the world.
Which is a bit of luck for those who have been cremated
because they won’t have to put up with all the rotting undead lurching about
mumbling “bollocks” I was quite happy in my grave.
Not a very happy “religion” then...
And if she has the Norovirus she will
probably infect the rest of the nurses, doctors and patients in the ‘Orspital.
Bet she isn't laughing now....
According to the Torygraph an “alarming” threat to patient
safety is being posed by the “unmanageable workload” that hospital doctors have
to deal with, according to a worrying report published today.
The situation needs to be “urgently addressed” if frail
elderly patients are not to be put at further risk, according to the report by
the Royal College of Physicians.
Matters are worst in England’s provincial hospitals,
according to the College, because they struggle to recruit and retain hospital
doctors. It found a “worrying correlation” between low consultant staffing
levels and high death rates.
The report comes shortly after Jeremy Hunt, the Health
Secretary, announced a review to examine high death rates in 14 hospital
trusts. None are in London. Ten of the 14 are in the midlands or north- west
England. Experts are due to meet next week to agree a plan on how to tackle the
problem.
The Royal College found medical registrars - the grade below
consultant level - were being excessively overworked.
No change there then, bet her Maj doesn’t have knackered
medic....
A new “horse hotel”
scheme has been launched by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) offering
“quality assured bed & breakfast” accommodation near the Queen’s Balmoral
estate for horses, accompanied by their owners.
On arrival at Mar
Lodge Estate, near Braemar, the equine guests are shown to their holiday
paddocks to settle in and meet new friends before enjoying days of off-road
riding on the estate and on hill tracks including Glens Quoich and Lui.
The idea was the
brainwave of horse lover Fiona McCulloch, estate secretary on the trust’s
property in the Cairngorms National Park, who realised the acres of land
offered opportunities for riders to bring their horses with them.
Spiffing-wonder where the nearest Tesco is.....
Well know you can indulge your whim, from the Neato Shop comes:
Honey Badger Mints- Got bad breath? Honey badgers
don't care ... but he'll help!
- Net wt. 0.7 oz (20 g)
- Amt: about 100 mints per tin
- Tin size: 2-1/4" dia. x
1/2" (6 cm dia. x 1 cm)
Enjoy....
Did you know that being a “cynic” originally meant you
thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature,
rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a
simple life free from all possessions.
That lets me orf the hook then...
And finally:
In a research
vessel stationed off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., members from OCEARCH
captured and tagged another Great White shark Sunday.
She's 14.5 feet
long and weighs nearly 2,000 pounds. Her name is Lydia, after Lydia Moss
Bradley, the founder of Bradley University and long-time friend of Caterpillar,
who is sponsoring OCEARCH for three years. Lydia is the first great white
captured, satellite tagged and released in an area south of Cape Cod, Mass.
Researchers found
the 2,000-pound shark at the mouth of St. Johns River, which is near the
popular surfing spot of Mayport Poles near Jacksonville.
Lydia makes the
third great white shark tagged off the East Coast of the United States by
OCEARCH. The research group also tagged and is tracking Genie, a 14-foot,
nearly 2,300-pound shark, and Mary Lee, a 16-foot, nearly 3,500-pound shark.
Both were tagged with a satellite tracking device in September.
Couple of things; sod that a lot and I don’t think I will go
surfing at Mayport....
That’s it: I’m orf to avoid Sky even more
And today’s thought:
Well bugger me-or, him, or him, or...
Angus
