‘tis warm, calm and sunny at the Castle this morn, there was
a massive ingress of broken adding machines into the study yestermorn, already
been down to Tesco on the stale bread, gruel and pussy food run, last week I
splashed out on sic crusty rolls-70p, this week I thought I would do the
same-75p, thieving b’stards.....
Elderly patients in half of NHS hospitals are not being
properly fed or cared for because of a lack of “kindness and compassion”, the
health watchdog warns today.
The Care Quality Commission says that too often staff pay
more attention to paperwork than those they are looking after.
Unacceptable care has become standard in some trusts, with
doctors and nurses talking down to patients, ignoring their calls for
assistance and failing to help them eat, drink or wash.
It isn’t just older patients that receive piss poor
care.....and don’t listen to all the excuses-not enough staff, not enough
money, not enough time or too many managers.
Angry BlackBerry users have called for compensation as the
internet outage that has crippled their smart phones continued through
Wednesday and spread to North America and Asia.
In a statement, RIM, which makes BlackBerry devices, said:
"BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent
service delays this morning"
The firm faced growing calls for compensation from users all
over the world. European, Middle Eastern and African BlackBerry owners have now
endured three working days without mobile internet access, including email and
instant messaging.
RIM made no comment on the whether it would offer any money
back as it battled to restore services. Users bombarded its Twitter accounts
with demands for compensation on Wednesday afternoon.
Run the video above, and all will be revealed.
It seems the pensioners of Portsmouth are simply not
interested in sex, after a sexual health workshop for the over 60s failed to
receive any interest.
Given the title Generation Sex, the workshop aimed to
explore 'the realities of sex in the 21 century', encouraging the practice of
safer sex among older people.
A spokesman for the event described it as having the
potential to be 'frank, fun and factual' - however the event was cancelled due
to lack of interest.
Portsmouth City Council's annual 60+ festival was to feature
the workshop as a means of breaking down the taboo of people over 60 indulging
in sex.
A spokesperson for the Council explained: 'The background
was the risk of sexually-transmitted diseases in older people and the need to
practice safer sex.
'It was decided to cancel the event because too few people
booked places.'
Studies have shown that there has been a rise in STIs among
over-45s, with a growing number of men and women over 60 becoming infected.
Given half a chance would be nice.....
A BMW driver ended up plunging through a multi-storey car
park wall after he put his automatic car into the wrong gear and then put his
foot down.
Markus Barosch, 78, went plunging through the car park wall
and was trapped for nearly an hour until firemen arrived to set him free.
The rescuers had to stop the car toppling backwards and prop up the demolished wall before they could rescue the trapped pensioner from Rathenau, Germany.
The rescuers had to stop the car toppling backwards and prop up the demolished wall before they could rescue the trapped pensioner from Rathenau, Germany.
He escaped with a minor bruise but the car was a write off and will have to be scrapped, the Austrian Times reported.
Forward, reverse, it’s all in the box somewhere.
A biker is in
trouble after being caught speeding - while sliding along the ground without
his motorcycle.
Police in
Switzerland say Boris Maier, 38, from Bern, set off a speed camera while
careering helplessly at 67mph in a 50mph zone.
The speed camera
failed to record what speed the bike was travelling as it slid down the road in
a shower of sparks - focusing instead on the unlucky biker.
Traffic police
believe he would have been going a great deal faster when he first saw the
camera.
A police spokesman
said: "It appears that he suddenly saw the traffic control measure ahead
and lost control as he tried to slow down."
Police say the
motorcyclist, who was wearing protective leathers, was unhurt apart from minor
cuts and bruises.
He faces a fine and
a police spokesman said he was lucky not only in surviving unhurt but also as
he would have lost his licence if he had been going a fraction faster.
The incident
happened between the towns of Cibourg and La Chaux-de-fonds, close to Bern and
the French border.
And finally:
Authorities in the
San Francisco Bay area town of Novato are in a flap about the theft of a park
statue—a 700-pound bronze pelican.
The Marin
Independent Journal says the statue, titled "Omay"—a Miwok Indian
word for pelican—apparently was stolen over the weekend from a park near
Scottsdale Pond.
The statue was
commissioned by the city council in 2007 at a cost of $27,500. It is 9 feet
tall with a 10-foot wingspan.
Novato police say
it may have been stolen for its metal but the motive isn't clear yet. They're
offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the thieves.
Melted down Pelican....
That’s it: I’m orf to check out the
TV.
And today’s thought: Learn from your parents' mistakes . . .
use birth control.
