But it already happened.
Just been reading in the guardian about privatised health services in the UK, including out-of-hours GP services.
Unbelievable, just unbelievable.
Well used to the merry-go-round (or is it musical chairs?) of cleaning contracts with one cleaning company getting sacked and replaced by another sacked from a previous contract and how they replace each other before getting sacked and it starts all over again until the first sacked company is employed again.....
Well used to training providers not providing proper training or effective guidance for those looking for work but still getting paid a fortune for failing to do so.....
Well used to these money making enterprises being paid handsomely to provide a worse service so consistently compared to what was in place previously.
But I never expected them to be given responsibility for actual health services and then putting people's health at risk because of corner cutting and all the rest of it.
I wonder, has anyone looked into links between all these organisations?
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Three Weeks
A horrible time. The air conditioning system has packed up. We have to replace it as it's the heating system as well.
Can't have a New Brunswick winter without good heating.
But we've had hot weather and/or humidity and it's not comfortable.
Can't have a New Brunswick winter without good heating.
But we've had hot weather and/or humidity and it's not comfortable.
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
Not this time
This is the time of year when I used to be on a Greek Island, looking forward to the upcoming summer football tournament and armed with my 4-4-2 and Total Football "specials" which I would read as if they were the sports pages with my brekky.
Without getting carried away, thoughts were "maybe this time" when thinking of England's chances.
Not this time. Now that I'm in Canada and I've not been going on those trips, I've still been buying the magazines and still looking forward to the tournaments. Not this time.
Not this time.
Without getting carried away, thoughts were "maybe this time" when thinking of England's chances.
Not this time. Now that I'm in Canada and I've not been going on those trips, I've still been buying the magazines and still looking forward to the tournaments. Not this time.
Not this time.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Oscars for Civil Servants
The nicest letter I ever got thanked me for helping and said
"...just finding my file seems to be a job for Clark Kent. If they gave Oscars for Civil Servants I'd certainly nominate you for one."I shall never forget that. Did you write it?
Saturday, 14 April 2012
The things we don't think about
We all know - or I suppose we do - about the planes being grounded after 9/11. But I never really thought any more of that than planes being parked at airports.
Only after I'd moved to Moncton did I begin to read about planes being diverted and quickly grounded wherever they could land.
"Little" Moncton was one of many places handling loads of planes and their passengers and there are many 'human interest' tales as a result - including anniversary memories and reunions.
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It's now the anniversary of the Titanic sinking with the loss of over 1500 lives. Today I was reading how Halifax, Nova Scotia handled all the bodies recovered (at a Curling rink) and that undertakers from all over Atlantic Canada (again, including Moncton) went to help, not just preparing all the bodies but helping with identification processes too.
Never once have I thought about that sort of thing and how it's dealt with. I mean, I've seen TV clips of bodies laid out in big halls but you just don't think about who deals with these things. Or do you?
Only after I'd moved to Moncton did I begin to read about planes being diverted and quickly grounded wherever they could land.
"Little" Moncton was one of many places handling loads of planes and their passengers and there are many 'human interest' tales as a result - including anniversary memories and reunions.
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It's now the anniversary of the Titanic sinking with the loss of over 1500 lives. Today I was reading how Halifax, Nova Scotia handled all the bodies recovered (at a Curling rink) and that undertakers from all over Atlantic Canada (again, including Moncton) went to help, not just preparing all the bodies but helping with identification processes too.
Never once have I thought about that sort of thing and how it's dealt with. I mean, I've seen TV clips of bodies laid out in big halls but you just don't think about who deals with these things. Or do you?
Sunday, 4 March 2012
I told you so
He wasn't up to it and has been sacked.
Jeez, if I saw that last June, why did nobody else see it?
Jeez, if I saw that last June, why did nobody else see it?
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
The pressure mounts
Further to my original post from June last year and brief comment on December 1, things are worse for AVB, the manager/coach who some folk inexplicably thought could come to Chelsea and be a success.
He's alienated players - barring a couple from the xmas party - and made strange selections.
Last June I commented that in his one season at Porto where he impressed (having seemingly been appointed to that job on a whim) he had simply continued an eight year period of success begun by "special one" Jose Mourinho.
I've since discovered that there were 5 or 6 different, and maybe similarly inexperienced, coaches and they all continued the run of success; the players available were obviously that good to do well no matter who was in charge.
Not only that, but the guy who was AVB's assistant last season has remained at Porto and they're still in contention at the top of their league. It seems he's one of seven to have been put in charge of something successful and to have maintained success without having to change anything.
Obviously it's not easy to keep a club at the top but it's much harder to come to a club that needs a certain amount of rebuilding having fallen away a bit. And he's showing it.
He's alienated players - barring a couple from the xmas party - and made strange selections.
Last June I commented that in his one season at Porto where he impressed (having seemingly been appointed to that job on a whim) he had simply continued an eight year period of success begun by "special one" Jose Mourinho.
I've since discovered that there were 5 or 6 different, and maybe similarly inexperienced, coaches and they all continued the run of success; the players available were obviously that good to do well no matter who was in charge.
Not only that, but the guy who was AVB's assistant last season has remained at Porto and they're still in contention at the top of their league. It seems he's one of seven to have been put in charge of something successful and to have maintained success without having to change anything.
Obviously it's not easy to keep a club at the top but it's much harder to come to a club that needs a certain amount of rebuilding having fallen away a bit. And he's showing it.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Dodgy Humour
I enjoy what some people would call a tasteless, or sick joke.
I think I finally found one that goes too far.
I think I finally found one that goes too far.
The Starbucks one doesn't seem too bad. But the other one is definitely too far.COMEDIAN Frankie Boyle has sparked anger again by mocking the family of missing Madeleine McCann. In an interview, Boyle said “there is no too far” in comedy before making a joke about the McCanns, whose daughter vanished on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007.
Boyle was asked if he was following the Leveson inquiry into press standards.He said: “Yeah, I saw the McCanns on there and really wanted them to go, ‘Could you round it up in the next few minutes, mate? We’ve left the kids over in Starbucks’.
“Just to show they can still have a bit of a laugh.”
During a gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2010, Boyle said that some part of Gerry McCann must be pleased that Madeleine had gone “so he could use her room for a pool table”.
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