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Archive for August, 2009

14 Aug

More NHS stuff

Daniel Hannan is a prize wanker.
An educated chap obviously but one so wrapped up in his own sense of worth that he misses the world out there.
I like hospitals run by someone I trust. I like choice. But please tell me how an educated person can make an educated assessment of health care [...]

14 Aug

Pandemia

The custody or otherwise of a laptop does not indicate your importance during a pandemic.

14 Aug

More thoughts on the NHS

One of the best things about the NHS is that it doesn’t encourage the development of spam. Cam you remember when you last got an email from the NHS offering cheap drugs for normal conditions?
No. Neither can I.

13 Aug

Health Care scare

So Obama wants to fix US healthcare? Good for him. It’s a great idea and long overdue. I’ve experienced both sides of the pond and I much prefer the UK approach because it works and it is cost effective. In the US it works for some and not for others but it is expensive and [...]

11 Aug

Football without glasses

Watching the re run of the Charity Plate Thing on a Spanish hotel tv sans glasses makes it difficult to see the action. But it has a reassuring old school feel to the coverage as the same fuzziness is available as you sometimes see on re-runs of Mexico 1970!

11 Aug

Bottle in bag

After muttering much abuse at the idiot people delaying my passage through the security point at Madrid I got pulled over for having a bottle of sun cream at the bottom of my bag.
I apolgise to the World for travelling like an idiot old person on tour.

09 Aug

Clod

According to Adam Pearson it seems that Clod has cost Derby something like £250,000 per appearance.
As about 75 minutes of that in total was worthwhile he must be approaching the worst buy for the Club ever.

09 Aug

Comments

sorry folks – there seems to be an issue with approving comments. Tony Cook – I will post your comment asap.
In the meantime, if you stumble across this post please take note of Mrs O’Conner and Awaiting.
Eyethangyow

09 Aug

And so it begins …

First game of the season yesterday and a win for the Rams. Made life difficult by the sound of things but lots of kids in the squad and a shortage of front line strikers was never going to make it easy.
Get Hulse, Porter, Barker and Leacock fit and we’ll be good to go I [...]

09 Aug

Summer Time

Outside pools are freat except for the amount of leaves that get blown in. 30 mins cleaning for a 15 minute dip before the sun started to notice my back!
What a pain.

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