Just reminds me of my uncle. He has cancer which has just spread to his lungs and liver. He has months to live. Cancer is such a **** disease. I hope Cruyff beats it.
Sadly true, and not just of doctors. Last week the NHS financial figures for the first quarter of 2015-16 revealed an overspend of more than £900 million. £600 million of that went on Bank and Agency staff, mostly nurses, but other professions as well. My own profession, Biomedical Scientists, who are the most numerous of healthcare professionals other than doctors and nurses, have been leaving the NHS in droves because of changing conditions which mean massive pay cuts and longer hours. The result is that some of them join locum agencies and go back to the NHS on their own terms and much better pay rates, all of which contributes to the overspend. Much the same is happening with other health professionals and of course the doctors and nurses who tend to get the publicity of which that article is an excellent example. The solution is so blindingly obvious that anyone with the smallest particle of brain-cell could work it out. You wouldn't even need to improve the salaries, just stop cutting them. Unfortunately our beloved government are hell-bent on destroying the NHS and are refusing to see it.
Just part of the overall political plan, Chilco. Spend less on the NHS and those that can't afford to pay or wait can kick the bucket. That means less of them and less chance of them multiplying. It's positively Malthusian.
Robert Mugabe has been awarded a Peace Prize by China. You couldn't make this stuff up: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/22/robert-mugabe-zimbabwe-dictator-awarded-chinas-ver/
Just spending a few minutes with the old phone before I have to go off to work. Thought I'd give some personal experience on phone security, if you want some. The other day I had a Win7 PC on the net and up popped a hoax security alert. But it did mean that I ended up running Malwarebytes and MSE. Nothing found of course as there was nothing there. Last night I had a similar thing on my Galaxy S2 phone. This time I took it a bit more seriously because phones are a little more in harms way, and so I downloaded CM Security Free. It found quite a bit of security wobbly stuff. Not from the hoax alert but from past stuff. Now I tend to be fairly careful with my phone, but I do have unlimited internet on it and therefore do a lot of stuff on it too. I was very impressed by the thorough nature of CM Security's process. It was also very fast and it is very light on resources. Anyway, this isn't an advert or referral [I promise], just info which you can use or not. See you later TSS
if I remember correctly, he's already had heart surgery because of his 20+ ***s a day habit. Tobacco is a pretty evil drug.
Thanx Tom. It's bad watching cancer take hold. He has it in his bones as well, so is now in a wheelchair and is in constant pain. They say his memory will start to go soon. So a pretty bad way to go.
Not wishing to drag things down, but it is a horrible disease. My mum had it for 8 years before we lost her. It was a roller coaster ride, one year ok, then a bad one.
I love my gadgets and computers but decided about a year ago I wanted a phone which was just that, a phone. This is my little credit card sized solution - http://i0.wp.com/axfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_0442-e1386123595516.jpg It can't take pictures, do internet or make tea. But it fits in my wallet, phones and texts fine. Quite relaxing really. Oh and £20 off eBay so almost disposable.
I just hope I don't get really ill. My gammy leg isn't going to kill me but they wont do anything to ease it as it comes with being old. What I worry about is what is happening to my children and grandchildren. What worries me is the insanity of "its the economy stupid" sort of mentality. Everything and anything is ok so long as it benefits the economy. I await the day when I hear the chancellor say that slavery has been reintroduced as it is good for the economy (if you don't believe that is possible just remember we already have slavery in this country that no one gives a toss about). This week the times was reporting about the cost of pensions and how young people were very jealous. Well if we let the old die then we don't have to pay their pensions or medical care and we can free up much needed housing. That will all be good for the economy.
Yep, I keep a couple of my old ordinary mobiles handy, just in case. But when mobiles first appeared I waited for the day when they would become the tiny computers they are today. Any mobile I have had in the past has always been for convenience - no love there at all, except for the very first Panasonic I had, and a very good phone it was tbf. I loved it so much I left it on my car roof and drove away with it still there. Never saw it again.! Wasn't exactly that bothered. When smartphones came along I waited as long as I could to let in the usual people who bring the prices down for the rest of us. These days, my S2 pretty goes everywhere with me. Even when I take a shower I've usually got it streaming something off iPlayer Radio in an echoey corner of the bathroom so that its volume carries. Even an S4 makes it feels quite archaic, when going back to it, but it works a treat still so there's no point in changing it.
A Book Review by FLT.... A brief one anyway. Book: "Us" Author: David Nicholls Recommended by: LTL, following comments by me about a quiz night. Based on Laces' recommendation I bought the book. I the read the back and thought, "Really?" I started it, read a few pages and then left it for a while. Recent plane journeys and extended hours at airports gave me the nudge to read it and finish it. I'm not sure how to review it for people in general, other than to say I am not sure you'd 'get it' unless you're middle aged or above, married or been married, or a parent, or any of that list. It's a fabulously engrossing book that I really thought would be dull and soppy. It is dull and soppy. I loved it though. It scared the crap out of me too. I saw so many things in the main character that made me think of me and not in a good way. It's just a story about a normal bloke, with a normal life and his marriage and relationship with his wife and son. It flicks between the current time and back to the development of his relationship with his wife from when they first met, bringing it all to the same time at the end. I really enjoyed it and didn't think I would. It has also made me take a long hard look in the mirror. Thanks for the recommendation Laces.... and the quiz night!!! I may have felt exactly as Douglas did, but at least I just moaned on the forum about it and didn't complain on the night to the judges Ps. I wonder if Chilco has read it? The character is a biochemist and whenever I read a book, I visualise the character. I just saw Chilco on every page, beard and all. Hope he's not offended if he has read it.
