In all the media frenzy over the new Oasis tour, this popped up which reminds me of my youth. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/celebs-tv/inside-oasis-unlikely-link-remote-9511461 It was a secret closely guarded by locals to avoid being over-run by emmets, but by tradition, whoever was recording at Sawmills Studio also played an outdoor gig at a an unrelated summer event at a location which even now I cannot reveal. By 1994 I was miles away. I wonder if Oasis played in a Cornish field that year?
Where are you going in your holidays next year? The first privately funded fully orbital space flight, which will include a space walk, has just blasted-off in Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 spacecraft.
You couldn’t make this stuff up could you? Police minister's purse stolen at police conference https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx6xvvn25xo
I worked in local housing for many years and once did a stint in an office in North Prospect. Our Area Manager was at a meeting one evening at that office with a local committee when he had all four tyres on his car stolen whilst there. He came out of the meeting to be greeted with his car on bricks. The meeting was to discuss anti social behaviour. Have to say the staff did chuckle a little bit.
There’s an interesting story in the sports section today about Martin Elliot, a consultant at Great Ormond Street, specialising in heart and lung surgery in young children. Apparently, the riskiest time, especially for children, is between the completion of surgery and getting the patient into an intensive care bed. Any incident, such as a wire or tube becoming detached can be fatal. Elliot was invited to an F1 race and had a prime view from above the Ferrari pit. The fastest F1 pit stop is recorded at 1.9 seconds. Impressed by what he saw, Elliot asked Ferrari to look at how his surgical team handled moving children from surgery to intensive care. Ferrari were politely horrified. The hierarchical structure meant that nobody moved until the consultant moved. When an action was taken, everyone pitched in. In contrast, in the pits, everyone has a tightly defined role. Nobody looks across to see what the person next to them is doing. Each concentrates on their own task and knows exactly what do if things do not go right first time. With Ferrari’s help, the surgical team’s duties and tasks were re-defined. Technical errors fell by 42% and “information handover” errors between surgery and intensive care fell by 49%. Kier Starmer has said that there will be no more money for the NHS without reform. I’m not suggesting F1 is the answer to all problems but it’s an interesting example of what can be achieved if senior doctors are willing to question their own working practices.
Sadly arrogance plays a part in a lot of medical stuff. They may be highly intelligent and good at the practical stuff in operating but lack what was commonly called in nautical circles in my service day " common dog f**k". If they listened to the more junior staff in their teams then maybe things throughout might improve. Sometimes the shop floor know best through experience.
Well GOSH has been in the news a lot recently with the orthopaedic surgeon causing harm and doing things in surgery that was not necessary . i had to check things as my son has had three surgeries there but thank fully it was not that surgeon and all is well .. But yeh people should listen to juniors as some have good in put . even some of the younger ones working with us make good points and we look at trying to implement some of this . but never tell them its a good idea
It's a great pity that the excellent name that Great Ormond Street has is tarnished by one rogue operator. Organisations would do well to learn from the Services with regard to input or rather not ignoring lower ranks. The backbone of all of the Services is it's middle rank section mainly. These are generally people who have been there and done it in practice and have seen first hand what best practice is. Those that ultimately lead listen to them and learn and those that don't normally fail. It was thus in my time there and I doubt it has changed much since I left.
Wayne Rooney made a positive remark about the Argyle recruitment process recently. He said that the team knew what the budget was and they just got on with it. He didn’t say so, but by implication, that can’t have been how it worked at other clubs he’s been at In contrast to how it works at Argyle. I read a story in last Sunday’s paper about why Eddie Howe has become disillusioned at Newcastle, which has fed rumours of him becoming England manager. Apparently, Howe had been used to operating as a traditional “manager” with a big if not decisive role in deciding on transfers. He’s been pretty successful, bringing in Trippier, Isak, Guimaraes and Gordon among others. More recently, Newcastle appointed Paul Mitchell as Director of Football. Not only has he suggested that Howe should concentrate on what he does best, coaching, but has himself started attending training sessions with his own coterie of staff. The situation has been described as “civil war” in several quarters. A real “turf war”……. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spo...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Owing to a shameful ongoing affection of one member of our household with Liverpool FC, despite being an Argyle season ticket holder, we watched the AC Milan v Liverpool Champions League game on Amazon Prime last night. Football wise it was a good game, with Liverpool running out 1-3 winners after going 1-0 down, seasoned well with traditional Italian skullduggery. However, if ever one thing that goes on in the San Siro ever comes to English football, I shall never watch a game again, ever. There’s some oik in the crowd who’s allowed access to some kind of loud-hailer or similar who leads the “support “. It’s incessant and extremely irritating. The Milan fans outnumber the visitors by about 77,000 to 3,000 and to need amplified assistance is a disgrace rather than a triumph. Don’t they know that? Unusually, a text message was put up at half time telling viewers how to turn off the “stadium sound” so they must have had complaints. I’m not surprised.
pitch side tickets for that game 295 pounds, i have been there when it was full to watch AC v Barcelona champs league quaters amazing atmosphere but all clubs have bumped up tickets this season for the champs league
We scoff at Trump’s bizarre ramblings and wonder how such an idiot could be a candidate for power. We shouldn’t be so supercilious though. We have just such a lunatic in our own country. Boris Johnson says in his latest “book” that he considered sending British armed forces into Holland to seize Covid vaccine when it was in short supply here. Admittedly Johnson will do anything for money as we know, so the truthfulness of anything he says or writes is unreliable to say the least, but can you imagine that? Can you imagine British armed forces entering a NATO ally’s territory and presumably being ready to open fire to get what they came for? Can you imagine the constitutional crisis if the generals deemed the order to be unlawful and refused to obey? Can you imagine British personnel being captured and put on trial? Can you imagine the damage that would have been done to this country’s reputation? Finally, if you did allow such a ludicrous idea to exist in your brain for more than a nanosecond, would you then proudly tell the world about it in a book?
Boris wouldn't know the truth about anything if it fell on him from a great height. Actually I wish something, preferably very heavy, would fall on him from any height for real. I can never quite get over the admissions some people made at the last election that they wished Boris was back. I would bet that the leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party is furious that he has never been elected as an MP and Boris, a natural candidate for his party, made it all the way to Downing Street.
We’ve al seen the news that British Steel is closing its ancient and environmentally harmful blast furnace plant at Port Talbot. This is viewed as an important strategic asset for the UK and after long negotiations, it is to be replaced with a modern arc furnace. This will run on green electricity and secure many jobs in an other wise disadvantaged area. What sound like an ambitious timetable has been set to bring this on stream by 2025. National Grid has advised that a suitable electricity connection will be made available by 2032. Run it by me again how we’re going to charge all those electric cars from 2030 when sales of petrol & diesel vehicles cease?
Yeah, I'm not sure how long ago they said 2025..... nevertheless, 8 years to get electricity into a strategic UK asset to save many jobs?
