Alistair Rolleston

This morning I was randomly thinking of BSG (as one does) and man if Apollo saying "this is the CAG, launch the alert fighters" into that old time-y handset isn't one of the coolest things ever

"They will bury you three feet under because you have only ever been half a man" - tumblr post about a cat nicking food

"When God sings with his creations will a turtle not be part of the choir?" - insane poetry to find in a TWEET

"You cannot kill me in a way that matters" - a tumblr post about mushrooms has no business going this hard

Found a video last night of Words That Go Hard from Places of Silliness (youtube comments, tweets, tumblr posts and the like) and it got my brain fizzing in such a particular way

It's October 19th.

yea that tracks.

Sometimes I wonder where my life is going and then I remember The Pitt season 2 is only 2 months away

An internet search with the result "How to forget something horrible you saw on the internet"

... Stranger in the Alps might be a perfect 10. Listened to it this morning again. Not only no skips, but every song is unique and vibrant.

Always amuses me that other cultures react in horror to this, an outstanding lunchtime staple.

A coal tit at a bird feeder

A blue tit at a bird feeder

A great tit at a bird feeder

A european robin sitting on the ground

One of the perks of being off sick has been getting to look at the bird feeder out of the window. There's been a lot of visitors for this time of year! A coal tit, blue tit, great tit and a robin. There's also been house sparrows, wood pigeons, jackdaws, ring collared doves and even a few crows

Jeez, leave some meat for the rest of us

Firm defends raising prices for new Belfast bike-rental scheme The cost of a 20 minute pay-as-you-go cycle is almost double the price it used to be.

Use sustainable travel more! Also we're increasing the price of bike rental 480%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The NHS only continues to function because of the love and care of immigrants.
Anyway, rant over. It's such a small thing where I'm involved but it made me have thoughts (9/9)

We have nowhere near enough GPs and instead of investing in the service, trying to attract people here and paying doctors enough that they want to stay in the country we have people marching in the streets rallying against the very people who are the only reason the NHS functions at all. (8/9)

Who might have a waiting list short enough that you're seen in good time. The whole system is based on luck now, not need. (7/9)

It's been underfunded to such a degree that we're already operating under a chance based system if you can't afford to go private. Call early enough and you might get a GP appointment. Who might have time to see you face to face. Who might be able to refer you to a specialist. (6/9)

Now I need a fit note for work - this is a required document. There's no option for me not to get one. But this morning really drove home to me that in the UK free for all healthcare is basically dead (5/9)

I was told to phone back tomorrow "as close to 0830 as possible" to try and get an appointment. I asked if I could book an appointment now for tomorrow and was told no (to be fair I was fully expecting that answer). The receptionist was nothing but lovely and pleasant with me. (4/9)

It took half an hour for the staff at the surgery to work through the queue to get to me. I told them why I was calling and that I needed a fit note. They said that I would need to talk to the GP for that and that they had no more appointments today and there was nothing they could do. (3/9)

This morning I called my GP surgery at 0829, a minute before their phone lines opened. I was met with a recorded message telling me the surgery was closed. By the time I had hung up and re-dialed it was 0830. I was number 40 in the phone queue. (2/9)

I've been ill for the past week - nothing too major don't worry - but I'm at the point now where for work I need to get a note from a doctor explaining why I've been off. This is a very normal thing in the UK. (1/9)

There's a better world where Gordon Brown was not destroyed for correctly identifying Gillian Duffy as a bigot.

Reader, he won.

Apropos of nothing it has been extremely sad watching my old church slide into the far right

Whew it has been A Day for unfriending people on Facebook

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"