Lyn Whitfield

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Next Halloween, I will go in fancy dress as "60 year old nhs dr trying to use Cerner EPR during strike days"

We did the Covid 19 survey right through the pandemic. Forms, swabs, blood tests. First few goes with the scalpels got blood all over the kitchen: but barely any in the tubes. Collectors stood in the heat at the front door shouting tips. Improved though. And got vouchers.

Don't start with 300 PowerPoint slides!

I"ve had two emails from Ocado saying I can book my Christmas food shop slot. I am not engaging.

Hopeless. Craven.

A picture of a brown sheep being examined by a handler in a white coat. Above a headline that starts: Horse euthanised...

@apiln.bsky.social. This one is not a cat. It's also not a horse. It's a sheep, mate (From the Hampshire Chronicle).

YouTube video by Michael Spicer Football is Back!

football is back!

At least Chamberlain got a piece of paper

What version of Microsoft Windows is powering this bus display? (Nothing released this century, I'd guess).

A yellow courgette. Rather a big one. Left unattended on a plant for a couple of days, with inevitable consequences...

Lemons and pistachio sugar in a blender. Courgette cake base.

A square courgette cake topped with lemon icing and pustachio dust.

'Tis the season for courgette recipes...

Aw. Name?

Oh, locally, you want physio, you pay. My point was more specific. GPs have to refer to "orthopaedic choice" which refers to surgeons. I guess it's meant to keep people out of surgery. If you need surgery, it's just pointless delay. But as it's there, why not keep it involved to get/keep ppl fit?

Just had a hip op. To add to your point, the NHS adds to waits by forcing patients to physio run MSK service first. Adds weeks. Yet when surgery scheduled, they vanish. Why no prehab, as they are there?

France: 0, Charles V: 1

Urgh. #Winchester in dire need of climate adaptations.

Added to which, neither have books, and Poirot, in particular, often lets the culprit go off to kill themselves, as his case would never stand up in court.

Very unlikely. Care homes are run by large, highly leveraged groups, or families. Groups will reduce standards or exit. Others are barely afloat. Higher wages, training, etc, would require more money from councils already being bankrupted by care costs. And govt doesn't want to go near that mess.

Not exactly Tokyo. But our scrubby local cherry tree is doing its thing for two days #CherryBlossom.

Problem in journalism as well. AI can churn weather reports, or fete write ups, or local business puffs. But how do juniors learn the formats that will allow them to handle complex stories if they do (never mind spot a story, ask the question the slop is never going to include, etc).

Bride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Bridget Jones...

Plot point in Bleak Housecas well.

Awful. Dispiriting. Terrifying.

Never seen Masterchef... in the Professionals, the pop ups and chefs tables are part of the process.

1. The presence of a camera crew, production team, and one of Karen and Tim probably a bit of a clue.

For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble...

This week Streeting re-cut the New Hospital Programme. DHSC press release: all gping ahead. Reality: most not for at least two Parliaments. Cynical, dishonest, bang in line with the Con approach, and the opposite of delivery. But carry on.