NHS

Over the past year I have spent several weeks as an in patient in hospital, firstly I was seriously ill and the nursing I received was second to none, but then the problems started that was the horrendous food served to patients, ordering roast beef and roast potatoes I received what is called "steamplicity" so I would welcome some one telling me just how do roast potatoes are roast potatoes when they are in fact steamed???, they were in my meal in fact white they may have seen an oven at some time but it must be just in passing as they can't have stopped in the oven for long,  but as all the food served has gone through the microwave steamer it is mainly dry, nasty taste and some of it unpalatable, it is not surprising that so many elderly patients loose weight while in the hospital, on my ward I was told that one patient had gone to the hospital restaurant for breakfast, dinner and tea each day because he could not stand the food,  I only wished I was fit enough too do the same but unfortunately I was hooked up to too many machines and drips to allow me to go.
Food is a form of medicine good food means quicker recovery rubbish food means longer recovery consequently longer stays in hospital, the problem in my eyes is the fact the some hospitals have companies that import ready made meals, then the wards if they should order a sandwich for a late admission costs £6 two slices of bread with just a little filling, the other problem is the fact porters working in my hospital work for a separate company not the hospital, so when you need to be moved it takes some time to get a porter allocated to the job, finally to be discharged means a long delay waiting for pharmacy to get the needed drugs for you and then there is the discharge letter, in my case told at 9.30am I could go home it was 5.15pm before I went out the door, spending many hours sitting in the  ward waiting room to be allowed to go!!, so from a patient point of view really good treatment totally let down by everything else it is so sad, I live in dread for the next time the ambulance is called and they say the words we are taking you to hospital, panic pervades!!!!.     

The World - Brexit

Another day in this mad world, we have so many people in the world today who believe they have all the answers, but do they?. sadly NO, Putin inflicting death and destruction without fear, who would stop him?, No one, so more and more will die because of his and Assad's craving for power, no matter who suffers, we should all remember this over Christmas, I weep for those poor kids shoe less, no coats or in a lot of cases no accommodation, can you look at your kids and think "could you allow this to happen to yours??".                                                

Then the SNP!!!!, just what does she think she is doing??, does she really think Scotland would be better off in the EU and out of the UK, if she does she does not have the sense she was possibly born with, it is funny just how people react to power, out the window goes democracy in its place demands or I will chuck my doll out of the pram, England and Wales just could not afford to have an EU country on our boarder, just remember free movement of people if you should decide to remain!, I think that a new wall might be needed across the England / Scotland boarder to keep illegal immigrants out of the rest of the UK, Brexit is here no matter what, so Scotland get on with the decision of the majority, the minority can't have a change just because they are not happy with the result!!!.

Brexcit Again

I see that the EU are behaving abysmally it just goes to show how constricted it has become, nasty Italians dictating to us how we may or may not leave, the reality is we voted to leave, it is not for the EU to throw the dolly out of the pram, I read that we will have to keep paying into the EU budget for years to come, why is that??, if we will not be allowed free trade and will not be a member why should the tax payer in this country pay in when we will not get anything out??, just shows what a bunch of crooks they are, much of what is decided by the EU is not logical in fact many times it has been stupidity only a fool wold suggest it but they do and force countries to abide by their decisions, I see it as an insult that many British people regard themselves as European, that is a problem in itself, we live in the UK we are either Irish, Welsh, Scottish English, and not forgetting all the people in the many island's around our coast, it is sad that certain people in Parliament just can't cope with the referendum, when you look about you can see in many places there is more work than before the Brexit vote, in reality we are doing all right, the only shortage that I have seen is land workers, at farms in my area, I understand just why people do not want to do the work in the fields, I have personally done this work and it is a killer, worse it was then for very low payment, this is why some farmers are so against Brexit, if it should be that the workers from the EU cant come to do the job the farmers will have to pay the going rate and that is not going to happen, I just can't understand why all this attempted disruption of Brexit is going on, to leave we need a common sense agreement, if the government is happy to allow underpaid workers into the country then surely there would be a way of allowing these workers in for a set period of time, what many people in this country do not understand is the vast millions of pounds leave this country every month to many countries throughout the world, that is money earned here but not spent in our shops meaning a loss of income for shops and a loss of tax to the treasury, time to sup[port the UK, the disrupter's should use their right to work in another country they might feel better and at least will leave us in peace.