And Now The Royal Baby Mug!
Today, the ultimate Christmas present for your Republican friends has been launched – The Royal Baby Mug.
Read about it here.
The First Train Leaves At 7:11
It would appear that the first Overground train between Highbury and Islington station and Clapham Junction station, by the new extended East London line, leaves on December 9th at 07:11.
I’ll be there. Even if I get on at Dalston Junction station.
Nursing Care In Hospital
It is being reported, that nurses are calling for more compassionate care in hospital.
I’m 65 and last year I collapsed and ended up in hospital. It was a teaching hospital and the doctor asked if I wouldn’t mind being used for interviewing practice by medical students.
It made a miserable time, almost enjoyable! Especially, as some students were attractive female ones.
Do other hospitals encourage their medical and nursing students to do this? It certainly, is a good way to get them up to speed in an important and perhaps neglected part of their training.
Medical Advances
With all the fuss about the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy, it makes me wonder if C had a similar problem in a third pregnancy soon after our second son was born. She was feeling dreadful and was being sick every morning, which all made her feel she was pregnant. She was and then had an early miscarriage. She always put it down to the baby being female and that she couldn’t carry girls, but of course in the 1970s no-one knew any better. She then went on to have our third son.
I suppose today, she might had that third baby earlier, as medical science has moved on so much.
In the 1960s and 1970s, you seemed to meet a lot more couples, where there had been strings of miscarriages. One American couple, where I worked with the husband, had given up trying to have a second child, as they couldn’t afford the care in the United States. Then in England, the wife got pregnant again and by going into hospital for most of her pregnancy, she was able to have a healthy baby.
And Now Savings Rates Go Negative!
The FT is now reporting that Credit Suisse is charging savers to keep their money with the bank.
I suppose we’re not there yet, but it seems rates are still going down.
Why Drive With Idiots Like This About?
High-powered black cars always seem to be driven by idiots, like the drivers in this report from the BBC. If I’m nearly run over at my local lights, it’s usually a black car. The last was a Bentley. Luckily for him, my shopping bag didn’t contain anything to throw at him like tomato sauce in a plastic bottle.
But the guys on the M1 weren’t so lucky, as two of them died.
At least on my trip to Bolton at the weekend, I was totally out of the way of idiots like this. In some ways it’s great not to drive any more and let the train take the strain. Or can’t we say that now after Savile?
Did Leveson Use Wikipedia?
The Times today is saying that some passages of Lord Leveson’s report were copied from Wikipedia.
Surprise! Surprise!
Aren’t we all guilty of that. I know, I regularly point to the articles of others. But I try to give the source.
The Can Of Worms That Is Leveson
Shami Chakrabarti would not generally be considered a friend of newspapers and big business, as she is the director of Liberty.
But read this article on the BBC’s web site about her views on Leveson. She feels that any legislation on the press as posed by the enquiry could get entangled in the Human Rights Act.
Tornado Chasing
I’m going Tornado chasing this morning. Not of the weather variety, but the steam engine, will be passing through North London around ten o’clock this morning, all being well. It’s hauling a Christmas shopping trip from Ipswich to Bath and should pass West Hampstead station at 10:00, where it’s stopping to pick up passengers.
It returns at 21:00 tonight.
Dutch Footballer In The S-h-1-T
I first heard this story on Radio 5, where it caused a lot of hilarity. Mainly about the Dutch word, wildpoepen, for which there is no English equivalent.
The story is in full, in the Mirror.
The Anonymous Widower 