Phyllis Is Deep Under Hyde Park, Digging Hard
This article is a good update on how the Crossrail tunnels are progressing.
There doesn’t seem to have been much protesting, so either the company has been lucky or it is doing a good job.
These Must Be EL James’s Builders!
EL James must live here, judging by the builder’s board on the rails outside.
These Must Be EL James’s Builders!
I didn’t see any other signs of dark secrets. The front door seemed to be painted in fifty shades of grey.
A £100 Button On A Nationwide Cashpoint
I needed to get some money out this morning, so I went to a Nationwide Cashpoint in Kings Cross Station. After keying in my pin, it offered me the usual choice, but with a special £100 button.
As that was what I was going to draw out, I just touched it and got my money!
How sensible!
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.
I Don’t Believe It!
I’ve just checked the trains for Saturday to see if I can get to Ipswich for the Millwall game. And there are no buses, but a train all the way there and back.
Does this mean they’ve finished the upgrading of the catenary?
When I checked earlier in the year, this match was still down as one with buses.
Or did they take what I said seriously and feel that Millwall and Ipswich Town fans on buses together wouldn’t be a good thing.
After all, Greater Anglia are still saying here on their web site, that there is engineering work over the weekend. But none during the day on Saturday. Let’s hope they don’t drop a few spanners and bring back the dreaded buses.
Clever Tricks Improve Breast Scans
I like this story from the BBC’s web site.
One of the keys to fighting cancer is good diagnosis and the article shows how being clever with scientific, engineering and mathematical tricks, X-rays can be improved.
We’ll see a lot more of this type of innovation in the next few years and it’ll help in all sorts of fields and not just medicine.
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?
The Anonymous Widower 