Saturday into Chester

Scoot down the M56 park at the Little Roodee and walk into town. Squinted at a few websites looking for a decent aleouse. The Albion appealed initially but glad we didnt go as it looked like a unionist stronghold. We ended up in the Marlborough Arms decent stuff a pint of Flowers and a pint of London Pride which was better. Food was a tad dissapointing to me. Jeans stew looked good.
Round the rather cool roman walls then back home. Chill in the evening watching some trash The Rock which made me smile.

The Duncan Society

The Duncan Society Some interesting speakers - Mr Wanless and Dr Adshead (with whom I am sitting on an expert panel ) coming up

Inland Revenue: Home page

Inland Revenue: Home pagenot working grrr

Fairvue Central >> Bloggies >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards

Fairvue Central >> Bloggies >> Fourth Annual Weblog AwardsSome corkers in here - get on and vote.

Saturday reflection

A bloody busy week. No time to blog - kieran passes me a challenge.
1. What is the total amount of music files on your computer? 2000

2. The last CD you bought is: Tom Jones and Jools Holland'

3. What is the song you last listened to before reading this message? Close to the edge

4. Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.

Enjoy yourself - Guy Lombardo/specials/jools
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
And You and I - Yes
Rock n Roll Led Zep
The Ancient- giants under the sun - yes



5. Who are you going to pass this stick to? (3 persons) and why?
Mc Naught - get an anonymous blog - you know you want to
Vineeta - write it down
Nell - you never did your blog did you.

to be continued

Friday - vodafone

into the works met with vodafone. Busy day getting things sorted. Pick dave up drop him off - home pick him up drop him off, jean off out to Jalons. Interviewed by a daily mail journo - whilst getting changed for foto shoot. V Strict dress code no jeans notrainers no all in black. Photographer arrives mid interview is content with brew. Has lens problems turns out he is the bro in law of a nursing officer from winwick - my alma mater.

Thursday Its my birthday

44 today feeling old and grey. Into wok handy after picking up some cakes. Very happy day, off to see psychiatrist in afternoon at moss street. Good progress and he leaves meds as they are arranges the early intervention recognition stuff. Then its off home for tea and out to get dave drop him off, back home, interviewed by journo for piece in Nursing standard and pick Dave up later drop himat my mums. Then its home and jean and I nip down the fiveways for a pint.
Happy day.

Wednesday

Meeting with the auditors.

Tuesday - AHP

Off to AHP meeting in Sefton at Netherton once again I am impressed with the enthusiasm of them as a staff group. Then its back to the works for a meeting with Val. The news from the Royal aint brilliant Maria, Daves partners kidney transplant hasnt worked.

Monday in to work then working from home

coz jk is fixing the boiler top man.

Sunday - top man jk

Heating still a prob jk will sort monday.
Ruth Paul and Bfor lunch I go for a walk in the afternoon.

Doing Less Harm, musings from Anytown NHS Trust: Last orders at the bar

Doing Less Harm, musings from Anytown NHS Trust: Last orders at the barWonder whats happened to the Doc.

Saturday Ally into town

Me up early JK fixes timer girls up late, me load care with rubbish (thoough on reflection I am not clear where it was from) just seems to accumulate. I have remembered it was the crap from under the stairs we had to remove to give JK access top the boiler. Finding a torch was hard too. We now have two maglites. So the rubbish an old brush, paint (numerous tins and assorted carp that needs binning. Many ancient things I have kept just in case.
Tesco arrives and main delivery is sorted I whip mum to the link to look unsuccessfully for a phone. Dont think much else happened. Oh except I found a pool in the boiler cupboard- JK will lookf tomorrow I am sure.

Friday heating Blues

seems to have been a theme though I am too cold to post it. JK is on the case and has been all week as one bit is fixed another bit dies. The evening finds our pump replaced and me in the loft - emptying solutions into the wee tank (expansion (apparently)) goood job yer man was there else I would have been through the ceiling and contaminating the hot water. Evening off to Beas.

Thursday

Pauline from Hammy House for IGtoolkit meeting. She is an expert - and that always reassures me. No bull no messing just knows it and enjoys it, she has enthusiasm for what most (including this creative wanderer) think is hard graft. She makes light work of it. She smokes so we combine fag breaks with a walk and I drop her at Hammy via a trip to M&S to pick up some crab for me dinner. Top stuff enjoyed talking RSS and blogs to Kieran. Get feedreader for blackberries working in the library. top stuff.
Then up to the boardroom for Heads of Informatics or IM&T depending which side of the tracks you is from. I cant decide if its cooler not to come. Best I refain from too much comment here.
Home late. Ally is wet the rain is horrific. I take one of her friends home to a road near where nanna lives. Turns out I went to junior school with her mum - scary, stuff.
Chill later.

Wednesday at my desk

In the works lunched at the Bucks I think - didnt do much at night cept a trip to the bucks with Ally.

heardsaid - "It could be wrong, it could be right."

heardsaid - "It could be wrong, it could be right." Like this factoid site.

Blackberry Blues

Still messing with feed reader

Tuesday bit flat and tired

Yesterday was a long day. I had to break it up with a spell in the middle of posting. So the weather looked grim when I got up a sort of frozen snow and hail blanket on the wimdscreen. No doubt in my mind that craig would cance and that the support group tonight looked well dodgy. I was concentrated on basics at the. Ranch then off the bucks for unch with kim. After lunch its down to see anita at licvingston drive she is in charge of mosaoic and a dude with an interesting accent and a more interesting background.
Then back to the works and head down.
Home and peeps have been tring to get me. Ring mr dexter and we agree tonight is a non starter. Go for tea at greenbank and enjoy. Then its a great meeting. Top of the shop was the appearance of the welsh wizard ritchie. Great stuff. Late anight and home.

Monday

Slept iin relatively later than I should. Jk arrived at 8.20 I was only just into my routine. We left for the midlands at about 9.20 after a natural break. M56, M6 off at spaghetti junction and an easy ride down nether brum. We found the woodlands crem and cem and then went to macdonalds. Then back to the crem, for Fayes funeral. Faye was a member on WLSinfo and deeply impressed many people by her willingness to appear on BBCs Fat Nation. I had spoken to her several times and she made a lasting impression on me. She dies 6 months after her op from something unrelated. Her passing has had a deep and lasting impression on the WLSinfo and I am struggling to find words to some it up.
The funeral is packed JK and I and four other members of the charity attend. Horses and glass carriage, I want that. Her husband Richard speaks at the funeral and the service is loverly, and feels positive at this time of loss. Then we are off to a club for a buffet and a post funeral wake. My sobriety bites hard though the promise of a blizzard on the M6 puts paid to any thoughts of booze. JK and I pay on respects to Richard before hitting the road. An easy journey back with a snack stop at Knutsford. Knakkered at night.

Sunday

Quiet day.

Don't blog your way into trouble

Don't blog your way into trouble Well worth a read Loopyboy

Telegraph | News | 'Abysmal progress' over NHS patient choice

Telegraph | News | 'Abysmal progress' over NHS patient choice Hmmmmm

[Now playing: Led Zeppelin-Live-Last Concert-12Stairway To Heaven(7-7-80 Berlin) - - (14:57)]

Class stuff and the media player plug in works top stuff boy

w.bloggar version 4 is out

I got mine this is a test

Saturday night

Bog all on the telly, M&S lasange no lottery and chillin out. TIVO sea of souls an watch the SAS thingy for pure crap escapism. Mood feeling better for sure.

Government Response to the Health Select Committee’s Report on Obesity

good news lurking in here Thanks to Kieran who sent this. printer is being arsey so cant read in detail but - this looks good - Recommendation 47 (paragraph 379): The Gover nment must devote
protected resources to ensuring that bariatric surgery is available to all those
who need it, and should issue guidelines for the strategic development of
services across the country, to eliminate the current postcode provision of
obesity surgery.

Mail to blogger its unreliabe

So. Friday into the works sort out a practices upgrade. Then its prescribing teams docking stations and davids laptop. Few probs need sorting as well. Lunch with kim in the bucks. A sort of cheese staek paninni. We are most amused by the new employees neither of whom fit the usual profile. Firstly is the immaculatgely groomed and very efficient maitre d' he orchestrates the brigade. Then there's pauline who's loads older thab the usual barrista. What is a barrista anyway - she looks like she must be someones mum. Some of the barristas look like the need parental accompaniement. Then its down to hammy for a meeting with caroline. Goes well and I brief her fully on my current projects. Then its down to the ibraryu where I see sally with her profligate (yes you lamb boy) profligate blackberry. Tesco groceries and then diesel and coal/logs. Phone message from jean reveals she forgot to get chicken out so I swoop to somerfield. Home and I produce a top chicken stir fry with noodles and pak choi, after completing hunter gatherer role by building open fire.
Jean and ally off to beas I have to stay home and tend the logs. Catch vineeta on msn. She aint been following the blog. Chill out aly has a dreadful film on dvd from blockbuster school of rock.

Saturday JK strikes again

Top man that he is JK arrives and does the deed with a top central heating service job. New timer which he got from replacing his own and a stuck pump which involved bleeding and buckets. Top man I don't even understand the first principles of the fizzics of central heating. He also does me wipers in preparation for driving down to fayes funeral on monday. He will be good company and we can sort a few things out for the charity. Top man he though he doesn't think I am an idiot just inept at DIY. Poor sod is waiting for his revision and hernia repair.

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog: RIM Blackberry Mobile Feed Reader - beta 2

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog: RIM Blackberry Mobile Feed Reader - beta 2 Want this.
to make things easier.

Thursday (cont)

Blog gets a bit out of order. So trying to catch up work in the works and then off to the post office to pick up the WLSinfo mail then down to Hammy house. Arrive at 1pm for a meeting with the gang from Vodafone no one arrives so I am a tad perplexed. Ring Brian he says its 1.30 vodafone boys turn up at 1.10 apologetic. then brian turns up followed considerably later by doc mc graeme and john billo.
Tis acronym city the most interesting being MVPN, I think they are talking about Nappie turns out its MAPI. Some very interesting stuff and then its off to see Sam at CPA. Her Catherine and Susan in truth. Home and then chill.

SPAM the official UK web site

SPAM the official UK web sitebeing named after an email nuisance cannot be good for branding.

Quiz night

Its the middle of jan so it must be christmas quiz night at winwick. I sccot away from the woes of clare towers and the difficult grieving on WLSinfo to the insulated worlsd of winwick staff social club. A real remnant of victorian social history, a working mans club. We have a great night mad dog adair phyllis rowe deaf marharet and deaf ken. Deafness makes a pub quiz hard there is no doubt. Tough questions tonight a grand buffet and a bumper raffle. I am pleased to win a hand turned fruit bowl which I shall display on my desk wherever that may be.

Thursday AM

I pull myself from my pit. My mental health problems require a late night late start to be most beneficial, my digestive system can with a trailing wind allow safe exit from the house about 55 mins awakening.

Netherton then auditors

Phsyios in netherton they are the most cramped staff I ever seen,not much we can do for them but willing to see how we can work together. Then its over to sayers for soup and hot roll wanted granary but the request fell on stoney ground, Back the works quick lunch and then kathy and conor from MIAA, I have decided to show thenm I sadder than them - goodplan.

Tuesday was in annual or carers leave

Start the morning by spending an hour in the Mather Avenue waiting room with mum. She passes loud opinion on everyone within earshot. We get in to see Frank and he has a ayoung student called JJ. poor sod my mum is an awful historian with multiple problems and Frank makes it look easy. No change in meds for mum and worse news for her no "bottle" a magic bottle of patent medicine which would be a cure all. Off to Tesco and see Jean she is fasting prior to a hysteroscopy at the womens under GA. We arrive at the OPD in a bad shower book in and hang around. Then we are in shock 1 - local not GA not good nearly abort but go ahead, in we go i faint, jean faints, it gets a bit comedic. we get fed and sent home sheepishly.I make tea and pamper.

Motorcycle Funerals, a dignified final ride by motorcycle sidecar hearse

Motorcycle Funerals, a dignified final ride by motorcycle sidecar hearse Tempted by this geezers service.

Monday playing managers

In to work and the departmental heads meeting tis a tad tedious but I mention NPfIT and Mobile phones. Deep Joy. Then a few things to do then off to Hammy see the ever cool lyndsey dyer and pick peter up and back to the ranch. Sort out an upgrade for a practice. Then its a business case meeting, strangely enjoying getting things moving.
Meet with Sam a real blog pioneer who never kept it up. She got a funky pink mini-ipod for Chrimbo. I point out the benefits of firefox, though I note the websense at work wont allow the download it does however allow the the beta to upgrade itself from the same site. How odd. I point out the benefits of anonymous blogging We discuss starting one up but we'd get sussed rapido. Sort an appointment for me at Docs tomorrow and Jean is in as a daycase at the bastion of womens health. Hope they take a more structured approach to gynae than they do to following the NHS website naming rules. (tut tut - bet you can see the cricket scores on the web and get hotmail too). Drop Sam at CPA which is shut so I run her home and then its home for me. Bust but charity committee meet doesnt happen few apols. Starting watching this trash so I end up blogging. Sobriety day 8 BTW.

Sunday nice lunch shame about the time team

Off to Ruth and Pauls for roast beef lunch - very nice. Off to mums she is improving greatly not sure if she needs GP later in week. Home and Time Team Nether Poppleton a sort of saxon one - I prefer Romano Britain. Then its tea and jean off to the kirk. We catch up with Sea of our souls (my amendment. I like Bill Patterson, but this is spooky.

deviantART: Kasteo

deviantART: Kasteo Noia my new theme I am using in firefox.

Saturday busy at home

Starts with the clearing of the accumulated crap heap that was our patio into the back of the Zafira withs its patented Flex 7 which can move from people carrier to load carrier in 15 secs according to this gubbins takes me about 3-4 mins and a lot of tutting. And it dont mention the bits you have left over at the end of the process. So Ally into town me to tip then into Garston somerfield for their cheap chicken and a few other essentials. After lunch its the annual Christmas tree having fought before chrimbo and knakkered myself several times in the process. Its out of the house and has been blown by the gales. We wrestle that into the car, still full of last years pine needles and the sand from Brittany, the year before. Conclusive to me that pine needles prevent tidal erosion. Then back home and I apply myself to the woes of the WLSinfo forums a long search thro snitz leads me to the decision that we need to migrate from Access to MySQL. So I download Access Dump deep joy. Off it goes converting the access file into a MySql file 7 hours later and a lot of groans later it emerges.
Ouch now what do I do.
I aint got the time to learn how to do it.
In the mean time I write a 300 word commentary for an aricle snappily entitled

Bariatric Surgery for the Obese Diabetic Patient: The Effect on Diabetes and Important Psychological Considerations

for Practical Diabetes International - What? I prefer the sister publication - impractical diabets parochial?? Still its a gig.
I need to look up two references so I jump into aditus and find Title
Current status of bariatric surgery in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Source
Obesity reviews {Obes-Rev} 2004 Feb, VOL: 5 (1), P: 69-78, Refs: 69, ISSN: 1467-7881.
Author(s)
Pinkney-J, Kerrigan-D.

and

Pories WJ, Swanson MS, MacDonald KG, Long SB, Morris PG, Brown BM, Barakat HA, deRamon RA, Israel G, Dolezal JM and Dohm L. Who Would Have Thought It: An Operation Proves to be the Most Effective Therapy for Adult-Onset Diabetes Mellitus. Annals of Surgery 222(3):339-352, September 1995
Let the editor do the sorting I guess.
Then All brings smart home so we sit on the bed watching Everon beat Plymouth and laffing at the Mancs getting a draw.
Later I watch the trashy but escapist ultimate farce starring grant from eastenders.
Sleep in till 10.45 on Sunday must have needed it.

Look back sans anger

A busy interesting week. Totally confused as to orientation in time following the holiday sunday fest. Return to work and plenty to keep me busy. Have a meeting with Val who is danger of being one of the best gaffers I have ever worked for. Straighten things out and get level - better feeling. Call in at mums.
Wednesday Ally back at school work continues on much the same theme. I am in danger of getting seriously enthusiastic about AHPs( allied Health professionals) following my meeting with Anita from Mosaic. Home via mums improvement noted. Work thursday starts with AHP leads meet - an enthusiastic bunch. Carry with mobile telephony work followed by training steering group in the afternoon. A difficult meeting not helped by reluctant attenders and a series of conflicting dates and times that people believe it is starting on. Then its home and a meeting with charlie tom dave julie and claire re the wlsinfo trek. Long evenin, which gets longer. ER returns and I have strange deja vu for the first ten minutes, until jean reminds me that that aint ep 1 its the last one of the previous series. Phew, premonition aint happened yet.
Friday partial working from home. Home and busy on WLSinfo. Green light for Karen from LSE's project (details to follow) and I start to contemplate serious paper writing (and presentation).
Its Saurday now and I plan to get things together then drop Ally in town.
Deep Joy.
Oh and a trip to Somerfield.

GrandRounds

RangelMD.comWell worth a look.

Instapundit.com

Instapundit.comSome leminently readable if opinionated stuff in here.

One for Dave B

Saw this in the Guardian

Classic men's max-cap for UK & Europe delivery - extra large baseball cap in XL

Classic men's max-cap for UK & Europe delivery - extra large baseball cap in XL: "Classic max-cap in sand
The classic men's max-cap with an enlarged crown for a comfortable fit available in sand with forest green trim and self-coloured logo." I have always struggled with the size of my head, and now thanks to t'internet.

1998 Sikorsky S76C+ currently listed on Aircraft Shopper Online

1998 Sikorsky S76C+ currently listed on Aircraft Shopper Online: "
" I'll have one for chrimbo just 6million.

The Policeman's Blog

The Policeman's Blog tickles me in parts.

How many sundays in one week

It actually was Sunday today. Went up to Maghull yesterday Billy and Bernadettes new year bash,. Familie s eh bless. Home and to bed.
New years eve we have ruth and paul and bea round.
Festives complete - rounded off by another defeat for Everton. 5-2 to spurs Rebecca will be pleased.
So today is Sunday and Mum isnt well So I get called round. The old lady aint well. After a bit of persuasion she agrees to a visit from the emergency doctor. Very good doc impressed then its off to the local emergency chemist in London Road. Deep Joy.
Jean picks it up two hours later - a busy gaff for sure.

Pete's Poles Page

Pete's Poles Page Petes poles fascinating thanks to paul for this.

LongMan Records Shop

LongMan Records Shopsaw these on jools and fancy a bit to be onest.