2 October
2013
One of the
birding sites we've fancied visiting is the Lee Valley so later this week we
will be heading down there to just inside the M25 to have a look. Every month Bird Watching magazine lists ten birding site worth a look. This month's issue list part of the Lee
Valley which runs north from the Thames up as far as the Huddleston/Harlow
area. The guide is for an area around
Waltham Abbey. It looks a good site to
visit. If nowt else we should get some
new photos of an area we've not been to before.
The Hussy is
in the News again! This time it's about
the high level of agency nurses they use.
It costs a lot more to use agency staff compared to employing them
directly. However, I have a sneaky
feeling that the agency staff are actually their own nurses working extra
shifts on their day's off. The reason
for that is that there just isn't enough nurses within the NHS to employ the
full quota of nurses. Gangrenous George
who lives next door to the Prime Muppet isn't helping by cutting funds to the
NHS aided and abetted by his cabinet mates who keep changing the way the whole
things run.
Yesterday's
news that they are starting pilot projects to find out how GP surgery's managed with 12 hour opening times along with
weekend opening. Yet one such project
was closed by the current Muppets because it didn't seem to work. Perhaps it was down to the amount of finding
that there was a problem. I like every
over person in the UK want the NHS to be the very best it can be. That means it needs fully funding and if it
means we tax payers have to pay more in tax, well, so be it.
I'm retired
but I still pay tax folks, just like everyone else. Every time I buy a pint of Weddy Wobbler or
buy petrol for my car, I pay tax. I
wouldn't complain so much if that funds used were being spent on education and the
services we all need. I do not like paying
taxes just to cover party political dogma!
As regular
readers will know I graduated from the OU with a honours degree a few years
ago. As I now write crime novels and
five titles available on Amazon, I thought that perhaps I would have a look at
doing one of the OU's creative writing courses.
Well, I did have a look and got a shock, here the URL for one of the 60
point courses ... http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/e303.htm Did
you notice the price of it? I won't be
bothering again.
The Open
University began in the 1970s as a way of allowing anyone to be able to gain a degree. There were no barriers at all. No prior qualifications were need; courses
were presented at a reasonable cost and for some students no charge at all. In addition no student would be barred because
of age, income, religious beliefs, race, colour, gender or sexuality. Anyone could study. That policy now seems to have been reversed
when it comes to income. I can't see
many signing up now considering the price of the courses. My mate Bill Howe says that numbers seem to
be holding up however, but probably because of employers helping with
costs. Well, I can't afford it anyway!
And a photo
is called for ... Seeing as I've been on about the OU here's one for you that was printed in the OU magazine called Sesame ...
Me(with
the camera), Adrian Davies and Yvonne
Price round the table and one of the OUSA Executive Committee standing. This was taken at one of the OU Open Days I
attended.
And a short
funny today ...
To
commemorate the release of the topless photos of Kate Middleton, Royal Doulton
will be releasing a Collector's Edition of two small jugs.
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