Carole King – Happy Birthday

Being in my fifties, one of the most heavily played albums in my vinyl collection is “Tapestry” by the inimitable Carole King. The vinyl has been relegated to storage as I don’t have a deck to play it on so it has now been replaced by CD and of course MP3.

This album still gives me great pleasure and I apologise as I probably cause all dogs and cats in our neighbourhood to “sing” along with my own vocal renditions

So I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge

Thank you Carole & Happy Birthday

Call NHS Direct to book GP appointments, patients to be told – Telegraph

This is total bollocks.

I can’t even get a non-emergency appointment to see a doctor when I’m stood in my doctors surgery. I’m told to call up on the day I would like to be seen !!!

If this is the sort of service I get now just how much better do you think it will be if I have to ring NHS Direct ?

Well I’ll tell you….. It will be 10,000 % worse.

This will be as good as all those other centralised call centre operations that we already have to deal with.

It stinks.

Call NHS Direct to book GP appointments, patients to be told – Telegraph.

Prisoners will get the vote, Kenneth Clarke says

Once again we prepare to kowtow to the faceless bureaucrats, of the EU & The European Court of Human Rights, who dictate to us how we should behave. Slowly but surely our national identity and our nations right to self-determination is being eroded.

The criminals that inhabit our prisons carried out crimes on British soil so it should be British courts and the British Government that decide their punishment.

Equally, it should be up to us the British people, through our duly elected representatives that decide if these criminals can have the vote.

My view is that they jettisoned their rights when they broke the law. By breaking the law they effectively stuck a finger up at normal decent law-abiding folk. So they don’t have the right to vote.

Given all the other problems that this country has, I do not believe that we should be wasting time and funds debating this.

Its time for Ken Clarke to stand up and tell the EU to butt out

Prisoners will get the vote, Kenneth Clarke says – Telegraph.

Shock, Horror, Internet Not Private !!!

When will the message get through to all users of todays technology with particular emphasis on blogs and Twitter……

If you publish anything on the internet it is almost a given that it becomes public property.

If you don’t want anyone to know what you are thinking don’t put it into your blog. Don’t tweet it. I think civil servant, Sarah Baskerville, has finally taken that message on board.

Twitter messages not private, rules press watchdog – Telegraph.