Day: March 15, 2011

Let Justice Be Seen To Be Done


Yes !!!

There is nothing else to be said.

 

Raoul Moat¿s henchmen get life for helping gunman during his rampage | Mail Online.

Brian True-May – The 223rd Midsomer Murder


What do the folk at All3Media and the ITV think they are doing ?  Trying to appear to be PC when all they have really done is make total arses of themselves

Midsomer Murders is a show which has been airing since 1997 with over 80 episodes under its belt. It works to a formula and represents a side of Britain that has all but disappeared. The formula obviously works.

Brian True-May was expressing the view that changing that formula would change the character of the show. What had been suggested to him during an interview was tantamount to that the  characters in Coronation Street should speak with plumbs in their mouths, should all sound like they were educated at Eton.  Did anyone suggest that Last of the Summer Wine be changed to reflect a more balanced ethnic mix, of course not.

I think the idiots at All3Media and the ITV  have blundered and they should fess up and withdraw their comments and reinstate Mr True-May.

Midsomer Murders race row: Fans defend show as co-star suggests ‘black gardener’ | Mail Online.

Helpless


Helpless is what I feel as I watch the news of the Japanese people struggling to deal with the disaster that has hit their country. Not only have they had to contend with the initial earthquake and resultant tsunami but they are under threat of further after-shocks and potentially further tsunami. And then when you think things couldn’t get any worse they are now having to confront the very real issue of a nuclear disaster.

Words cannot describe what they are experiencing.

All aspects of what you or I might call normal life have just been wiped out for thousands of Japanese.

As you go about your business today just compare what you are doing and try to compare that to survivors from the fishing village of Yuriage or any of the other devastated towns and villages along the north-eastern coastline of Japan.

Patient Who Bought His Own Food While In Hospital Wins Compensation


Michael Cooper spent two weeks in Southampton General. Rather than eat the hospital provided food,  every day he made his way to the cafeteria for breakfast, lunch and tea. He described the hospital food as “not fit for pigs”.

Both my wife and I had the misfortune to have a stay in the Queen Alexandra (QA) at Portsmouth. The food there is also disgusting.  Between us we experienced some sort of Gammon/Ham which was grey in colour, sandwiches where the butter/marge had been applied to the outside of the sandwich and I was not sure what was on the inside. Lets say it didn’t taste like chicken. A rubber omelette and vegetables that had been cooked to within an inch of turning to mush. In general  all offerings were totally bland, flavorless.

I understand that when you are not well you have a depressed appetite but surely the purpose of the food should be both to sustain and also to encourage you to eat. My experience is that the food supplied does neither.

Mr Coopers stand and court case success is to be admired but it should not be necessary. We keep hearing about the Jamie Olivers of this world working with the hospital caterers to improve the food supplied to patients. But we also keep hearing that the hospital food revolution is failing along with the other hospital services.

I accept that standards in some NHS hospitals are very good. But doesn’t creating a standard mean that all NHS hospitals should perform to the same level.

It isn’t happening !!!