tom_widdows

plus concussion and a ruptured spleen

https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a31915611/coronavirus-timeline/

Look out for how far Alan Main kicks the ball in the last minute.

Accupressure Matt and Pillow Got of off amazon for £25 and now onto using it without a t-shirt etc. As you would expect it is not comfotable at the start but by about 10mins in I find myself completely zoning out. Trying to do 40mins a day.

IBI Nightingale apparently. Id like to think break rooms were provided every couple of floors in each quadrant but some genius decided those rooms could be better used for something else (which i understand is very common in existing hospitals). However the design of the A & E Reception makes me doubt that. As for processes and logic being in place, rather than gradually closing the various hospitals this campus was to replace over a couple of years, I understand they just shut those hospitals pretty much immediately forcing hundreds of patients and staff both into a completely new set up with little or no guidance or assistance, and into buildings which were still within the snagging/ defects liability period and fuck me if they havent found some spectacular defects in that place. A common curse of how our wonderful UK works. Qualifications based on paper (ie book learning and exams to get some letters after your name) all to often trump qualifications based on experience (the person who started in the stockroom and worked their way to the boardroom), and allocating the correct time to plan something, and/or backing down, admitting you made a mistake, and re-thinking things which arent working is seen as weak leadership so all to often change finally comes after years of ineffieciency/ failure rather than weeks or months by which time the damage is permanant.

I think that is one of the many curses of being a junior doctor. If you quit it means you quit medicine for good as no health board will touch you again. In the current situation though the NHS workers at least have the safety net of the media being on their side. We the UK population have always needed junior doctors but they and all their frontline NHS colleagues have been taken for granted and treated like shit. Now as Rocket has said several times 'this shits gotten real' all the bad will, 'Im suing the healthboard for calling me fat', 'They are all workshy scroungers for having the gall to take a day off once a month' and so on is suddenly all forgotten. Theres lots of media stories now about how wonderful the public & businesses are being in their support for NHS workers (free stuff, discounts, how many of the general public have volunteered to help them) however where was this goodwill, generosity and public spirit 3months ago? 3 months ago if a Nurse posted a video of themselves crying in their car because they'd reached their breaking point I have my doubts it would have made it much further than a facebook feed or a one show episode. Said Nurse would potentially have faced disciplinary proceedings, and eventually been forced out though internal bullying 3 months ago the above article would have made the left leaning papers but the right wing ones would have had so many counter stories from 'other' doctors who said everything was fine. The doctor would then potentially have faced a similar fate to the nurse. 3 months ago the best so many NHS frontline staff could expect would be sporadic box of chocolates/ bunch of flowers from the odd grateful family. The so called 'super hospital' in Glasgow has lots of Nurses stations but hardly any break rooms, and the break rooms available are 10mins walk from many Nurses stations. Not exactly ideal when each Nurse only gets a 15min break so by the time they are 3/4 of the way to the break-room, they need to turn round and go back to work. Rules state they cant have hot drinks or have/ prepare food at the nurses station so what the fuck are they supposed to do?! Kudos to the Architects on that one. Tangent: At the end of my 1st year at Architecture school the tutor marking my final project - a kindergarten in Duthie Park - criticised/ chastised me for laying out the building based on information gathered from a former Nursery teacher. According to her it was my job to tell client's what they needed and how they should use a building. That Glasgow hospital is a fine example of the sort of logic, arrogance and ignorance in the Architecture world which plays right into the hands of people who value price and asthetics over facilities and how a building will be used. There was a doctor who called into 5live a couple of weeks back with his own version of the guardian article and just before he hung up he said something along the following lines. 'It is great that everyone is offering free stuff and discounts but when all this is over all I would like is - a Room where my nurses can sit and have a break - Free tea or coffee facilities in that room - Facilities to store and make our own food rather than vending machines with inflated prices that are all to often broken or havent been filled. - To not have to put up posters in the wards and receptions asking patients & visitors to please not spit, shout at, or assault our staff.' All the rounds of applause in the world will be worthless if, should the virus be beaten, we just let the NHS go back to what it was & still is, which is what the tories & right wing merceneries want it to be.

Id be happy if people understood the difference between 2 feet and 2 metres.

Lower non league english football seasons declared null & void (Men's & Women's leagues) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52069879 Be interesting to see if the FA change their mind if the number of clubs willing to challenge grows even further. Personally I think this shows the utter contempt the FA really has for the 'grass roots' they keep banging on about being so important

Especially given this 'magical'80% wages promise still hasn't been organised and the consensus is companies must pay all the money out first and then claim it back from HMRC. How many companies out there have enough cash in the bank to pay all their outgoings (even if its only 80% staff wages) with no income for 3-6months on the promise they will get the money back eventually? Can't say I trust the banks to help in this situation

No 'todays' but BBC have been showing FA Cup rewind the last couple of weekends the first 2 episodes are on Iplayer now (currenlty on the 2nd bottom row of the page) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006xv04/the-fa-cup Love old school FA cup football and watching John Barnes in his Watford days is a joy

My linkedin feed is full if people either posting or liking posts with pictures of Johnson and Sunak along the lines of 'these men are working tirelessly to save the country and we thank them for it' I'm giving Sunak a bit of a break at the moment (not too much because his brain wiring is still set to Tory) but as for Johnson..... Thankfully there are plenty of responses about how long it has taken them to get their act together, and how they still have done fuck all to help the self employed but what I havent see is a response along the lines of ITS THEIR FUCKING JOB AND EVERYTHING 'POSITIVE' THEY ARE DOING IS BEING DONE ABOUT A WEEK AFTER IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE AND WITH EXTREME RELUCTANCE/ A GUN POINTED TO THEIR HEAD.

Someone did that in braehead a week ago. Hopefully the supermarkets are taking the hint.

The apparent practice of profiteering in times of stress has now expanded to go after the owners of takeaways etc. Last week people were posting videos and pics of small shops or ebay sellers selling toilet role, hand sanitiser etc at vastly inflated prices and now it appears this is spreading to wholesalers and it may hit people like my mate who runs my local takeaway. He is keeping a close eye his preferred cash & carry, meat suppliers etc but being a rational person his attitude is if they double the price on something he will just remove it from his menu, a bit like the supermarkets now cutting down on the number of product lines they sell. In other news campervans are arriving in the Highlands at a fairly large rate (alot around where my elderly parents live) as people try to 'escape' handily forgetting (or just selfishly ignoring) that jumping ship from urban areas with the largest number of cases is a golden ticket for the virus spreading all over the country. Also unless you are Rambo isolating yourself in a campervan in an area with barely enough resources for the people who actually live there has to be up for a Darwin award. The idea of a lockdown enforced by cops/ the military is starting to look very appealing just to see these pricks getting charged. I try not to use the word 'hate' as along with 'love' it gets banded about so much that their true meanings have been lost but if I had to say I hate something it is the genetic coding in certain peoples brains that makes them want to rent or own a mobile caravan/ campervan for the purposes of a holiday.

Brora just been awarded the Highland League title with 6 games left of their season They had a 13 point lead over 2nd placed Inverurie who only had 4 games left so couldnt catch them HOWEVER they had a 17 point lead over 3rd place Fraserburgh who had 9 games left, and a 19 point lead over 4th & 5th placed Rothes (also 9 games left) and Buckie (8 games left) Personally don't agree with it but if it helps the clubs then so be it. Consensus Ive gotten is many of the Highland league clubs want to win the title but have no great desire to win the playoffs to get into the SPFL so maybe that had an influence on the decision? Also rumours of league reconstruction which might remove the need for playoffs

The London HQ of the British Army is at Clapham Junction

Personally I reckon the rattled look is more to do with him suddenly realising what being the leader (supposedly) of a country actually means. Nothing like this has happened in my lifetime and the closest thing in living memory will have been the 2nd world war as that resulted in pain and suffering of UK citizens not just the soldiers in a far off land. A simple movie quote that comes to mind is the scene between the Janitor and the Teacher in the Breakfast club 'Aw bullshit, man. Come on Vern, the kids haven't changed, you have! You took a teaching position, 'cause you thought it'd be fun, right? Thought you could have summer vacations off and then you found out it was actually work and that really bummed you out. This prick like so many others who have gone into politics in my lifetime did it for the powergrab and the fact he didnt actually have to do anything as long as he played the character. No matter what he did he would be OK as he was 'in the club' Now suddenly the hundreds of civil servants who have looked after him (and Cameron, and Blair) and made sure the place didnt go to shit havent got the answers, the 'club' is at serious risk of vanishing in an economic meltdown, and now its up to him and his immediate cronies to stand up and lead and protect the voters. And when the shit hits the fan the person with the big personality and no substance gets fucked The boring ones who have the guts and intelligence to actually make difficult decisions quickly whether they are popular or not are what you need but for so long this country (and so many others) have voted for the prick who shouts loudest and has the best soundbites. I wonder what Gordon Brown, or John Major would do if they were in Johnson's position? I'd like to think this will be a wake up call for everyone in the way our society has gone but I doubt it.

Opportunity to switch to summer football. Restart the season in September/ October and have the scottish cup final on St Andrews day. New season starts in March 2020 Doesnt answer the question of european places but who knows if that will happen next season?

In a world where money is no object and Planning regulations dont apply

Liverpool just taken to the cleaners on their own patch.

Not to mention the impact it is having on pollution what with China shutting down lots of factories, streets of several major cities seeing significant decrease in number of vehicles, and of course the number of poeple cancelling their holidays abroad. I might start getting worried when the nurses & paramedics I know start to act concerned but then again I might not. After all Im contributing to the destruction fo the planet just by living my current life so should Death/ Mother nature see fit to have another crack at taking me down and actually succeed this time (7th times a charm) then so be it.

Tic away it is then

From the Glasgow Herald:

Was going to say MBT was the favourite but now I think I may have that 'dishonour' 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 - Wee Toon Red 79 78 77 76 - RicoS321 75 - Ten Caat 74 73 - DantheDon 72 - BigAl 71 - 70 - Tyrant 69 68 67 - Jute 66 65 64 - MBT 63 62 - manc 61 60 - KennyFuckinPowers 59 58 - TomW 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 -------- Previous Champions: 2009-10: Dave_min (41 points) 2010-11: BigAl (38 points) 2011-12: Snapper (41 points) 2012-13: Tyrant (48 points) 2013-14: 2014-15: Dandy (75 points) 2015-16: Dandy (retained due to no correct scorer) 2016-17: Rico (76 points - Flawless Victory. Nothing questionable about it at all) 2017-18: Tom (73 points) 2018-19: DantheDon (67points)