Alan Stedman
@alanjstedman
You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot. Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️ I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
Keep going! Our 'baby' is about 10 years old and has occasionally had to be revived with a dose of strong white only and then a dab of rye later but mostly it's good to go One 'tool' we would recommend is a banneton. It makes getting it out onto the cooking sheet so much easier. And this helps
I have the coffee bean version of that. 46 years old, never gone wrong and no real signs of age!
Common Darter dragonfly (I believe) came to suss out our nine month old pond yesterday Not: the wings with black tips on the left are actually the shadow of the real wings on the stone. It was not a new genus of dragonfly!
My Sud was a cream/beige colour. Plate was KEV 541N Always thought I needed to find a Kevin to buy the car for the numberplate but a dealer took it in P/E! Oh, just found the very coloured one on line
Here's mine. Managing to keep height down to about 0.75m. if left it will sail away to 3m It has a celery vibe about it but use with care as I have already said See Alt+ text
May I suggest that today might be one for passing on the cigar and if necessary going for another smoking accoutrement
Theme? I need sunglasses to stop the glare from the flashing red lights all linked together in a chain and the fact Wigmore is somewhere in there (if Wigmore is, AB is likely in there too) speaks volumes
Matt has probably never heard of John Richard Archer, elected Mayor of Battersea in 1913, but born in Liverpool I think I'm right in saying that under Goodwin's rules he would not qualify as British as his father was Barbadian, his mother Irish Archer considered himself a "man of colour"
Froggie came a swimming in our pond this morning, joining the forty odd tadpoles we have all at different stages of development. All are rising to the top to breathe which is fun to watch as they flip over after a breath before swimming back down. Some are more advanced and showing legs forming
As it's Sunday Here are a couple of shots of Pyramid orchids now in bloom on the dunes on the NW coast of England
David Hockney R.I.P. Pure inspiration and the man was forever curious Curious works for me Go well David
Ahhh, Libraries. I've known a few My local public library was a Carnegie Post A Levels I worked for Lambeth Council for nearly two years in the public libraries (most 19th century buildings from philanthropic sources) University campus is still dominated by the Templeman Library (Kent)
Heard on the news that Badenoch says the Tories will remove the Equality Act and bring back "common sense" I was wondering did she realise that there are 9 protected characteristics not just the one she wants to pander to the right wing voters on?🤬 A good society imo protects the vulnerable
Can you imagine what a storm there would be in the White House if Lammy said something similar about an American citizen, using it to make a political point? There will be silence from No 10 Thinking about it that's probably how best to respond at a diplomatic level...with total disdane
BA and MBA and he is happy to sit there and say that? I'm guessing neither place is big on critical reasoning then Oh hang on, they probably do, but Banks may have skipped those classes and decided being a member of a cult mattered more Or as a former naval officer he just obeys the CIC Twat
I can get behind that We had a new patio laid in November and it has transformed the garden. We like being outside and now the patio sucks us out there whenever we can - recent sun has helped. Dog loves it as well...more ball throwing! Pond in development mode. Tadpoles this year to our surprise
Realise you have posted the Kings Fund piece (and noted that the UK spends less on admin than other systems 😉) but here's the GDP Health spend data - top spenders. Note that the USA has been a big outlier since I started in the NHS in 1979...in 'Administration' 🤭 Source: OECD - data for 2024
Oh? What else have you got from those days...and how big is your house? Tbh has a few Keith Floyd cookbooks and I have a few 1960s children's books And just today I realised my 'owl' mug is 52 years young!
Read Dan's posts and your response Alex and when I flipped to my emails came across a review of this book by Dr Paul Goldsmith Photo is from the review and the link is to the publishers website www.hachette.co.uk/titles/dr-pa...