I have reached that age when for Christmas I am given socks, chocolates and paperbacks. I am half way through this year’s crop of paperbacks and found this quote in a John le Carre novel. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world” I learnt the same lesson working in a […]
If a Job’s Worth Doing
It is worth doing well. God alone knows what the neighbours think. Happy Christmas
Christmas Wishes?
I was sent this, by my friend Scott. It is funny, in a very sad sort of way. It demonstrates quite nicely how we can absolutely miss the point of what we are doing and get completely side tracked. I wanted to send some sort of Festive greeting to my friends and family, but it […]
Brain Scan
Glasgow’s Western infirmary owns a £500,000 CT scanner (computerised tomography if you must know, though I am not much wiser). Apparently it is used to scan patients’ brains if they are thought to have had a stroke. Unfortunately it has been idle for the past six months as the radiographer who operated it left the […]
Don’t Trust Your Customers
A supermarket in Poole refused to sell a woman a bottle of wine because her son was with her. Checkout staff at the Co-op, told the furious mother that she might be buying it for her 12 year old son. Better still, when challenged a spokeswoman for Co-op said: “The Co-op group stands by this […]