The UK Government is spending £240 million to GPs to update their old phones with modern call systems so that patients can be refused an appointment more speedily. Why is the Government giving GPs more money? GPs have always made a big thing of being independent contractors. Is the Government now going to give all self-employed people free or cheap phones? Meanwhile, the Government has cut 30% from pharmacy funding in the last seven years, and pharmacies are closing rapidly. In the last two years, 160 pharmacies have shut. This will make it difficult for pharmacies to provide the health care alternative the government expects them to provide.
When my book collection grows too large for the house, I fill a few bin bags with books and take them to the nearest charity shop. I am now so fed up with being treated rudely by charity shop staff (I obviously don’t expect them to say ‘thank you’) that in future I am going to give excess books to local junk/second hand shops where the staff are usually genuinely grateful. In my experience the rudest charity shop staff are the ones working for a charity called Cats Protection (formerly the Cats Protection League). The other day I foolishly took one of their shops two heavy bags of almost new books. ‘Are they hard back or paper back?’ demanded a woman. ‘They’re mixed,’ I said. ‘I don’t want hardbacks,’ snapped the woman. Never again.
Am I the only one who gets confused by the labels used by various brands of homosexual? What’s the difference between LGBTI and LGBTQ? Why isn’t there a LGBTIQ? Where is this going to end? LGBTQIZFXR? I ask only out of genuine bewilderment and curiosity.
Russia has thirteen different time zones. Bet you didn’t know that. Bet you probably don’t care either. But it’s relevant because it reminds us just how huge Russia is.
Around 95% of the material on the internet is false or fake. (Certainly, I know from my own experience that 95% of the material about me is false – some innocently so and much of it maliciously so.)