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Friday, 28 July 2017
Beeping Madness
Lurking Under Societies Surface
The NHS is Britain's great social melting pot. Certainly from my observations, about 40% of the staff are born overseas, and about a quarter of its recipients are seemingly also born abroad.
But it's also the only place outside of the more fleeting brushes on public mass transport, where the social classes meet for any length of time.
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| Five Hundred Thousand Dysfunctional Families In UK ..... |
But it's also the only place outside of the more fleeting brushes on public mass transport, where the social classes meet for any length of time.
The Great Escape
Well, it was a narrow run thing, and only achieved after playing our get out of jail card judiciously (or at least desperately), but we are now back in the fortress of solitude, literally licking our wounds.
So this blogger lives to fight another day, but as the Duke of Wellington famously said after the battle of Waterloo "It has been a damned nice (close run) thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life".
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| I'm Still Here ..... Just. |
So this blogger lives to fight another day, but as the Duke of Wellington famously said after the battle of Waterloo "It has been a damned nice (close run) thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life".
Friday, 14 July 2017
Profound Thoughts From The Past
I'll leave you this week with the thoughts on the importance of education, by Sergeant Major J Parkinson.
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He was a participant of the Battle of Alma during the Crimea War, when he served her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, as a soldier in the 11th Hussars cavalry unit. Part of the Light Brigade of Charge of the Light Brigade fame ... but that was later in the campaign.
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