Yes, Friends, if YOU are dissatisfied with YOUR doctor, there's a new experimental 'strain' of NHS doctors who will be 'taking the strain' very soon - no pun intended!!!!!
Onion News has more....
And the story certainly brings a cheeky smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois today, here in partly-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, that's for sure!!!
my wife Lois and me - some recent pictures
Unfortunately, it's another "medical" day for us after yesterday's little "COVID jab outing" (!), and today I've got an appointment with the nurse at our local surgery for my annual blood test. Whether she's one of the new-style 'placebo nurses' I'm unable to say definitively! After all, the whole point of them is that you can't tell the difference, isn't it: otherwise 'the spell would be broken', which would be mad!!!
(left) our local NHS surgery, and (right) a typical blood test 'malarkey' (!)
The nurse asks me which arm I want her to 'do', and, as always, I pick the left, as I'm right-handed. Call me a bit 'conventional' if you like haha!!!
Yesterday I got some COVID vaccine put into my left arm, and today I get some blood taken out of it, so I suspect that the weight of my arm won't have changed very significantly - something pushed in, something pulled out - what a malarkey !!!!
She only takes a bit of my blood, I think. I certainly don't feel any lighter when I leave. Not like poor old 1950's comedian Tony Hancock, when he volunteered to be a blood donor, and was famously shocked to hear from his doctor that they were going to take as much as a pint.
What madness that was!!!! And what a load of rubbish poor Hancock had to put up with for his pains!!!
Actually, by coincidence, both Lois and I are still feeling a bit 'rubbish' today, so, after lunch, we get into bed for 'statutory nap-time', although we know it's going to be just a quickie today. Our daughter Alison, who lives just 10 miles away just over the county line in Churt, Surrey, is going to drop by at 2:30pm for a "catch-up", which will be nice!
Alison and family are still in their so-called 'temporary' rental home in Churt, while their own crumbling Victorian mansion in Headley is being refurbished - so ,more madness there!!! Their mansion should be ready to move back into in the autumn, but unfortunately the Swedish landlord of their temporary rental home is simultaneously trying to sell, so it's a 'toss-up' whether the family will be able to stay there till their proper house is finished and ready to move back into.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
(left) our daughter Alison, who drops in on us this afternoon, for a 'catch-up',
and (right) her family's crumbling Victorian mansion, still being renovated
the family's temporary rental home, now on the market for 'a snip' - but you'll
need a cool £1.1 million if you want to 'snap up' that 'snip' - what madness, isn't it!!!!
19:00 What a day for Lois and me - busy busy busy, yet again!
Luckily there's something restful to wind down to this evening, an episode from diminutive Scottish comedienne Susan Calman's 7th series of "Grand Days Out", on Channel 5, which is a relief, to put it mildly!!!!
Tonight, Susan's in Nottinghamshire, and she ends her travels in the county a few miles north of Nottingham, with a visit to Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Victorian hell-raiser and poet, Lord Byron (1788-1824).
Not only did Byron have a 'large to XXL' 'gaff', he also had a large personality to match, no doubt about that!
Byron has been described as the world's first modern celebrity, one who marketed a 'romantic' image of himself, limping around moodily and wearing a cape. Dubbed 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know', he's believed also to be the first modern recipient of fan mail from his hordes of female admirers. Women all wanted a lock of his hair, we're told.
And in order to keep himself "pale, slender and interesting", he consumed a lot of vinegar, thought at the time to be the best way to keep your weight down, would you believe!
And of course, Byron also found time to write a ton of 'tortured poetry', needless to say!
Susan herself, however, confesses that she personally has never been much into the tortured stuff. Her own wife has a different way of romancing her, she says.
So what's the 'takeaway' from Susan's touching confession? Susan spells it out for us, which is nice!
Kudos, Susan!
But what a crazy life they led, in those far-off times!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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