I have a few blogs that I read as part of my daily routine and a few of those have made me stop and think recently.
Inspector Gadget posted some time ago about the horrifying case of a young police constable who was beaten and left in a vegetative state by what appears to be two [...]
Wednesday morning dawned bright and beautiful in Wales with the sun shining and by 0700 I was already on the road taking Lima into London. Amusingly, once I crossed the bridge, it became quite cloudy. At a truckstop outside of Bristol the tone was set for the day:
“I think you’re lost mate, there’s no mountains [...]
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Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’ve been quiet recently. Yes, damnit, I’ve had enough, I want to go on a callout now.
So where am I today? Well, about the time that this will hit the Internet, I’ll be in Lima in central London. Somewhere around Westminster. No, it’s not a rescue, it’s a [...]
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On a mailing list I’m on, where a bunch of geeks were discussing Christianity:
“If only Jesus hadn’t forgotten the safeword, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”Â
There’s a general superstition in the emergency services over the use of a certain q-word. Indeed, both Lynfa and Sean are known for being “responsible” for a callout having used the said word immediately prior to the pagers going off. Lynfa in particular seems to be the team jinx for callouts. But it’s been…well…y’know…recently. Nothing [...]
Happy St David’s day to you all.
In other news, everything’s been confirmed with the new job and I’m now heading for the second week of my notice period. I haven’t published the new company’s name for now for obvious reasons, but I’m sure most of you can either work it out or know me well [...]
This is the long-awaited second part of this post last month asking my readers what you would do as a search manager. Apologies for the delay – Real Life managed to get in the way.
So what did you do?
First of all, he’s done nothing wrong. The Police have a remit to preserve life and property [...]
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