Good morning everyone.
It is Sunday 31st March 2019 and sanity has been restored in the land as we have reverted to BST after months of Greenwich Mean Time, which has plagued many and upset countless peoples metabolism's all over the country. The person or person's unknown, who creeps around twice every year , tampering with mantle clocks, cooker and microwave clocks and numerous other time keeping devices round the home and other places, has visited perhaps for the final time, to restore sanity. It seems that there is a growing move towards keeping our clocks set to BST all year round which may of course upset a few, but will be welcomed by many. Personally, I would advocate keeping the clocks set as they are now and in March of 2020, moving them forward by another hour to create Double BST as was last seen in 1941, creating extra daylight savings but admittedly leading to darker mornings which might be problematic for some. However, on balance the extra ours of daylight
would be of benefit to the vast majority of people.
For the time being, let us be thankful that we are now in BST and that it could be that the clocks will not change again for the foreseeable future.
Still bedridden. It is now one month, 31 days in fact, since I was discharged from hospital. During my almost 7 month stay as an inpatient first in Dorchester County Hospital for perhaps 5 months then in Bridport Hospital, the amount of physiotherapy I have received has been almost non existent. Apart from a few minutes getting to the edge of the bed and standing, or struggling along the corridor on a Zimmer frame for a short "walk" occasionally, tasks I am now even not able to achieve, the actual physiotherapy treatment has been conspicuous by its absence.
Since returning home, the situation has not improved. In fact, during the last 31 days I have neither seen or even heard from the NHS in order to schedule some physiotherapy sessions here at home. It is almost as if the NHS has washed its hands of me and considers that their responsibility toward my rehabilitation will "sort itself out" over a period of time. I am now compelled to be lifted in and out of bed with an electric hoists and teams of carers 3 times per day.I have now taken matters into my own hands. Fortunately my wife Sandra, who amongst all the other tasks she has performed, has taken on the role of pushing me into a series of exercises for legs and upper body attempting to regain some of the strength lost over the months. In addition, I have also retained the services of a private Physiotherapist once a week to provide assistance in becoming more mobile. An expensive but necessary solution to the problem of no physiotherapists within the NHS.
I have no intention of remaining in bed for the rest of my life.
There is no such thing in the United Kingdom of Gt Britain and Northern Ireland, as a written Constitution. Everything is done on custom and practice and is reliant on precedent.Thus so is the post or position of Prime Minster. A position which does not accurately exist but which over recent times of party politics has become associated with the leader of the party winning an overall majority of the seats at a general election. Thus, historically, the title of Prime Minster has always been applied or given to "the person able to command a majority in the House of Commons".
Theresa May has none of these requirements. Her party does not have an overall majority of seats arising from the last general election, nor, particularly over the past few weeks, is she able to command a majority in the House of Commons, with many of her own conservative MP's voting against her.
Theresa May has none of these requirements. Her party does not have an overall majority of seats arising from the last general election, nor, particularly over the past few weeks, is she able to command a majority in the House of Commons, with many of her own conservative MP's voting against her.
Meanwhile,back in Jersey, there are plans to change the rules for camper and motor home usage on the island. Now I remember the days when caravans or anything like them were completely banned. Now there are proposals to open more sites to "accommodate the growing passion for campervan and motorhome usage in the Island." C'est la vie.
The weather seems to be improving. Has winter passed us by for this year? We shall see.
Have a nice week.
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