Last of these food photos.

 This is the last of this batch off food photos, hoping to have some more by next week.

Food photos and some avaition news

 

 First the aviation news.  Over the last week theres been another three aircraft with cracked windscreens.  I've mentioned this before, but it's a worrying new trend.  In one case the aircraft continued it's flight a thousand mies or so instead of landing ASAP and getting it fixed.   

 If a windscreen blows out (and they are under pressure at 37.000 feet) the crew can pass out in seconds, and it's been known for a crew member to be sucked out.  Thats when they find out if their oxygen masks work... sometimes they dont!

 The food photos, a few more recent shots.

Fungi

 Spotted this the other day, so grabbed a shot of it.

More food photos

 

 A few more new food photos.

 

 

Some recent food photos.

 A couple of food photos from this week.

Let them eat cake (food photos)

 

  Let them eat cake, as Marie Antoinette is claimed to have spoken during the 1789 famine in France (although this claim came about 50 years after her death) the real words "Qu'iis mangent de la brioch" actually appear in a book written in 1765, so well before Antoinette may have said them.

 Anyway history out of the way onto the pictures, in this case the cake wasn't during a famine, although I was bloody starving by the time I got to "test" it... bloody good it was too.

 

Sky.

 

 A sky from yesterday.

 

Welsh NHS shambles

 

The day before yesterday my mother became ill in her care home about tea time.  The home rang the NHS helpline to speak to a doctor.  Some time later a nurse rang back to say they didn't have a doctor, but one would phone back at some point .

 A few hours later a doctor rang back to say  he'd come and see her.  around midnght the doctor arrived had a look and said he thought she was just a bit off with a bug.  By two in the morning the home rang the helpline back and said she was a lot worse, the doctor rang back about an hour later and told the home to ring 999, they did at three in the morning.

 Fast forward to yesterday eleven in the morning, ambulance contol rang home to say they were sorry for the delay.  Oh well thats ok them an 89 year old woman whos a priority call has already waited eight hours, and remember she was ill long before the ambulance was called.  At three in the afternoon the ambulance arrived, they assesed my mother and decided to take her in.

 It was about quarter to four in the afternoon before they finsihed checking her and getting her in the ambulance, then they leave to a hospital over thrity miles away, it's around five tea time we arrive at casualty, now we sit in the ambulance for another thrity minutes waiting for a space to take her into.

 Being serious it's now been around twenty four hours since the care homes call to the NHS, despite her being classed as a priority it's taken her a full twenty four hours to get her to the hospital.  Any doctor will tell you about the "golden hour" that first hour that can make all the difference.  I'm guessing the Welsh NHS has missed that memo.

 At the hospital she was left laying in a room with the ambulance crew as there seemed to be no doctors or nurses.  The abulance took around four hours to pick up one patient, and finally hand them over,  No fault of the crew, they were stuck looking after the patient because the hospital had no where to put her.

 Indeed the crew joked with me at one point holding up a printed A4card with a letter B on it, in their logo it stands for Back to the ambulance to wait because the hospital has no beds.  They told me they often wait all day outside a hospital with a patient stuck in the ambulance.

In the real world this means the ambulance on a good day might do four or five calls in a twelve hour shift.  Often only one ot two.  No wonder people wait on the floor for up to ninteen hours, even worse is the fact that station only has five ambulances and crews, three of the sat outside the hospital the many hours we were there.

 Mark Drakeford, our laughingly called first minister.  So busy dreaming up stupid schemes to fuck up Wales, like making all the speed limit 20MPH (that'll boost business) should be asahmed of his health service, this is on HIS watch remember, it's gone downhill faster than the crap skydiver.  heres a suggestion Mark, go and see the families of recent NHS patients, the ones who waited fifteen hours on the floor for an ambulance in the rain maybe, get a few pointers as to what it needs to fix it

 And in case you cant be bothered to ask here what could be done, open up one of the tempory covid hospitals, move all the bed-blocking patients there, that'll free up hospital beds for the people arriving in ambulances, that mens the ambulances wont spent four hours sitting off the road with a sick person in them, that means faster response times.  Oh yesand do Wales a big favor, resign and let someone competent to the job.

Finding bigfoot the search continues (review)

 

 Finding bigfoot the joke continues.  Yes the terrible not finding bigfoot returns to our screens after several years gap.  The tagline is "The team reunites with the state-of-the-art technology to investigate a mountain of evidence from one property in southeast Ohio. In West Virginia, several recent reported sightings emerge.".

  Yes the team from not finding fuck all are back.  They make a big thing about new technology, "everybody now has a phone camera, cctv and doorbell cameras.... handy if there wre doorbells in the forest!

 To make the joke worse they are not using new technology, they are using the same shit IR cameras they used in the last series.  No PVS14, no top of the range FLIR, just the same terrible quality cameras they had before.  Have you seen how good modern passive night vision is?  even a SIONYX Aurora digital camera (£700) blows away their gear, check out a youtuve video of it compared the Finding fuck alls camera.

 Seriously guys give it, your crap and your programs crap!   You'll find fuck all making all the noise you make.  lets be honest you couldn't find a cat in a small bag, never mind an elusive creature in a big forest.

 My challenge still stands discover/history.  Send me and a small team of my choice with proper gear and we'll find a lot more than this lot.

Avaition news.

 Theres been another two commercial aircraft with cracked windows, this new trend I have mentioned before, for some reason numbers are way up on normal the last few months.

 Theres been a worrying rise in the number of aircraft diverting due to the smell of smoke or actual smoke in the aircraft.  This is particularly worrying as a fire on board an aircraft in flight is one of the most dangerous things that can happen. You have limited fire fighting gear, and no easy way to escape the toxic smoke.  The only answer is land as fast as possible.  Good luck if your half way over the atlantic when it happenes... 

 Another type of accident on the rise is the "ground contact" this is when two (or more) aircraft hit each other on the ground.  The good news is this is normally during push-back and it's almost always the wingtip that gets damaged.  While very expensive theres normally no real danger to passengers, the biggest risk is it being repaired badly and failing later.

 Happy flying.