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.

The Apprentice 2023

 

 The Apprentice tv series is now in it's fourth week.  Don't worry if you missed any, just watch the first few from last year, as the candidates are clones every year you'll not notice the difference.

 The series now in it's 17th year, sadly it's not better, indeed it's a shadow of it's former self.  The candidates are the same tired, bored clones they have every year, so-called business people, yet incapable of basic maths or English.  Unable to work out hard questions like how much is 45x400 on paper (it's 18.000 ) Last year they couldn't spell Arctic, yeah real tough questions!

 Lord Sugar has lost his fire, he used to be brilliant, really sharp and cutting, now it's tired old jokes and the "with regret your fired".  Why regret?  They were crap!

 Part of the problem is the BBC is more concerned about it being entertainment, than actually picking business people, thats why you get so many joking candidates now.  Just check out an early series to see the difference.  Back then pretty much any would have made a business partner.  Now theres about 3 or 4 actually real candidates, the rest are filler, padding, canon fodder for sacking.  

 Lord Sugar probably know which one of the 3 or 4 he'll most likely hire before the series starts, he can get a good idea from the business plans.  It's not fixed, one will go on to become a business start up chance, it's just padded to make the series "better viewing"... Thats a matter of opinion, not mine anyway.

Missing 411 the UFO connection 2022 review

 

 Mising 411 the UFO connection is a documentary film by  David Paulides (the missing 411 author) the film looks into the connection between missing people and UFO's.

 The film is a series of interviews and some location footage.  Some of the stories are very courious, and there does seem to be a link between some of the missing people, and some UFO sightings.

 The film is a supprisingly good watch, quite interesting even if your not a UFO believer... you might be after watching this.

 Waynes rating 7.5 out of 10.  Well worth a watch

Colour and black and white, last of this batch

 

 Well these are the last of this batch... sadly.  Trouble is I get very little time, and I'm having lots to do around the house too, so I'm struggling to get time to go out shooting these days.  Going to try and get out today for an hour if I can.... Fingers crossed for more pics soon.

 The black and white has the red filter treatment, hence the black sky.