A busy day delivering 20 bags of logs, meeting up with Louise to work on my web site upgrades and then hoisting David for a two hour work session.
This whilst Kathleen was with her sister Helen for the day. Norwich won 0-1 away to Bristol City in the cup. Close to 1m NHS appointments lost to strikes.
A very busy but a very productive day as I revealed to Kathleen this morning that I was all set to meet up with Louise today. I started the day with some French toast and then got our quickly to load up and deliver a further 20 bags of Latvian logs to Micheal, the Pizza vending guy. The £100 became very useful as I then quickly changed and met up with Louise and she wanted £400 to cover the 18 hour sof work she had completed and planned to do. That was fair as it still only amounted to some £20 an hour for professionally skilled work.
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She has become very slim, possibly too much so, as she asked me, I ventured the opinion that she not lose any more weight. It was a lovely session catching up, exchanging news and updating my web site which is looking much better these days. It was also very helpful working together. This done, I rushed home, changed and welcomed David to work two hours in the wood before dusk when we cleared a little more of my latest compartment. The evening meal and then time on my web site and journal; improving the links from its front page
The number of appointments and treatments postponed by strike action in the NHS in England is nearing one million. The 48-hour walkout by consultants in England last week saw more than 45,000 appointments being cancelled. It brings the total number of postponed hospital appointments since industrial action began in the NHS in December to 885,000. Once mental health and community bookings are included, it tops 944,000. The true total is likely to be even higher, as services have stopped scheduling appointments on strike days, and these will not be included in the figures released by NHS England. Alongside consultants, junior doctors, nurses, physios, ambulance workers and radiographers have also walked out at various stages. NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said: "Industrial action continues to have a huge impact on the NHS, and on the lives of patients and their families.