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OK, so I’m filling here by writing about blogs. Which really is the worst kind of blogging¹, it’s a bit like a perpetual motion machine or pyramid scheme, it all starts out well and then someone notices it’s just a self fulfilling prophecy and then it all comes crashing down like a house of cliches. But hey, there’s always new suckers to buy into a pyramid, right?

I’ve just read this Girlrobot blog post about Michael Moore’s Sicko film. It’s interesting how despite our love of whinging about the NHS in the UK, it’s actually quite a good thing. It’s definitely whinge worthy, but having a hip replaced here is somewhat cheaper here than in the states. If you can wait a year or two…

Case in point, we called out a doctor on last Sunday (because we were both really suffering with a virus thing and I wanted to check we weren’t actually dying (as seemed to be the case) and would need antibiotics). It was the first time I’d called out a doctor in years, the last time I had one called out was when I had an asthma attack when I was about 11, I think one call out every 11 or so years is not entirely unreasonable. The guy on the phone from the hospital did. His point was that they would only send out a doctor on a Sunday for elderly people who were unable to get to the hospital. My point was that my age aside, I was unable to get to the hospital. This went on for some time with him informing me of “resource issues” and me informing him of his “resource issues” not being my problem.

Eventually we got a doctor. He had a quick poke around with a stethoscope, said “virus” and then left. Despite the whole visit taking about 45 seconds it was nice to know I didn’t have in infection and that it would just go away (which it finally did last week). I’ve lost my point here somewhere. Ahh yes, I was entitled to that visit. Despite the fact the NHS is far from perfect at the best of times, it’s nice to know that as a British citizen the state is there for us sometimes. This is obviously the benefit of our budget spending being on health and not defence. The army doesn’t need working guns anyway, well, they work fine until you get sand in them and that’s close enough.

I had a point. There’s a prize if you can find it!

1. You think Firefox’s² spellchecker would know ‘blogging’ eh?
2. You think Firefox’s spellchecker³ would know ‘Firefox’s’ eh?
3. I’m not even going near ’spellchecker’…