Morning all. OH has to pick up his prescription so we may go on a bit further and visit Peter Beales Classic roses, there is a lovely garden and they are now open, but the day looks like being cool and cloudy.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, The government never seem to learn re I.T. do they. Flippin eck, just noticed it's started raining again. Supposed to be the last day of this wet weather for a while. The garden really needed the rain but I've had enough of it now.
Going to see Firstborn this afternoon and drop off Mabel's birthday pressie for tomorrow. Haven't got any wrapping paper so it may have to Christmas paper if I can persuade Hubby to go down the cellar and retrieve some. She wont care what it's wrapped in. Firstborn has had a really rough time over the last few months as she is responsible for safeguarding at a very large school and she has had some terrible cases to deal with, I really don't know how she does it. Yesterday was a particularly bad day.
@Busy-Lizzie enjoy your visit to Peter Beales, I live about 30 mins from David Austin and I love to visit at this time of year, the smell in the rose garden is amazing.
Our words exactly @punkdoc. The NHS is excellent at many, many things. IT is not one of them (and arguably nor should it be).
Ditto. I wish ALL organisation would stick to what they're good at, but accept that they don't know everything and that some folk are better at other stuff .
Must admit I don't understand why the UK govt doesn't lift its gaze from its navel and look at how other countries do things. The Belgian health system has been computerised fro decades now, tracing patient info, knowing where to send info to GPS or consultants depending on direction needed, tracking info on treatments, meds etc and it's trilingual Flemish, French, German. I expect Germany has an efficient system too.
How hard would it be to buy a copy and tweak it instead of re-inventing the wheel and wasting billions of tax revenue?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We've been planning a walk in a local nature reserve for 3 weeks now @Busy-Lizzie but have postponed till the showers pass. We had another heavy one this morning and some overnight. Not forecast.
Great for the garden but not for a first outing after lockdown especially with the holiday home brigade arriving for weekends and early summer hols and not behaving as sensibly as the locals.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Smelly here. I've been setting up a crafty hanging system for the garlic crop to dry (copied from a clever chap on A4A). It involves an old pallet with added wire strung across the slats to make holes thru which the stems are threaded while the bulb is held up in the air. Hoping they do better than last year's crop which went soft very quickly.
Just in case, I've separated and peeled the cloves from almost half the bulbs and have set them in the oven in olive oil to confit slowly at 90C. They should squish beautifully for luscious sauces and I'll have garlic oil as a bonus.
OH is coming along well as an under gardener. He's down the back of the veggie plot hacking out nettles and brambles and seedling ash and mimosas and thinning the crown of the trees there to allow more light and air to the back of the polytunnel and veggie plot. All the green stuff and twiggy bits are being piled up in a berm for wildlife to feed on and shelter in. The big bits will be chipped.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Our words exactly @punkdoc. The NHS is excellent at many, many things. IT is not one of them (and arguably nor should it be).
Ditto. I wish ALL organisation would stick to what they're good at, but accept that they don't know everything and that some folk are better at other stuff .
It's not always that simple, I used to work for the Blood service when it was regional even though it was called national.One of the the centres I worked in had an excellent laboratory IT system that was written & managed in house by ex lab staff that had an aptitude for IT. Later when the services were merged we were forced to adopt a new system that was "professionally" written but had a different focus. The lab module was pants we lost all kinds of functionality that we really valued. That said I do agree the present gov't seem hell bent on big projects, that they start from scratch that miss the mark by miles. They are unwilling or unable to look at what works elsewhere and adopt best practice.
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OH has to pick up his prescription so we may go on a bit further and visit Peter Beales Classic roses, there is a lovely garden and they are now open, but the day looks like being cool and cloudy.
How hard would it be to buy a copy and tweak it instead of re-inventing the wheel and wasting billions of tax revenue?
Great for the garden but not for a first outing after lockdown especially with the holiday home brigade arriving for weekends and early summer hols and not behaving as sensibly as the locals.
Just in case, I've separated and peeled the cloves from almost half the bulbs and have set them in the oven in olive oil to confit slowly at 90C. They should squish beautifully for luscious sauces and I'll have garlic oil as a bonus.
OH is coming along well as an under gardener. He's down the back of the veggie plot hacking out nettles and brambles and seedling ash and mimosas and thinning the crown of the trees there to allow more light and air to the back of the polytunnel and veggie plot. All the green stuff and twiggy bits are being piled up in a berm for wildlife to feed on and shelter in. The big bits will be chipped.
That said I do agree the present gov't seem hell bent on big projects, that they start from scratch that miss the mark by miles. They are unwilling or unable to look at what works elsewhere and adopt best practice.