Yesterday I spent a very interesting, but at times uncomfortable , three hours in the Edinburgh University Research MRI Unit at the Western General Hospital. Following my last wee incident I agreed to help with an ongoing research project - but having helped out it was certainly not pleasant at times, trying out a new procedure to improve the images produced by the scanner. On the plus side, the staff were brilliant, explained everything that was going on and how it would help patients in the future.
Today, headed for work on what was a bloody awful morning, eventually, feeling worse than awful I headed home to bed on the bus - bad mistake. Young lady got on at Dalkeith, yakking on her mobile phone and enlightened her fellow passengers as to her health issues, financial problems, recent parties, etc - fascinating stuff, so much so that I ended up getting off at an early stop to get away from her and wait on another bus, but guess what, she got off behind me and wandered off into the rain ( and distance) still yakking. Might be time to get the phone companies to put an automatic cut off on these phones or have the bus companies ban their use. Yesterday it was a bloke behind me who blethered for twenty minutes, but at least he did speak a local dialect.
Obviously these moans are so trivial and pale into insignificance when compared with the problems in Nepal, where the death toll is still rising, and where the Government has now cancelled / banned all expeditions to Mount Everest as the climbing routes have been so badly damaged by avalanches. Knock on effect will be a loss of tourist revenue. Elsewhere, yet another refugee disaster at sea as more are drowned in the Mediterranean.
Looks as though a small group of vetted asylum seekers are going to be offered homes in Edinburgh very shortly.
Andy Murray has won his first clay court championship and the first in thirty nine years by a UK player, well done.
Nice to see the new Royal baby, lovely choice of name, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, and the bookies paid out £1million to punters who guessed the names.
Road users must now beware !! our Derrick has passed his driving test - well done.
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