Tag: NHS
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“No murders at all” in Lucy Letby case
It has been a while since I’ve written about Lucy Letby and the terrible miscarriage of justice she has endured but I think about the case often. In my last post about it in July 2024 I likened it to the imprisonment, torture and execution of an innocent Scottish woman called Agnes Sampson in 1591…
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Lucy Letby: another grave miscarriage of justice
On the 27th January 1591, a woman called Agnes Sampson from East Lothian, Scotland, was garrotted and burnt for the crime of witchcraft. She was accused of raising a storm to sink the ship transporting Princess Anne of Denmark to Scotland to marry King James VI. The ship safely docked in Norway and the King…
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Lucy Letby: did she get a fair trial?
In 2003 a Dutch nurse called Lucia de Berk was sentenced to life imprisonment for four murders and three attempted murders of patients in her care. It turned out to be a tragic miscarriage of justice and in 2010 she was freed after the Dutch Supreme Court reopened her case and exonerated her. The case…
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Busby the bakfiets is back in business
I stopped riding our bakfiets, Busby, back in 2018 when we got the electric cargo bike. Poor Busby has been sitting in our backyard ever since, tolerating all weathers and filling up with leaves and debris. I finally decided I couldn’t neglect him any longer and we booked him in for a service with the…
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Cronyism
I’m beginning to think there’s a bit of cronyism in the Boris Johnson government. The inexplicable appointment of Tony Abbott as trade advisor is not the first suspect announcement. In May of this year, Dido Harding was put in charge of the government’s new track, test, and trace programme. Tracking and tracing is an important…
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On escaping to the Highlands during a pandemic and preparedness
I think Prince Charles made a grave misjudgment in coming to the Highlands last weekend. He was apparently well when he travelled last weekend but the key point is not that he was well but that he travelled last weekend. It was prior to last weekend that it became clear people were trying to isolate…
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Praise for the NHS
We’re all very healthy and haven’t had much need for the NHS since we moved here but the school asked us at the end of last year to organise an appointment for Daniel to discuss his autism and Tourette’s syndrome. It was something I’d been thinking about doing at some point but hadn’t got around to…
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Another rant
I just read that a wealthy Aberdeen oil tycoon and his wife have donated £10 million to the hospital in Aberdeen for a new car park. Apparently the wife went to visit friends at the hospital and had problems finding a park. Here’s how I feel about this: Car parking is not a good investment for the…
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Rain tent for a cargo bike and homeopathy
For a little while now I’ve been lusting after a new bicycle. I currently have my heart set on a Triobike. The main reason I want a new bike is because the kids are getting too tall to fit under the rain tent in Busby. However Bakfiets, makers of Busby, recently released a taller version…
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Fish antibiotics
Mum has been ill this week with a headache, sore throat, blocked sinuses, cough and just generally feeling miserable. She wanted to see a GP and after my experience trying to get an appointment for Dad when he was here I was not hopeful. It seems I was right to feel this way because every place…
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A rant about human rights and trying to see a doctor
It must be time for a rant. I haven’t had one for a while and things build up. Apparently the recently re-elected conservative government in the UK has plans to scrap the Human Rights Act. Why would they want to do that? It’s sort of like saying, “Let’s scrap the right to vote for women.…
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I’m still alive!
Thanks for all the lovely comments on my post yesterday and the emails, tweets, and text messages. I’m completely fine today. I was just over-reacting which is not so unusual for me. I’m pretty sure the vision loss was migraine-related. I was just confused because it was unlike any kind of vision impairment I’ve had before…
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Welcome to the NHS and banking in Britain
A strange thing happened to me this morning: very suddenly a grey cloud descended halfway into my vision on one eye. I could still see below this grey cloud but from about halfway across my vision and up, I couldn’t see anything. After about a minute, it vanished as quickly as it appeared. There was…
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