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We haven't had matrons since the early 80's they were replaced with non clinical ward managers, who by the very nature of their contracts are not permitted to work evenings or weekends, so they have no real idea of what goes on in the hospital, I've just read a fascinating book on the NHS...

I was talking to a freind of mine abroad and he said we (the UK) are the laughing stock of the world at the moment, as an island we were in an ideal position to quarantine but we didn't, I seriously suspect that Boris doesn't know the meaning of the word! In the begining we should have stopped...

we,ve just done some work on a church, they'd had an eicr done, which took two hours apparently, and what a joke it was, despite the service head being an old cast iron one with fused neutral and also undersized tails and damaged henley blocks, that part was listed as being ok, they'd given C2...

Speaking of odd and dodgy stuff going on in the far east, my mate has a Thai girlfriend and last time he was over there  he sent me a picture of an angle grinder belonging to her dad, I must try and find it again. Anyway the switch had packed up so he'd got an old 32A mcb and taped it to the...

Ha, I remember doing that on my mam and dads house when I was an apprentice, the wiring was sound but the lights were only twin, no earth. it was about that time that everone was going daft over metal light fittings, almost every house had a chandelier of some sort. I 'borrowed' a roll of 1.5 GY...

My mate's dad was a signalman, he built a replica of the local line it was on a large 8x4 sheet of ply that folded down from the wall in my mates bedroom, the only thing was he was never allowed to play with it, 'it's not a toy you know' was the reply he always got when he asked his dad if he...

The other day I was feeling a bit maudlin, and started to think about my past, I wasn't feeling particularly good about myself, I suppose everything has been getting to me and I was going on a bit of a downer, reading an article that said that with all that had gone on lately with Covid, it was...

I remember some years ago, I didn't normally do domestic but ended up on a job for a builder I knew as the spark had let him down, anyway the building inspector turned up and we got talking, and what he told me really worried me, and explained a lot. I asked him how he found it, keeping up with...

No, that was on scalextric cars, trains today pick up through the wheels, the DCC system basically allows one controller to run several trains on one line, each train has a module in it that can be changed to avoid interference with another train. It's to make them run more like a real railway...

Agree with all the comments above, something is either wired wrong or your meter is out of whack, just a thought, you didn't null your leads to use a long wander lead did you? if you did and then went back to the normal leads this could cause issues, I'd test the meter with a check box for a...

I know, that's why I left when I did, I hope people didn't think bad of me for getting off early but it was so hard to realise that the end had really arrived, I knew he'd gone, but I suppose it was the same for you too, it only became real when we were looking at the coffin, I'm not ashamed to...

Have you looked at this? https://www.seaward.com/gb/support/pat-testing/283a936-supernova-elite/faqs-and-articles/221-how-do-i-upgrade-the-firmware-on-the-supernova-elite/ either that or if that fails ring Seaward and ask them, they're usually very helpful if you ask them.

Well people it's been a funny year hasn't it, we've lost Tony, Sidewinder isn't well and a lot of us have had problems, either health wise or financially due to the Covid pandemic, all in all it's been a tough year for most of us. I'd just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and...

I worked for a firm doing a strip out and refit of a plant for a well known curry manufacturer, they'd had a new plant built and it was only after it was up and running that a serious flaw was discovered, all the internal walls were spec'd as plastic coated steel cladding, suitable to be...

there was something on telly about this and there have been calls for Currys/PC World to have to honour their Black Friday prices to everyone who tried to order stuff and was told it was out of stock. It reminds me of that joke about the fella who has been all over town looking to buy a new...

My tipple of choice now is Guinness, I used to drink a lot of Jack Daniels, and I mean a lot, then I developed a stomach problem as a result of something else and was off drink for almost a year, my weight went down to about 9 stone and I had to eat a small amount of food every 3-4 hours around...

I agree in point with what both you and Murdoch say, I remember once when I must have been totally losing the plot and read a copy of the regs cover to cover, the number of items I found that contradicted each other were unbelievable, in one section it would say something like you must install...

there used to be stats available on each fire brigade area that broke domestic fires down into types, e.g kitchen fires, rubbish fires, accidental fires, malicious fires, electrical fires. Then they broke them down further, e.g, cigarettes dropped onto beds/couches, ashtrays emptied into bins...

I remember a woman discussing repainting her lounge and she said her favourite colour was blue.next time she used her computer the background colour had changed to blue, she had an Alexa.I dont need one I have enough trouble with the wife listening to things she shouldnt.lol

Dear friends today was the day of Tony,s funeral in Nottingham, it was a simple service attended by his son Carl, several other family members and a few close friends. I passed on all your messages of condolence and told Carl how well thought of Tony was amongst his peers. He has asked me to...