12.14.05
Lets forget the doom and gloom
People working in the NHS are getting pretty demoralised at the moment, where ever you go, the talk is of vacancy freezes, financial recovery plans, potential redundancies, disappointment with agenda for change pay bandings not to mention the mass uncertainty caused by the proposed changes to primary health care. For someone like me who is generally a half full, happy person, it is getting harder to keep up the act when inside you are becoming affected by all that is going on around you. That and my credit card bill dropping through the door this morning!
At least the oil depot fire is more or less out, and certainly the plume of smoke which can be seen around town is diminishing. The roads are beginning to re-open and hopefully before too long I will be able to get to work without making a massive detour.
Unlike some of my fellow bloggers, I actually love Christmas, and absolutely love giving presents (see reference to credit card bill above). Even now I get so excited on Christmas eve that I can barely sleep, and that is less about what father Christmas is going to bring me and more about the prospect of seeing family and just having a fun time with everyone. Tonight it feels like the whole Christmas thing it getting started with our team night out, then tomorrow another night out with my parents for my dad’s birthday.
For the next couple of weeks, I may probably steer clear of NHS doom and gloom and write about positive Christmas / family related things because actually I want to forget the problems associated with life in the NHS and be happy!
EuroYank said,
December 15, 2005 at 8:27 am
You should move to Luxembourg and enjoy the good life. Its only across the pond from you!
Julie said,
December 15, 2005 at 8:39 am
What is in Luxembourg I would like so much?
Jeff said,
December 17, 2005 at 12:40 am
All of your fellow countrymen live next door?
Thanks for linking me…..
Merry Christmas if I don’t get back before then.
Julie said,
December 17, 2005 at 8:29 pm
Of course Jeff, don’t yours? Merry Christmas to you too!