22 February -
Ancient and Moderna
It’s been a funny old day. Yesterday I was asked to write up a piece of GPO
history which may appear elsewhere before long. I was awake half the night
thinking of how it could be structured and lots of old memories came flooding
back. Even so it took more than six hours to poke into shape despite the initial
draft being complete in less than a couple of hours. I think I have had enough
of keyboard work for today.
While I was doing that the landline phone rang several times from an anonymous
number. I don’t usually answer anonymous numbers, they are usually solar panel
scammers but I relented after a while and found it was Bexley Council reacting
to my Brown Bin cancellation - or rather the complaint about being unable to do so.
The lady did her best to be helpful and we agreed a bin cancellation date and she
accepted that the instructions to cancel on line were of no use to the average
resident without a Bexley Council account. She was similarly sympathetic to my
complaint that calling from an unidentified phone number was none too clever
when it is simple to generate an ID of any number they like, such as 020 8303
7777 perhaps. Even Indian fraudsters can do that. Iְ’m not sure where Bexley got
my land line number from, not that I am bothered by it.
I have already received offers to do a bin share.
Something
that is a bit more concerning is
the health issue highlighted here eleven days ago.
A reader (not a local one) who looked at the videos said that the photos of the
white vein blockers looked to be rather too similar to those shown to him by his
consultant following a scan. He was told it was a build up of cholesterol in his
veins and needed to be flushed out as a matter of urgency.
Maybe the reader was mistaken because Google tells me that cholesterol does not
accumulate in veins. Arteries, yes. Veins no.
I do seriously wonder what damage this government has inflicted on a panicked
population and maybe I can guess why they have had to fiddle with the excess deaths statistics.
Maybe Councillor Leaf should be more circumspect when bragging that Bexley
vaccinated more people than any other borough as he did at the last Children’s Scrutiny meeting.
Maybe not an appropriate place for an announcement but the basic site text size
when in portrait mode on a smart phone was increased by 16% today. It may take a
while for it to overcome your browser cache etc. Will anyone notice?