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Well it is near the end of November and we are getting close the coming of next years calendars. This means that in your local shopping centre there will be a calendars shop opening up.

I dont knwo how they do it but they make a absolute packet every year just through Christmas sales. I think it is tremendous you would of thought that the dawn of computers and mobile phones with calendars on them would of stopped sales of calendars but still they are getting sold.

Not only do you have caledners beign bought for the year of 2010 you also have advent calendars being sold for the first of December. This is always a big business as everyone and there dog wants a advent calendar for christmas.

This year I will have to buy about 7 advent calendars for family members as it is our turn to buy them. Also my gf alwyas likes a advent calendar in the house so she will want me to buy her one before the end of November. I think it is a good idea though a advent calendar always make the house feel a little bit more like a family home doesnt it.

moving forward from my last post, i do not wish to alarm the public at large, most mistakes made by doctors, junior or otherwise, are usually minor and are hardly ever life threatening. Most of the time tha patient is usually unnaware that a mistake has occured

At the other end of the scale you have cases like doctor shipman, who are exceptionally rare, whilst exceptionally frightening, the GMC, who are tried with regulatin GP’s around the country do a cracking job, cracking down on lax GP’s

you send them a complaint and they look into the case, they come back to you with the findings, its all gloriously english.

The problem that i see is wehn doctors are temping, the number of Dr Sings in this country it must be exeedingly hard to track these chaps down.

Food for thought if you are part of the GMC, and even more food for thought if your life ambition happens to becoming a doctor of death.

Research has shown a tiny but significant increase in the number of patients that die each year around the time that the new doctors take on the role for the very first time.

This worrys me, that means that if you are unfortunate enought to be hospitalised the same time the junior doctors begin work, you are MORE LIKELY TO DIE.

rather distubing, but then understandable. A salesman learing to sell a product will not sell as much as an experienced purveyor of the goods.

An boy learning to kick the ball for the first time is unlikely to score a hat trick for his local side.

these are simple facts of life. Junior doctors i salute you. and if its your first shift on the ward, pease let me know, i’ll get the life insurance up to date..

The Ulsters Teachers Union (UTU), and the Irish National teachers Organisation (INTO) have decided to merge thier compbined power to form A Irish teaching union which will bring all the separte shools under one roof, UTU traditionally looked after centrally controlled schools, whilst INTO looked after the catholic irish schools.

“While we have already been working together in a range of areas, we felt the time was now right to formalise our relationship with the formation of the joint UTU/INTO Board.”

A spokesman said today.

“The two unions representing the majority of Northern Ireland teachers in primary and post-primary sector, are pooling their resources to offer an even better service locally to Northern Ireland teachers.”

It seems there is scope for expansion in the field of school nurses after a survey from the Royal college of nursing stated that the average School nurse looks after an astonishing 2,500 students each!

The governments response is to  state that significant steps have been taken in recent years to yeduce the strain on School nurses and also state that it is moving forward in increasing the numbers of nurses in schools.

The nurses themselves are under increasing pressures to deal with the social care side of the job as opposed to the actual physical health of the children involved.

Janet Davies of the RCN says

“Overburdened school nurses are looking after too many pupils and it is children who are being disadvantaged.

“This report demonstrates that delivering this pledge would mean making as much progress in the next year as we have seen in the last four.”

What does being a manager actually entail? That you manage?

Well, we all manage.

What do people mean when they say that they’ll manage? They mean that they don’t really know what they’re doing, but that they’ll blunder through somehow; that they’ll somehow escape from a situation unscathed, barely succeeding in the face of their own ignorance and general incompetence. Management isn’t about triumph – it’s about getting away with things.

So why not go on a management training course? Learn how to muddle by more effectively. Learn how to muddle through a wider variety of situations.

On a management training course, you’ll learn skills such as retaining positivity in the face of relentless bank holiday traffic. ‘How are we going to cope with this?’ someone will ask. ‘Oh, we’ll manage,’ you reply.

You’ll also learn about having only one car, where before you had two. You’ll learn to manage through the use of public transport, cadged lifts and insanely complicated plans involving depositing the car somewhere and the other person picking it up later on their way back from such and such a place.

Finally, you’ll learn how to take part in complex activities with entirely inappropriate equipment. You’ll surf with your glasses on. You’ll rock climb with your dad’s harness from the 1970s. You’ll camp with only a quarter of the tent pegs.

In short: you’ll manage.

The easiest way to find a dentist is to phone the NHS line where you can register to be an NHS dentistry patient, give your name and address and then wait a year or so. Easy.

If you need a dentist sooner than that, maybe look for one who is operating privately. See if you can smell the wealth. There will probably be some sort of massive car outside their practice, but you’ll have to be alert. They probably only work for about an hour a day and they don’t actually care about your wellbeing. They care about taking your money and spending it on petrol.

Far and away the easiest way to find an estate agent is to buy a house. You will probably run into a few while you’re looking for a decent house to buy, but from then on, once they know about your existence, they’ll find you.

Firstly, when looking for a house, they’ll be sending you information about bedsits in Ashton-under-Lyne, even though you’re looking for a semi-detached house in the countryside. Then, when you’ve bought a house, they’ll be in touch daily to tell you that a mystery person is interested in houses (any house) in your area and would you like to sell.

If you need a lawyer, you can either approach one in their natural habitat or just haul one off the street. It’s probably best to opt for the latter approach being as meeting a lawyer in their office is a dispiriting affair and you can also see what your money is being spent on (mostly a desk).

So if you do decide to haul a lawyer off the street, how do you identify them? It’s quite easy. Look for shifty eyes, furtively looking around. Grasp those people by the hand and if that hand is greasy, they are either a lawyer or a paedo.

Finding an IT professional is an easy task. These people are computer nerds of such unparalleled nerdiness that they’ve opted to make nerding around with computers their career. So look for IT professionals in places where nerds tend to congregate.

I’d suggest the following places.

• A comic book shop
• The computer game section of the supermarket

Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, nerds frequently opt to purchase their comics and computer games online so that they can remain in their bedrooms working on their sickly pallor.

However, there is one event to which all nerds and therefore all IT professionals are irresistably drawn: a ‘bi-mon sci-fi con’ – a bi-monthly science fiction convention.