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I'm such an enabler. My mother collects egg cups, has done for most of her life. She must have 800+ in her collection. Now me, I don't really get the appeal, but nevertheless, I find that I can't walk past a charity shop without popping in to see if they've got any egg cups I don't recognise from the collection. I may not see the appeal, but I know Mum will be delighted, which is what matters. Picked up another unusual little one yesterday.
BBC News this morning is full of a report into the abuse of the elderly in hospitals and care homes. I was talking to my friend Molly about that just last night, as social services have just concluded their vulnerable persons report into the incident at UHW involving her husband Tony a few weeks ago. It seems the hospital have completely changed their story from what the family were originally told, but are still painting Tony as the villain of the piece, and the social worker believes them, without having even gone anywhere near Tony to find out what he is actually like. They think that because he's alcoholic they can say what they like and be believed. But the truth is that Tony is the gentlest man you could ever hope to meet and would as soon stop drinking as initiate any kind of confrontation. There is no way under the sun he behaved the way the hospital claimed he did. Alternatively, if by some chance he did become aggressive, that would be a very definite sign of altered behaviour and a symptom of the head injury that was his reason for being in hospital in the first place. Either way, the hospital staff behaved negligently and their security team abusively, and they are now covering their backs. It really is appalling.
I'm really enjoying the new series, Monkey Life, on Channel 5 at 6.30 each evening, following the fortunes of the Monkey World Primate Rescue Centre in Dorset. I've watched the show Monkey World on Animal Planet for years and years now, never religiously, but each episode is repeated often enough that over time you get to see them all. The move to terrestrial with Channel 5 is presumably lucrative for them, which is good - as a wildlife rescue centre they need all the sources of income they can find.
I was absolutely gutted at the end of the first episode on Monday, though, to learn that the founder of Monkey World, Jim Cronin, died after a short illness earlier this summer, aged only 55. Steve Irwin last year, Jim Cronin this - why is it that all these hard-working animal rescue types seem to die so young?!
BBC News this morning is full of a report into the abuse of the elderly in hospitals and care homes. I was talking to my friend Molly about that just last night, as social services have just concluded their vulnerable persons report into the incident at UHW involving her husband Tony a few weeks ago. It seems the hospital have completely changed their story from what the family were originally told, but are still painting Tony as the villain of the piece, and the social worker believes them, without having even gone anywhere near Tony to find out what he is actually like. They think that because he's alcoholic they can say what they like and be believed. But the truth is that Tony is the gentlest man you could ever hope to meet and would as soon stop drinking as initiate any kind of confrontation. There is no way under the sun he behaved the way the hospital claimed he did. Alternatively, if by some chance he did become aggressive, that would be a very definite sign of altered behaviour and a symptom of the head injury that was his reason for being in hospital in the first place. Either way, the hospital staff behaved negligently and their security team abusively, and they are now covering their backs. It really is appalling.
I'm really enjoying the new series, Monkey Life, on Channel 5 at 6.30 each evening, following the fortunes of the Monkey World Primate Rescue Centre in Dorset. I've watched the show Monkey World on Animal Planet for years and years now, never religiously, but each episode is repeated often enough that over time you get to see them all. The move to terrestrial with Channel 5 is presumably lucrative for them, which is good - as a wildlife rescue centre they need all the sources of income they can find.
I was absolutely gutted at the end of the first episode on Monday, though, to learn that the founder of Monkey World, Jim Cronin, died after a short illness earlier this summer, aged only 55. Steve Irwin last year, Jim Cronin this - why is it that all these hard-working animal rescue types seem to die so young?!
