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On yer bike!
Housing is an issue that has been a consistent backdrop to all of the work that I’ve done since I began working in statutory social services. There is a massive shortage of affordable housing. This leads to overcrowding, poor conditions and some heightened...
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29 Jun 2010 6:51 AM
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Fighting Monsters
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Random Round-up
As I’m still creaking back to normal, I have come across a number of articles that made me consider and ponder which I thought I’d share. It is a little hotch-potch of different things about a variety of subjects but that’s just the way my brain is working...
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28 Jun 2010 6:47 AM
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Into the Deep End
While I’m still recovering at home, my thoughts are turning over a number of things as they come up and I suspect while I am still off work, I’ll be considering some more ‘memory’ posts to keep me on top of things. After I qualified, well, actually a...
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25 Jun 2010 5:21 AM
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Initial Budget Thoughts
Osborne delivered the so-called ‘Austerity Budget’ yesterday. Cuts we were expecting and cuts is what we got although, and there is nothing original in me saying this, the ‘We’re all in the together’ mantra does ring a little hollow when it’s delivered...
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23 Jun 2010 7:10 AM
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Cutting the Fat
Yes, it’s Budget Day today but I felt the analysis is better suited to a discussion after the announcements have been made rather than trying to second-guess them although we can say without any doubt that cuts are the order of the day. On the barest...
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22 Jun 2010 6:56 AM
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Cuts
Some of the coalition’s plans to cut the national budget deficit are beginning to take shape and we are beginning to see where the ‘pain’ will be felt. As I have previously remarked, the atmosphere within the service where I work anyway, has most definitely...
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18 Jun 2010 6:57 AM
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Engaging with the Television
As I’m getting to my feet, one of the most difficult things I’m finding in the ‘recovery’ phase is trying not to do too much. I am over the initial stages when I couldn’t really much very much but at the point when doing too much (which isn’t very much...
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17 Jun 2010 7:26 AM
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In Hospital
I had never been in hospital as an in-patient before – at least not in my memory. I have vague recollections of an admission as a child but didn’t remember any of the details excepting the fact that I couldn’t eat and that made me sad! So...
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15 Jun 2010 7:51 AM
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Brief Update
I am back home again. I have been home for a few days. The operation was successful – actually, it was more successful than I’d been told it could possibly have been in advance – if that makes any sense (which it probably doesn’t without going...
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13 Jun 2010 8:34 AM
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A hiatus
This is my penultimate day at work before I go into hospital. I’d been considering what I would say to the service users I see regularly and after initially thinking about being a bit vague about ‘going away for a while’, I felt that didn’t sit comfortably...
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2 Jun 2010 6:20 AM
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Preparations
I’m just tidying up some of my bits and pieces at work in preparation for my surgery and recovery period. I have a student at the moment and the sickness is coming at an awkward time but provisions have been made for my absence. I wanted to leave...
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1 Jun 2010 6:51 AM
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