Happy Hippy Hospital Happening
fbb deliverd the creaky Mrs to PEOC for 0730 yesterday; she was first on the list and by late morning she was back in the ward eating a sandwich and drinking a cup of tea. Remarkable! Despite its problems, the NHS has done an absolutely stonkingly good job within the 3 month priority time slot hesitantly advised some weeks back.
PEOC? The mysterious acronym appears all over the place and stands for the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre.
The real-live Princess has aged a bit since!
Talking of that Princess ...
Purple Platinum Puffing Pulchritude?
Compared with the 1977 Silver Jubilee ...
... and the 2002 Golden Jubilee ...
... buses for this year's Platinum celebrations are few and far between. Is this because the bus industry is in a bad way and unwilling to commit to any "unnecessary" expenditure, or maybe a sign of caution in view of Her Maj's great old age and possible lack of longevity?
Not previously recorded in this blog is a feeble effort from First Berkshire ...
... and a much better effort from Go North East.
But take a trip to the Severn Valley Railway and a shock awaits you.The Battle of Britain loco used to look like this ...
... while the ever resourceful BBC mocked up a newsworthy version (?) on their laptop.
The loco will be officially named "Elizabeth" at the June Jubilee weekend. The Severn Valley Railway offers some comfort to dyed-in-the-firebox heritage enthusiasts by telling us that the colour will only be temporary.
fbb is not sure whether he thinks it is wonderful or absolutely awful!
To add to the fun you can buy an OO working model from Hornby ...
... at only £270!
But hurry! It is a limited edition of 1500 models.
Fortunately it is far too big for fbb's puny little layout, big in physical size and even bigger in price - well beyond fbb's pay grade.
Easter Monday Quiz Answers.
"Precedent" class.
Tube to sink in the River Seine to carry Metro Line 4
London Country, successor to London's green buses. The logo was quickly replaced by the National Bus "double N" logo.
Goathland (home of TV's Heartbeat) now on the North York Moors Railway.
A "Schools" class plastic kit from Kitmaster/Airfix
Easy peasy after the blogs, Liverpool Street before its rebuild.
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Today, ecclesiastically speaking, is Easter Saturday. A week ago a day which many label as Easter Saturday is, again technically, Holy Saturday. The thinking was that you cannot have Easter Saturday until after Easter Sunday. Never mind, Easter is a daft name anyway! The Norse God after which it is supposedly named is unknown in Norse countries. Only in the UK could we name the most important Christian festival of the year after a non existent scandinavian pagan goddess!
But, if the Resurrection challenges our credibility, the response to the brief return to a "human presence" of the Heavenly Jesus was even more dramatic in the early days of the Christian Church.
"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant, Jesus. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
As the members of the Council listened to Stephen, they became furious and ground their teeth at him in anger. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right side of God.
"Look!" he said. "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!"
With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once, threw him out of the city, and stoned him. They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
He knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, "Lord! Do not remember this sin against them!" He said this and died.
You need to be VERY convinced of the facts, or very very stupid, to risk this sort of treatment. And Stephen was the first of many and is joined by many thousands who lose their lives for their Christian Faith today.
Book of Acts Chapter 7
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Next Variety blog : Sunday 24th April
Glad all went well for Mrs FBB.
ReplyDeleteThe new Bradford bus though is diesel - entering service 50 years to the month since the last electric (trolleybus) operated.
ReplyDelete"fbb is not sure whether he thinks it is wonderful or absolutely awful!"
Well, the dog wasn't impressed!