Today is the longest day north of the Equator, and so as I watched the sunrise (which I do most days, it just that today I take more notice of it), I thought this is the day to go to Brighton. OK, so not all my ideas are brilliant!
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It was lovely and sunny, hurray. It was full of traffic, road works, building works. boo,boo,boo.
I found a nice pair of shoes in the shop that is realy quite resonable in price. They were advertised as reduced by three pounds a pair. When I got to the till the price came up as £7.99. "That's not right" I said to the young lady assistant "They should be £4.99". "That's the price that has some up on the computer" she replied. To cut out the need for lots of quotations I will paraphrase the rest of the conversation. I told her the price was wrong, she said it wasn't, I asked to talk to the manager, assistant said she knew the stock of the shop and there was no need to call the manager, I pointed out that the advertising said these shoes have been reduced and there is something in the UK called the Trade's Descriptions Act, this brought the manager!, I appologised to the manager and said that to sound threatening was the only was to get the assistant to call her, and I was proved right, the shoes were only £4.99. As they were a last pair in my size, and such a lovely shade of pink, I thought it worth puting up a fight to get them (at the right price). So never be afraid to stand your ground, however much you desperately want to just pay what is asked and not make a fuss.
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I see that the local hospital is under threat well and truely now. I cannot understand why in a country that has money by the bucket full to throw away on schemes that don't work, or go over budget by millions, or only work if lots of extra cash is spent on them, there is never enough money for the essentials.
No doubt there will be a fight put up, and it may even result in the hospital getting a bit of a reprieve, in the long run the authorities will do what they like, as they always do. And why do they get away with it? Because the majority of british people wont make a fuss. In the long run they will put up with what they get, even though they are paying the bill.
