Just happened to me. IP address 171.25.193.77
Thanks, Key for the tip off.

Hmm… the ‘Beeb’ has a quote suggesting that it’s a sub from 1916. If the sky image is accurate it looks a mite more recent than that. No encrustations or decay to be seen.

And the man doffing his hat to the stewardess! Great little film.

Thanks for the update, wishing Tony well.
You’re right, of course, for all our moaning, where else?

I guess it comes from the childish assumption that a twenty four hour service should be run on a twenty four hour basis. I do understand that many of the NHS’s activities are closed down at weekends, Outpatients clinics, for example. But the Inpatients should receive the same basic level of care at weekends as during the week, (accepting that routine tests etc might be weekday activities). I must state that during the time I referred to earlier I got nothing but superb care on the wards, and I roadtested four different wards in the same hospital during that year. The ward staff were however, thin on the ground at the best of times and more so at weekends. What I did find was that the reception/clerical staff with whom I came into contact, most especially in Radiotherapy, were rather less than charismatic. Once you got past them and into the hands of medical staff things improved enormously.
I cannot get my thoughts away from the idea that the Consultants and senior Doctors/Surgeons tend to pack up at about midday on Friday and head for the golf club. Urban myth? Dunno. But it’s a notion that first hand experience does not help to dismiss.

All the best, Tony from a new(ish)comer. I already realise how important a contributor to these pages you are. Linc, I too can relate – I was stupid enough to get an infection during chemotherapy on the Bank Holiday weekend that Prince William got married. County hospital was a ghost ship, one full of sick people!)))

Absolutely. And talk about cool in a crisis, we can now see the reasoning behind the course of action he took.

It isn’t an easy thing for me to say because sentimentally I WANT the history of the Battle, (among other things) to be taught. But, as Creaking Door says, it’s not necessarily necessary(!). God knows, I am aware of the debt we owe to those who served but the fact is, times have changed, we have moved on, (in no small measure because of events like the Battle) and I genuinely think that my own experience of the teaching of the Battle of Britain shows that most of us manage to muddle through without an intimate knowledge of these things. On this forum we are all to a degree enthusiasts and therefore our viewpoint is skewed in favour of the historical. To the majority (who still remain decent and law abiding despite the rantings of the Daily Fail), it’s all rather irrelevant.