Only 1 of the 3 bastards who wrecked our Range Rover by smashing all the windows and back lights and leaving dents above and below the windows has been charged. I cannot believe it. Two of the sods were bragging to their mates that they had done it. One of the 3 who has not been prosecuted has made my life a living hell for 3 years including assault but he has got away with his evil doings every time. I am incensed. What is wrong with the Law in this country which allows these young hooligans to ruin peoples lives and totally get away with it.

At least one of the little sods who smashed our car windows and lights has been to court and is being prosecuted. We still have the problem but the boys that still hang outside the house are not so vile. One of them still threatens to burn our house down or 'take it to another level' but I hope he does not have the nerve to do it. What is this country coming to, inner city problems I can understand but in a sleepy country village? Is nowhere safe form these vile young people? Let the parents and teachers smack if necessary, it did not do me any harm and I had plenty from my mother. All my 4 brothers were caned at school and they are civilised people with impeccable manners.

A local news paper printed an article about all the problems we have been having with the evil little sods that hang out side our house in the bus stop shelter. I named there 'gang' tag and as a result the bastards have broken all but 2 windows of my husbands Range Rover, done considerable damage to the bodywork and lights, all in all over £4000 worth of damage.
Whilst we were up the road looking at the damaged car the sods sneaked into our front garden and broke the sitting room window with a rockery stone. There was not one inch of the room that was not covered in glass.
They hung around to see our reactions hiding in a nearby garden and thankfully the police found them and carted them off to the cells where they stayed for more than 24 hours. They are out on bail but I do not trust them (or their parents) to keep them in particularly as one of them already had a curfew between 7pm-7am (that was really effective!!)
Life in this village is certainly not idyllic at the moment nor has it been for the last 3 years, before that it was a little piece of heaven and this is all down to half a dozen sick minded individuals who should be locked up or sent to a boot camp alone with their parents who do not give a dam.

I spent my birthday making buffet food for a fund raising event this evening at the hospital where I used to work. I was on my feet for 7 hours to be precise making Tandoori chicken kebabs, mushroom vol au vents and cheese and bacon ones and some smoked salmon nibbles. I then spent some time on the phone with the Clerk of the parish council who has been contacted by the local newspaper to find out how to contact me. This was in response to an article in the local paper concerning vandalism in our village. The article was about the village toilets which have been totally wrecked and the wall smeared with excrement. I responded with a letter pointing out that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Now a couple of local rags want to do a more in depth story. I shall be glad to spill the beans warts and all since for the last 3 years the police have be unable to do sweet fanny Adams about it. Tonight my husband is taking me out to an outstanding restaurant. A high light of the day was when my friend the Vicar came to the door with her sister. She had her guitar and her sister a tambourine and they proceeded to sing a very jazzy version of happy birthday. Embarrassment scale 11/10 but very touching especially because I am a heathen!! Oh well, another year gone by, only 3 years to my free bus pass!

Well after 6 months of retirement I am going back to work for a while, so say just for 3 months to help reduce the waiting list of new patients to be seen. However, the Out Patient manager, bless her cotton sock, has away of getting you to commit to more before you have realized it! I do not know how I feel about going back (part time) I am not keen, I am enjoying myself, but when you train as a doctor you are indoctrinated with quilt if you are not seeing patients, whether it is due to ill health or retirement. Oh well it will supplement my crap pension and pay for Christmas presents.
The Health service is still going down the pan, literally with C Diff all over the place. A pal of mine went into the local hospital with D and V, samples were taken and several days went by before the results came back. When they did come back as C diff,THEN everyone gowned up and she was barrier nursed !no wonder it is spreading throughout the health service with that sort of stupidity. As it happens the hospital I work for has none of the super bugs because of good practice by everyone.

I purchased Spy detector from this company and loaded it onto my PC and Laptop. Immediately both my computers failed to function properly, the Laptop crashed. I removed Spy detector from both and eventually got everything working again by using systems restore.
To cut a long story shortish. I contacted the company and requested a refund. In their advertisement for Spy Detector they promised to refund, no questions asked within 30 days of purchase. Now, I actually asked for a refund the day after I bought it and do you think I can get a refund out of these Bastards, can I hell.
For the last 3 weeks we have been playing email ping pong. They want me to try certain things to try and sort the problem. I keep telling them I have removed the bloody thing and if they think I am going to reload a program that caused my Laptop to crash, they have another thing coming! It took my two bloody days to get it working again.
So after that rant all I can say is don't believe all you read in 'guarantee

Apart from listening to the Archers, which we do every Sunday, the next few hours were spent sticking Local Conservative News papers through post boxes. This was a first for me, I was doing it for my husband who is standing for the Council elections in May. It felt weird going up peoples private paths but I didn't see a soul so feel I got away with it lightly.
I was dying for a bloody pee and once or twice was tempted to find a secluded bush. Thank god there was a pub at the end of one of the routes.
I think I am getting ever so slightly addicted to 'scratch cards' on the National Lottery web site. I have done it 3 times this week and about 5 times a session. This is worrying.
Still no idea what pension I will be getting. The NHS works at a snails pace when it comes to important things, like MY BLOODY MONEY!!!
Unwrapped my 5 Dicksonian fern trees today in the garden, this guarantees there will be a frost in the next few days. Me, a pessimist? noooooooo!

Well in 2 hours I will have retired from the NHS. Definitely the right time to go with morale at its lowest, probably ever. A totally target driven Government which basically means more surgery is carried out on the least urgent cases (because they are quicker to do). These targets do not in anyway address conditions that cause long term suffering and disability such as, Arthritis, MS, Diabetes,cardiac conditions ( the wait for a cardiac ECHO can be a year) back problems (wait for MRI more that a year) Head Injury needing rehabilitation etc etc. Before this Government started to meddle your GP could send you anywhere in the country now 'you' have a 'choice' of 5 centers regardless of the expertise available. If God forbid you have Chronic Pain, Chronic Fatigue or Depression, the chances of you getting the correct therapy to improve quality of life is almost nil, since the PCTs (GPs) will not pay for the treatment ie Post Code discrimination. There is a lot of bloody suffering out there and the politicians in power are not aware of it and if they are they obviously do give a ****