5 December - Department of silly blogs
Lame Excuses Department
The aunt in East Ham was transformed from a remarkably self-sufficient 97
year old to a gibbering wreck over the weekend and she is now tucked up in Newham hospital. I’m not sure yet whether that will result in more spare time for BiB or less.
Fearing a stroke or worse the initial diagnosis has proved far more encouraging. A
thyroid deficiency that is off the scale, lowest the consultant has ever seen,
resulting in hypothermia (33°), extreme confusion and near total loss of voice.
She has always had a thyroid deficiency and now I learn it should have been
tested every six months and it was last tested in the summer of 2014.
The GP simply refused to make visits insisting the old lady phoned and made
an appointment in the normal way. Despite complaints I got a doctor out only once
in those three years - for a leg ailment - after threatening to call the MP for East Ham
and claiming him as an old school friend. Not entirely true, we went to the same
school but I am twelve years older than he is. But I once shook his hand in church!
Rather too late in the day I realise that being constantly cold and running
electric fires throughout the summer was an alarm signal a doctor might recognise when I didn’t.
So don’t ignore it if your old folk are always cold.
Criminal Investigation Department
Elwyn Bryant and I spent an afternoon refining the Craske cover-up Appeal letter to
the IPCC. We were looking at the bit of the DPS report on what happened right at
the beginning of the failed enquiry when two police officers went to chat with a
few people in Bexley Council’s Chief Executive’s office.
The police should have interviewed the Council officer who Elwyn and I had been with who would
have known everything that showed up on the obscene blog fewer than 24 hours later, but the police
could not remember much about it and any statements had gone AWOL.
Elwyn had a brainwave, a vague recollection that he knew more about that meeting
than the police pretended to. We found the evidence.
Back
in 2011 the police didn’t know one blogger from another and their malicious
politically motivated prosecution of the blogger then known as Olly Cromwell muddled
his blog with Bonkers. The police actually sent out a press release with my name on it
and not Olly’s, but that is another story.
Buried in the Olly Cromwell evidence bundle is the statement which reveals the lies told by Bexleyheath police
officers - it is written evidence that what they said to the DPS was not entirely
truthful. The DPS may not have known about the statement, it was filed with the wrong case papers.
Bexleyheath police were not really in the Civic Offices to investigate the
obscene blog they were discussing how the tables could be turned on the victim,
which may partially explain why Chief Executive Will Tuckley wrote to Bexley police
suggesting they try prosecuting me for its publication.
So there are a few revisions to the Appeal letter to be made.
History and English Language Department
Someone
with a long memory has sort of suggested why Cheryl Curr is off her head.
A newspaper report from 2001 reveals how a camel had the good sense to throw her
over its shoulders and bounce her along a road in Cairo.
Maybe the injuries are more permanent than at first thought.
Not that the head teacher has things all his own way in this debate. Some
readers are hot under the collar about a school Principal who cannot spell principle. Quite right too!
Street Cleaning Department
Bexley Council, on behalf of the blog addicted Peter Craske, is looking for a
name for his new street cleaning toy. The Council has thought it
worthy of a Press Release.
That Craske should be besotted by something that will spend most of its working
life in the gutter is entirely natural but a catchy name will be hard to find.
If I suggest one it will be ignored.
So that rules out a reader’s Porno Pete and, from one of BiB’s surprisingly
large number of readers with parliament.uk email addresses, Liar McLiarface.
God Save Us from Sadiq Khan Department
The dominant bus theme at Transport User meetings is how passenger numbers are
in decline, the reason being that buses are just too damn slow. I have stopped using
them for that exact reason.
So in another example of joined up thinking the gormless Mayor has decided that
making all main roads 20 m.p.h. zones is a good plan.
When we get autonomous buses capable of driving themselves - with a driver on
board I must add before anyone gets too excited - they will not be capable of
exceeding speed limits so then we can be sure that bus journeys will be even
slower and TfL revenues will fall even more.
Believe me, it will happen.
Useless Head of Waste Department
Not another Steve Didsbury three weeks overdue FOI story, but close.
Bexley Council has issued
another of its Press Releases and its
street
bins for plastics are for the chop. The problem is contamination and it is a very real problem. But is the solution to take the bins away?
If I was a bin contaminator seeing no plastics bin I’d just dump my stuff in the paper bin instead. How is
withdrawing bins ever a good idea? The Council says the contents of a
contaminated bin have to go to landfill, but so will the rubbish strewn around
the streets. Who is gaining by Bexley’s move, except perhaps the people who run the service?
Christmas Decorations Department
The Abbey Wood Traders will gather for their monthly meeting in the Abbey Arms this evening
and not a drop will be drunk, never has been so why change things just because Christmas approaches?
I will be sworn to secrecy again so if the Councils have anything interesting
to say I will try to keep shtum. However I will try to find out who is
responsible for Wilton Road’s Christmas lights. I do not remember seeing them in
previous years and none of the traders I have spoken to, even the Chairman of their
Association, has any idea where they came from.