Saturday, December 30, 2006

The Blind Leading The Blind

Track of the day - Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly.

cancelled_christmas 2006The postman delivered a letter from Bogsville's Eye Hospital this morning. It read as follows -
Dear Mr Bogs,
CHANGE OF OPTHALMOLOGY CLINIC APPOINTMENT
Unfortunately it has been necessary to change your appointment on Monday 5th March 2007 at 12:00 noon.
Your new appointment is now
On Monday 18th June 2007 at 11:40a.m.
We apologise for any inconvenience this change has caused.

Excuse me but we have been here before. The June appointment will eventually be cancelled because the rules and regulations governing NHS appointments allow up to two cancellations.
For the last two years the first two appointments have been cancelled and the third one has been honoured.
Next year there is the added complication that as Bogsville's Hospital Trust is millions of pounds in debt, they have decided to sell the eye hospital buildings to property developers. By March or June 2007 at the latest the Opthalmology Clinic should be well on the way to becoming an exclusive housing development. I expect the new occupants of number 23 will be thrilled to bits when I turn up for my annual glaucoma inspection.
I'm afraid it is another case of the blind leading the blind.
Which reminds me for some reason or other - How's the free Bee Gee holiday in celebrity infested Miami progressing Tony? I see you and George finally fixed that Saddam Hussein. Lucky he was the only one not wearing a mask, otherwise they might have topped the wrong guy.
P.S. Thanks for the gratuitous stills from the home movie too.
Now that you've got that unpleasant business out of the way, see if you can fix the National Health Service will you? I'd just like to point out that every time my glaucoma appointment is cancelled you seem to be 'all expenses paid' holidaying with a celebrity pop singer.

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