Diary of a Suburban Squeen

It's blatantly going to rain again. Arse. Didn't bring my umbrella today as the sun was shining and all was right with the world. O what a motley fool I am.

And I've been updating my blog but, despite the cunningness of RSS feed, it's not showing up on my friends list. Is anyone seeing it who picks up cbb_squeen?

I am such a lemming. See how I leap foolishly into the whole LJ thing even though I have a perfectly good blog which I never update as it is. I succumb to peer pressure in a most shocking manner. The problem with the whole blogging concept, when you're me, is the whole tra la la isn't this fun oops I'm bored now factor. Which is a bit of a downside.

Anyway, I am feeling mildly optimistic at work because I just managed to solve everyone's alack-our-patient-management-system-won't-let-us-send-letters problem and thus feel learned and fine. Huzzah! *wonders* Hmm, can I get the NHS to foot the bill for that course in relational databases that the OU is running next year... Always worth a try, particularly since the Trust's Access course was beyond risible: the IT trainer had, he confessed, only read up on Access the previous night and had NEVER used it in real life. Hello? Where exactly did the concept of 'training others' run away to?

Hmm, so, proportional representation. You see, it sounds like such a fine plan. After all, how can it be fair for Labour to poll, what was it?, 36% of the vote and still have a majority etc. And I can see the point: arguably, it's not very democratic. But sometimes I think democracy has to give way to pragmacy (if that's a word, which I take leave to doubt). OK, you could have PR. But then you'd have Labour with 36% of parliamentary seats, the Tories with 33% and the Lib Dems with 23% (or however it worked out). And yes, that would be a better representation of the voters' choices, but the fact remains that you would simply end up with a series of minority governments and those kind that begin with C like during the war (I want to say collaborative but that's not right; when more than one party works together in government) which, as far as I can see, would be like tolling the death knell for political stability.

Ooh, and now Southwark PCT is trying to flog free tickets to the last episode of The Farm to its staff. I mean, what? Are they trying to melt our brains, or do they figure they've done enough damage and no-one would notice?