I've gone back over the last month and have answered any questions that were put in the comments of postings. Remember, you can always get a quick answer off me if you email me. From some of the search terms that bring people here, I'd be more than happy to dispense my wisdom on those as well (If I know what I'm talking about).

I spoke to a copper from Limehouse today - they still haven't found the transit van with the Phosgene, that coupled with the 'attack' on the House of Commons yesterday seem to be reminding the Emergency (and 'essential') services that there is always the risk of trouble. Yet there hasn't been any information from the media, is this the "secrecy" that the Panorama programme was talking about?

If you want to know what is happening in Manchester with the Fire Service, you could do worse than to look here. Basically the FBU were made promises that have yet to be fulfilled.

Now time to relax and enjoy the fictional 24.

Today would be the last of my 12hr shifts. Except I'm doing over-time this Friday, I'm a bit of a whore for money at the moment, so I'll have the fun of a Friday night shift before my seven day shifts with an overtime shift at the end of that stretch.
I'm enamoured of blogging on the move, I use my PDA for all sorts of stuff, e-books, calendar and the odd game on a slow night; but coupled with the excellent (and not $90) Blogware it makes blogging from the cab a piece of cake. I'm writing this while sitting outside Newham hospital and means I can sleep and eat when I get home, rather than blogging as a 'duty to my readers'.
For the past couple of days we've not had anything that could be considered an 'emergency', lots of walking wounded and 'LOB' (Load Of Bollocks).
Our first call was a chest pain, who looked fine, if hypertensive with a history of angina, he hadn't taken his own GTN (angina medicine), so we got him on the back of the ambulance, did a 12 lead ecg - which showed an angina attack and gave him GTN and an aspirin.
Within a minute he was sweating profusely, his blood pressure had dropped and his level of consciousness had crashed, with little seizures. He became bradycardic and for a moment we thought he was going to arrest in front of us. It
Just goes toshow how quickly you have to 'wake uo'. Luckily for all concerned (especially him), it was just a 'vagal' attack brought on by an over sensitivity to the GTN (which is why he had not taken his own supply), so now he is comfortable in hospital and we avoided a ton of paperwork...
Now we are outside the hospital watching the planes taking off and landing from City airport awaiting our next call.
(And I've managed to have another fried breakfast - I'll manage to fit my 44" trousers yet...)