(To the commenter above: lighten up. Forgive me for not knowing every detail of ambulance work. That's one of the reasons I read this blog, by the way. All I meant was that emergency workers have got to have some sort of base from which they operate. The suggestions were partly, if not entirely facetious. I'm sure Tom doesn't need me to tell him about earplugs. And I was envisioning an arrangement with cots, camping stove, coleman lantern. You know. So that everyone gets the message. The comment about it sounding bloody awful was not facetious.) Christ on a bike.