Return of 'The Flying Scotsman', UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390233/Flying-Scotsman-returns-tracks-time-decade-4-2m-refit.html

New health guidelines, UK.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3387992/Red-wine-s-not-good-Major-shake-alcohol-guidelines-set-rubbish-health-benefits.html

Prosecuting at the drop of a hat in the UK.

http://theconversation.com/instead-of-prosecuting-those-responsible-for-fgm-we-went-after-a-doctor-doing-his-job-37201

Cancer death rates rise fastest in Britain's fattest region

The highest increase in cancer death rates in a decade were recorded in Copeland, Cumbria where 75 per cent of the population are overweight or obese - the highest in the UK.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2843751/The-alarming-map-links-obesity-cancer-Death-rates-rise-fastest-Britain-s-fattest-region.html

Goodbye to Golden goodbyes in the NHS, UK.

'Golden goodbyes' for NHS managers to be clawed back if they return to health service ...but only if they don't get a job for a year

Treasury minister Danny Alexander vowed to end the revolving door of highly-paid administrators handed golden goodbyes worth thousands of pounds before walking straight into another role.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2810675/Golden-goodbyes-NHS-managers-clawed-return-health-service-don-t-job-year.html

29 October 2014

How we are WRONG about everything.

A new survey by IpsosMORI shows the public's views on think immigration, teenage pregnancies, ageing and unemployment are all much higher than reality.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2812301/Why-WRONG-teenage-pregnancies-jobs-number-immigrants-Christians.html

30 October 2014

No tea-break, NHS, UK.

NHS hospitals ban workers from having a cuppa at their desks in case it makes it look like they're not working hard enough

Bosses of Leicester’s three hospitals have brought in the rules after complaints from patients who were already 'inflamed' about long waiting times.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2800113/nhs-hospitals-ban-workers-having-cuppa-desks-case-makes-look-like-not-working-hard-enough.html

21 October 2014

You’re a nation of sex-mad, drunken animals...

For Joao Magueijo, a Portuguese academic who has spent most of his adult life in the UK boasts a TV series on The Science Channel, his revelation came when he vomited on the Master's wife.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757104/You-nation-sex-mad-drunken-animals-appalling-personal-hygiene-rotten-food-That-s-verdict-Portuguese-professor-s-lived-25-years-insists-loves-us.html

16 September 2014

Teaching baby to crawl.

Rrr-epeat after me! Buddy the dog shows seven-month-old baby girl how to crawl in adorable home video

Valerie Stevens-Scott from Atlanta, Georgia, filmed the family pet giving her seven-month-old daughter, Allie, an impromptu how-to session this month.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666124/Rrr-epeat-Buddy-dog-shows-seven-month-old-baby-girl-crawl-adorable-home-video.html

English in the UK - email 'Kalu Nana'.

Hi Philip

1960 Medical Batch

Please share with our batch mates

Kalu Nana

Written English in UK. I bet you cannot beat these in Sri Lanka 

 

 

 Only in Britain -Complaints to Councils

Extracts from letters(genuine) written by council tenants in UK:

1. It's the dogs mess that I find hard to swallow.

2. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.

3.. I wish to complain that my father twisted his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.

4. Their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

5. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other day that blew them off.

6.. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?

7. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.

8. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant.

9. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen...

10. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster, and 50% are just plain filthy.

  11. The next door neighbour has got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it any more.

12. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

13. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.

14. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and now is in three pieces.

15. I want to complain about the farmer across the road. Every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me.

16. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.

17. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it.

18. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.

19. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.

20. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction.

21. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC2.

22. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.

 

 

If you have already seen this, Ignore but if not enjoy.

 

Kalu Nana

 

C.S.Nanayakkara