Recent content by nottsnurse

Ah, perfect. I forgot all about Thameslink!

I (like many thousands of others I'm sure) was planning on travelling by train next Sunday from North of London (I'm in Leicestershire) to the Cenotaph Parade in London but, despite looking at a variety of options, I can't find anything that would get me into London by or around 0800. Is this...

Or just get rid of 1st Class altogether.

Hopping off the #3 as it struggled up Dulwich Wood Park Rd, on the approach to Crystal Palace Parade, was comparatively simple.

When I was in the military we once had a tasking to set up a FARP (forward arming and refueling point) at Brompton Barracks for an exercise. Tasking order had the location as "Brompton Barracks, Gillingham". Rest of convoy packet arrived at Gillingham, Kent. Fuel tanker driver (who had to pick...

Yes. Number plates registered in distant areas of the country are often stopped at night in known trouble spots. It's called proactive policing and is based upon sound logic and results.

'Detector' vans are a myth/scam. Arguably there was the vague chance they could have detected TVs when cathode ray tubes were the norm but now, given the multiple different ways programs can be sourced and watched? Not a chance. They have always relied upon the technological ignorance many of...

How you feel is immaterial. It wouldn't be you who had to approach a suspect package and make a decision whether to call Bomb Disposal or not. Having experienced the immediate effects of a comparatively small IED whilst in Afghanistan and still living with consequences of that incident (loss of...

When there is doubt there is no doubt, treat as a threat until confirmed otherwise. How quickly wider society seems to have forgotten the issues we faced during 'The Troubles'. Having to check my car for IEDs every morning with the torch/mirror that came with our married quarter is something...

Is it? Try telling the large number of my colleagues who are off with Long Covid and/or MH issues that have come about from working at the sharp end of the pandemic that it's "history now".

Do you know how many unions represent NHS workers? It makes dealing with the four that cover the railways appear easy.

Indeed. Many stoked up to resent 'foreigners/EU' by a MSM controlled by those with an interest in seeing the UK outside of the EU. 'Disaster Capitalism' at its most odious.

Please don't use my industry as ammunition for your quite obvious anti-Union diatribes. The fact many of my colleagues in the NHS are too gutless to stand up for their professions and demand reasonable pay rises is why my profession (nursing) has seen its pay effectively cut by a fifth since...

If that's the case then you must have stayed in a very small, very privileged pond. As I said, I don't know a single Trust that has a policy against traveling in uniform (aside from aforementioned specialist areas) and I've worked in 20+ in just the last 11 years. Here is an example of uniform...

I've worked for the NHS since 2011, with substantive roles in two different Trusts over the 11 years. I've also worked for a specialist nursing agency, which has seen me working in 20+ different Trusts. In that time I have never worked for a Trust which prohibits travelling to/from work in...