Me to the rescue

Last night about eleven I was proceeding along the road when I saw a lady lying in the street - being a trained first aider I leapt into action. It was a lady with bad arthritis who had fallen over and could not get up as her knees were bad. She was also incoherent and very wobbly on her feet (maybe drunk but I did not think so). After she got back on her feet she was telling me she was fine and ok when she clearly wasn't before getting agitated and then almost falling over again, She started staggering down the road and looked like she was going to fall over but by clinging onto walls and gates she managed to stay upright. In the end I rang the police and told them what was going on and they said to follow at a distance until they could arrive but after 10 minutes staggering she disappeared into a house so I rang the police to tell them she was fine and went home. I hope she was alright.

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I am not going to write about any more electoral advertising as I am getting so much.

Norwich City 4 lost to Dragons 2: Some goals to 1

This was the last game of the season and this cannot be the last season I play as that was one of the most frustrating I have every played in as we could not score. The team got in excellent positions but the ball would not drop, it rolled around the rim, it bounced off the edge, skimmed the basket and everything but only on one occasion was a goal scored. Our opponents on the other hand were scoring everything including 1 handed off balance off the shoulder flip that was more pass than shot. In fact it was so frustrating I am going to stop writing.

Leaders debate 1.

I am looking for specific details about how they plan to change things not lofty thinking or dreams to follow. My thoughts as it happens.

Alistair Stewart - harsh but fair, can I vote for him.

Starting with immigration, a controversial topic.
All of the controls introduced by Brown have been EU specific.
Cameron - limits on people outside the EU even if they are needed (fails the star footballer argument) plus a border police,
Clegg - introduce new border control and limiting people to various people is interesting and I thought that it was unworkable but Cameron asked him to explain which was nice (made the star footballer argument).

All of them are very keen on saying where they have been to and listening. Brown far more eloquent than I expected him to be.

Poor advertising for Burnley - high burglary rates.
Crime
Cameron - more police on the beat, longer prison terms, linking to drugs and providing rehab.
Clegg - more police on the beat funded by scrapping ID cards, breaking the link between youth crime and adult crime through community punishment
Brown - record police, parental responsibility and powers to make the police. police forces merging if one of them is not performing

Annoyed by people using individual cases portraying UK to be really bad to make their point.
Brown -"It's not question time it's answer time"

Expenses - is this not already sorted.
Clegg - holier than thou, showed he was ahead of the curve, wants campaign funding changed, can sack MP's, elected Lords (boo)
Brown - elected Lords and 50% smaller (boo), recall MP's but this could be abused, must get more than 50% of the vote.
Cameron - less MP's, MP no pay rise, quangos, elected Lords (boo)
It is nice to have a group who make decisions that aren't based on the need to get re-elected but what is good for the country (my opinion).

Education - interesting
Brown - better qualified teachers, longer at school until 18 either part-time or full-time, good schools take over poor schools, maintain funding (is that happening?)
Cameron - not enough money to front line (well we have been well funded), good marking (already happens), set the schools free!!, no appeals on exclusions, proper discipline (how?), no NI rise making staff more expensive.
Clegg - bans government from micro-managing schools (a bit vague), more creativity in lessons, smaller class sizes (16? - did I hear that correctly), Saturday morning (that's not in my contract)

If Conservatives or Lib Dems get in there will be a budget in July - wonder what they will do with stamp duty?

Finances - went to the loo - might this have an affect on how I vote?
Clegg - I am being straight with you, we have costed our reforms, deal with the other issues such as Trident that we can't afford.
Cameron - we can cut the waste, plus we won't introduce the Job Tax, interesting to see that he is saying each person can save a little while Brown is mentioning the whole number.
Brown - we will maintain funding but Conservatives will cut more, tax rise though NI

Military are they under equipped and under paid. Don't they choose to do a job that pays this amount.
Clegg - too much spent on generals and ineffective weapon systems such as Trident - this can be used to fund better body armour and other
Brown - we have improved funding, deaths occurring in responding to new tactics from the Taliban
Cameron - need a defence review so that we can work out what is needed. Blame Brown for not providing them.

Health care - aging and costs of new medication
Brown - reducing cancer waiting times. we have provided more doctors and nurses and brought waiting times down, maintain funding, death rate
Clegg - everyone spends £2000 on NHS (half than the USA), take out a layer of management
Cameron - we will exclude the NHS from cuts (clearly they have no waste), we are worse than Bulgaria in cancer rates (assuming that people in Bulgaria didn't die of something else first).

Brown refers to Nick Clegg as Nick and David Cameron as the Conservatives. All wearing party coloured tie. Cameron looks a bit orange,

Eldery care (have we not already covered this)

Cameron - £8000 at 65 then get free care after that, wants to get it free but budgets gets in the way

Clegg - respite for carers each week, try to keep people in their homes where possible

Brown - staying in home free, free residential care after two years in the same place,

Everyone seems to be agreeing.

Interesting to see who "won". Guardian has it down as a Liberal win Telegraph as a Tory win!!

Attempt 4

An A3 leaflet/ pamphlet entitled Change from the Conservatives using the poor photo someone took of Chloe Smith. While this does not change my vote it does not do her any futures. The central plank of her argument seems she is going to cut waster by $11 billion. Good luck to her. Her own personal slogan appears to be "A record of Action" which considering the short period of time she has been elected is a little strong. Her achievements include holding regular surgeries (as she is legally supposed to) and joining a large number of committees including cracking down on cycling on the pavement.

She praised GCSE results but warned against reforms that add to the "burden of bureaucracy" for local teachers. Apparently the idea that we have fallen behind is because politicians have wrong ideas and devalued the exam system." This is on the day her boss announced that anyone can set up their own school, syphon funds from other schools in the area, choose who can enter and then be surprised when they don't add enough value and are sharply criticised by Ofsted.

Vote for Change: re-elect Chloe!!!!

First viewing.

Well the first house that we went to look round was very disappointing. I know it was near a main road but the noise was even louder than at my current house which is also busy and directly under the flight path for Norwich airport. Inside it was clear that the photos had been carefully staged to avoid the woeful bits such as the ensuite and even the best rooms did not seem as good as on the photos. Linked to this was the fact the front door was round the back in a strange configuration and the amount of jobs that would need attention meant it was taken off the list. It did reinforce the feeling that the Drayton/ Taverham area was one to focus on as it seems a nice area. Apparently 1 offer had already gone in £50,000 under the asking price and been rejected but it would have been close to value for money everything considered. However how you take away the road noise I don't know.

Norwich CIty 4 beat Norwich Ice 2 7:5

A fairly standard game. We were able just to stay ahead of the opposition who were good, well drilled but a fraction unlucky. In our division we had a player who was not very good so we kind of left him on his won as he was no danger to score and double teamed their best player and kept him to 1 goal. I scored a penalty and had a couple of other attempts which should have been closer. They were on target but a little short or long. We had a couple of good moves and we were able to pull away at the end.