not enough work

Is not something I say very often, especially on one of my "long Wednesdays" when I do a surgery in the morning and a baby clinic in the afternoon. But this morning there were only 13 patients to see (it's usually more like 20-22 plus)and this afternoon, just 5 babies required my attention. Damn the unpredictable workload in general practice! All I have to read is a collection of weak, middle-of-the-road short stories. I tell you, mine are better than most of these.

COMMENT

Tomorrow, we will see the second "leaders debate". Or rather, you might; I'll find something else and follow the media later to see what happened. But I imagine someone will ask about immigration, and, like last time, they'll prevaricate, saying they too are concerned about the dusky tsunami of illegals and how to stem it. They won't say that when our economy is booming we need all the Poles or whatever we can get. And they certainly won't invite the audience to consider the awful historical legacy of empire, that we might actually have a moral obligation to all those countries we exploited so expertly, leaving this insignificant little off-shore island, still, years after the dissolution of the British Empire, one of the wealthiest countries in the world.