You Can't Coach That

Saturday, August 30, 2008

The Queensland health system seems to lurch from one crisis to another.

The lack of hospital beds is again in the news as patients are forced to spend hours in hospital corridors waiting for an available bed, sometimes for several days.

My jaw hot the floor though when I heard our esteemed health minister indicate that the shortage of hospital beds and the strain on the health system was partly because of the substantial increase in infrastructure undertaken by the government. He made the preposterous claim that because of this increase in facilities more people were using seeking treatment.

Can you imagine? There is an expansion at the local hospital, let's go and get ourselves admitted so we can check it out.

Gotta love those politicians and their "spin".

"You can't coach that"

Friday, August 29, 2008

Too long since I posted last. Too much to do and so little time. Started writing a novel which has sucked up all the creative juices.

Anyway, driving home this afternoon I passed a middle aged couple in a brand spanking new 6 series BMW convertible. Envious? Who me? Of course I'm bloody envious. But what's with the top down and windows up? Seriously, if you're going to spend the best part of $250,000 on a convertible, drive it like it was meant to be driven - wind in the hair and the growl of the V8 in the ears. I wonder if the air conditioning was on too?

"You can't coach that"