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Create - lets do it again (this time it's music)...
Posted Jun 3, 2012
I really enjoyed hosting last month's create challenge. I love writing for h2g2, and I love the way that the entry will grow and change in peer review. I've really enjoyed writing for h2g2, and I hope to do more of it.
The problem is that what tends to stop me writing for h2g2 is, well h2g2. I would love to write an entry, but I end up discussing something on h2g2 itself, or getting involved in cat hearding. But sometimes I just need a bit of a prod, a hook and an idea. That was why the Create challenge of 'Hobbies' worked really well for me, I already know about my hobby, so all I needed to do was write it down.
I loved seeing how other people's entries on hobby's came together, it was amazing to see all the different hobbies, from Hoovooloo's entry on flying to Deke's wonderful on flying models. Not to mention 2legs on 'Zen and Baguettes'.
A few of the entries were last minute jobs for the deadline, you'd think that the quality would be poorer, but it certainly wasn't, the entries were excellent. When I took on the May challenge I was struggling to think of one entry I could write, but now I'm back in love with writing for h2g2, and I'm fizzing with ideas.
So now we're in June, and the challenge is to write about our favourite music, or even the music we hate. This is also a pretty wide ranging challenge. I'm going to write a review of the first Opera I went to, but we've all got a first record, and a favourite band, and only some of them have been covered as extensively as Billy Joel....
What are you going to be writing about?
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Latest reply: Jun 3, 2012
Going on Strike
Posted May 30, 2012
I just got an e mail calling me out on strike. I never thought that would happen. I can see the reasons for the strike (the NHS pension scheme makes money, the contributions cover the costs, the extra contributions and raise in pension age wouldn't go into the pension scheme anyway) and I don't think patients will be harmed, because we're being told to go to work anyway, and attend to any duties that can't be postponed. My feelings are a bit mixed though, it all feels rather selfish.
The impact on patients will be less than the impact of a bank holiday, there will be more staff available than on a Saturday or Sunday, and we have an extra one of those for the Jubulee so I guess it isn't that bad.
I wouldn't have minded striking against the NHS reforms or the privatization, in fact I'd have been on the picket line. But I'm aware that the patients who will suffer are worse off than we are. Also I think it will just make us look bad in the eyes of the public.
I don't think it will affect me because I'm not paid by the NHS, I'm paid by a university. I do have £0/0 hours NHS contract so I can do clinical NHS work for free should I want to. I do wish we'd taken strike action against the NHS bill and not this.
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Latest reply: May 30, 2012
The Parents Flip Point
Posted May 15, 2012
The world according to my office....
Our parents : until we were about 30 or so: 'Please don't have children, think of your career, get qualifications'
From the age of about 30 onwards : 'What do you mean you're getting *more* qualifications! where are my grandchildren!'
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Latest reply: May 15, 2012
My Brain Arrived!!!
Posted May 9, 2012
No not my Brain, but my Brian Jelly Mould. I've finished recruiting for my study and I am providing a celebratory cake tomorrow to. 
My aim is that the taste won't matter - as it's far to anatomically accurate to want to eat.
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Latest reply: May 9, 2012
Can you write an entry on your hobby?
Posted May 1, 2012
I'm running the May create challenge : which is to write a guide entry on your hobby.
Would you like to join in? A87756475
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Latest reply: May 1, 2012
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