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@mrs_teapot wrote:
I dont think people realise what a big deal it is to get the tour de France to come here …. its massive.
My son in law is a keen cyclist… hubby got a bike three years ago. He proclaimed it was going to be fantastic and he would be fit as a fiddle in no time. First time out he cycled to a friends about nine miles away…. he rang me to pick him up….. after three years the bike is still in the friends garage waiting to be picked up. :D :D :D
Ah but Mrs T it is really your fault
You have not given your hubby a lift back to his friends so that he has cycle home
It is great to see the Tour de France will start in the UK and be there for three days in 2014.
I watched the Tour of Italy on TV this year (in german on my eurosport) when it started in Denmark
Sport has the habit of transcending boundaries and borders which is a good thing – though it is sad to see the attitude in a few eastern european countries
@boojangle wrote:
I don’t doubt that it will J …… but I was stating a fact!
yes it is a fact and an often quoted fact but until people stand up and say we need gun control in the US these things will keep on happening, and this was the second incident this week to happen over the pond
Once is too many but the multiple occasions it has happened in the US is perhaps a testament to the reason that people should not be allowed to bear arms, though the ability to access arms in the family home is another problem that needs to be addressed
@boojangle wrote:
Guns don’t kill people …. people with guns do :(
the ability to bear arms as allowed for in the US constitution means that guns are readily available and the accessibility to those guns means that what happened on Friday is sadly much more likely to happen again
Helen says be well take care and she enjoyed chatting with you
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@momentaryloss wrote:
I’m thinking of going into hibernation.
Bah Humbug!
:x
Ha Ha! It will all be over with soon Momes. :D
Only 12 sleeps left till Christmas
Please just remind me to do xmas shopping with one day to go
I remember him when he was on the radio 4 show ‘Just a minute’ – he often deviated and repeated words but never hesitated – and no one ever really challenged him because he was just so interesting
A person who brought the joy of astronomy to many people
A diverse character with many other skills, but also someone who had time for others
He will be sadly missed and well remembered
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@j_in_france wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
The prank was the most artless of bluffs.
Am I the only person who thinks that if a member of the Royal Family is in hospital, there should be some kind of password/keyphrase/pin number without which no-one gets information?
I was under the illusion that those around key members of the royal family were briefed and protected by skilled security and media advisers. but it seems their privacy can be accessed with nothing more sophisticated than a silly voice.
The nurses were failed by those who are paid to protect the Royal Family from intrusion.
I agree Words but also I have to ask what did the hospital management do to brief the nurse’s in the first place given the current stance now of the hospital blaming the Aussie DJ’s.
Apparently the nurse who was found dead moved to the UK nine years ago so you have to ask whether she would have even understood the difference between the accents that could have been Australian or British. We moved to France nine years ago and I can not tell the difference between French accents though they are significantly less regional than UK accents.
So imagine a nurse from a foreign country answering a phone call from someone saying they were the Queen, how intimidated would you feel and what would your reaction be to being told to pass you through to Kate?
Final question – why was it left to a nurse to have to answer the phone at 5:30 in the morning – skeleton staff at night?
If it all it takes to get through to the Royal Family is an English accent, maybe I’ll ring up in the morning.
Reality check, especially coming off the end of a huge scandal and enquiry about unscrupulous media tactics, no one, but no one should be getting through to the Duchess’s ward without some proof of identity – and I’m betting this wouldn’t be the first time Her Majesty would have had to verify her identity to one of her subjects.
What briefing was she given? Clearly not enough. And remember the barrier between the DJs and the Duchess’s personal information was not one, but two nurses thick, so it appears neither had any idea of what precautions they should take.
The DJs did, what DJs do, trying to entertain, we had our own spat with Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand last year. There’s no point in punishing them – for what? putting on a fake accent? They didn’t give away any information, it was freely divulged.
In my mind, the fault lies primarily with the Royal security/privacy people whether police, secret service or equerries. Interestingly there seems to be no mention of them in the media, just the hospital and the radio station. Bonkers.
So why were two Australian DJ’s able to ring a hospital in the UK and to be able to get through any Royal security measures (if any) and any hospital security measures (if any).
What it appears to boil down to is that two nurse’s trying to do the job they were trained to do were left in the early hours of the morning to become media consultants receiving a phone call that should never have reached them
