I need to re-instigate my ranty blog!!!
Just thought I’d check up on some details for a duty we are lumbered with for tomorrow. It’s one I said last year we weren’t doing again due to the noise and the number of drunks adn morons we had to deal with. We did manage to shift today’s stint to someone else but thanks to internal politics and someone who has yet to learn to ask the people who know before saying things, we are covering tomorow.
All hte event info round town says it starts at 11am. The sheet we got when the duty was booked says 11am adn that it is a fair (ie stalls, bouncy castles etc) with music acts on a main stage (so every teenager with a cheap copy of a Fender and an amp gets up there to rapturous aplause from their mates and screams down the mike 
. ) They didn’t mention the troupe dancing starting at 10am, nor the it’s a knock out at mid day. And to cap it all on the really professionally done website (not) they say the first aid cover is provided by the St John ambulance. Now, i’ve been covering this festering duty for the last 4 years and last time I looked the uniform had these funny little red plus signs on the shoulders….. actually, maybe we just won’t go, they can complain to the SJA for lack of cover then can’t they…..
Sigh, I’ll take my knitting, keep the county on call staff number handy for when we run out of ice packs and bandages for red legged troupe dancers and remind myself that worse things happen at sea 
At least we have an air conditioned ambi to keep cool in.
