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[andrew ivimey]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear, I need an early night what with the appalling toothache and a heavy schedule for the next few days. I couldn't resist switching on the 6S45Spud into 93dB speakers.

It is a very tight little 1 watt job and with 'After the Goldrush' it sounds lovely.

If I only had one amplifier I would be happy ... NOT.

There really is something immediate to one valve amps though as there is something glorious to 211s, GM70s (when they are right) and the totally preposterous 212s.

what was that phrase ...? 'all different, all valid'

I have a pair of speakers need rebuilding, am twitching about the definitive slate plinth for Lenco, but where is my soul?

Patricia Hewitt visited Bedford Hospital this afternoon - angel of death - will my wife have a job much longer, will I be gainfully employed? And David Cameron said, 'N H S' - you should hear what Oliver Letwin and the others have to say about anything (frightening!) and that sets me running to hide beneath the coat tails of Mr Brown.

Is music such sweet solace? Will it pay the bills?

[vitalstates]

Andrew

Go to the dentist!!!!!
much as I commiserate, I do prefer happy hifi tales...

Ed

[andrew ivimey]

I've been and wonderfully attractive and distracting at the time,she was, I am still in a great deal of pain.

[Paul Barker]

Incompetent management and leadership in the Nhs nearly killed me. I am SO GLAD not to be ruled by such nepotistic time wasting (many senior staff could be found playing cards on the computer, their display boards had the same flow chart on it for years) useless lumps of lard, soaking up the countries precious resources that should be handed to the ward nurse, the linch pin of your actual care. Instead they burden the staff nurse with yet another form to fill in from yet another overpaid agent of some organisiation which contributes nothing to patient comfort safety recovery coping or healing.

[Tweeker]

Spend that money on more nurses? Ridiculous, next youl be asking for a brand new needle every time.

[Paul Barker]

NO, take away from them the unnecessary form filling, door entry answering and telephone answering duties. Support them in these roles which remove them most of the time from direct patient care.

The form filling in hospitals is performed by every agency at least once, by paediatric nurses perhaps 5 seperate data gathering forms are completed for every admission, and children bounce back so quickly the turnover of forms is imense, a massivie pentlicate of effort.

Instead of playing patience the Nurse Managers could be organising from top down a more efficient structure, and could be standing up for the nurses saying NO to all the outside agencies (Health Visitors, GP's etc). Let the passing on of data to conscerned agencies take place in one central place as an administrative function.

A less efficiently structured and ruled organisation in the last two centuries it would be hard to find. The worst managed individual must be the staff nurse, only ever meating the "boss" for a military style dressing down.

My dad a GP in the '70s used to say that "the nhs was the second largest employer in the world, next to the red army. You can't say there isn't room for more efficiency!" His advise was to stay out of hospital as long as you can. Now that I have worked in a few I have to agree, whatever you do don't neglect your health.

[andrew ivimey]

um, er my 6S45PE spud amp is ****.

do you really want me to start on about the NHS?

Patricia Hewitt came to bedford Hospital on Wednesday. It really looks like the hospital will close. And then what will we do?

I have an idea about cathode bi-pass caps though.

[Brian C.]

Originally Posted by andrew ivimey

um, er my 6S45PE spud amp is ****.

Ah but did you build The Great El Spuddo Andrew?

Brian.

[andrew ivimey]

6S45 is back on the operating table - It does have another chance.

My tooth does not; indeed it woud already no longer be a part of me if the root wasn't badly infected,so antibiotics first, then the pliers - oh the pain.

The great elspudd won't be louder than what I have at the mo', indeed CheepnissMk7 is very loud indeed. It doesn't sound brilliant though.

6S45 (I'll call it Spudnik) is quieter and more balanced. The great one had ultrapath and a very detailed PSU. I ought to I suppose but am too irritable and weary of toothachepain to embark on anything serious right now.

Psuedoshunt for Cheepniss perhaps, though why on earth psuedo shunt should really be any more virtuous than a standard volume control is beyond me!

[Tweeker]

The form filling in hospitals is performed by every agency at least once, by paediatric nurses perhaps 5 seperate data gathering forms are completed for every admission, and children bounce back so quickly the turnover of forms is imense, a massivie pentlicate of effort.

Yeesh.

I just made my remark because nurses tend to be shorthanded around here.

Im pondering Ultrapath, but am not sure about my capacitor options for this role.