Do we really need to be told that?

With conference only three days away now, we seem to be getting almost constant barrage of emails from the organisers either trying to promote activities ( why I have no idea as most people who are going have already decided to) or reminding us of and I am hesitant to use the term as it sounds too strict "the rules".

Todays email was all about dress steandards. Now a basic email about the standards would have been fine, possibliy a mite annoying but it still would have been okay. The fact that they decided to add things to the list including a indepth description of what does and does not constitute Sunday dress seems just a bit conderscending. I'm hoping that this isn't a indication that they will be 'clamping down hard' again this year. If anything will spell the end of the national conference it will be negative word of mouth and treating YSA with the same strictness as youth is what seemed to cause a mini-exodus after the conference two years ago.

Not that I'm saying YSA shouldn't obey church standards, oh no. It's more that you need a different approach when running conferences for adults ( in physical age rather then mental in some cases :-) compared to ones for youth.

Still I'm just going to choose to hope that I'm reading far too much into this and the email was just down to over enthusiasm rather then strictness.

I had to laugh at the radio today, they had a chap on who admitted to illegalling downloading stuff off the internet. He said that although he knew it was a crime he was going to keep doing it as he didn't think it was a crime......
Good luck with that defence in court matey

Apparently in the debate in the USA over healthcare reform plans some opponents have been attacking obama by using the NHS as a example as why national healthcare didn't work. Our PM has fought back againist these attacks by posting 'twitters' in defence of the NHS. That's right he's twittering about it. Well there was a story in the press today which will probably end up being used as a 'example' in the US, as a man collapsed with a ruptured appendix three weeks after having a operation that removed it. Yes you read that right. Somehow they thought they had removed his appendix but hadn't.

But the story gets better as the hospital seems to be in need of a better PR man as well as the statement they released was
"'We are unable to comment on individual cases. However, we would like to apologise if Mr Wattson felt dissatisfied with the care he received at Great Western Hospital."
I can't think why this man might feel dissatisfied. Can you?

anyway,

Later folks