Highlights for the coming week:

• Tuesday- Another observational shift in Emergency Operations Control, I'm supposed to be there from 8:00 till 13:00, but I might stay later if the fancy takes me and the EMDs can tolerate me.
• Wednesday- I'm observing on a Patient Transport Service Vehicle from 7:30 till 15:00, I know it isn't tearing about the streets of London on blue lights and sirens, but it allows you to talk to people from all across life. I like listening to stories.
• Thursday- A 7:00-19:00 observational shift on a Fast Response Unit. Needless to say I'm, as they say, "bricking it", especially as I'm with a training officer.

I'll do a much more detailed post about each as it happens, although I don't know when I'll be able to get them up, as between Wednesday and Thursday is a long trip from south London to my home, and then leaving home Thursday morning about 5:00ish (probably earlier) ready for the 7:00 start at a station in north London. I was told specifically to be there 15 minutes early, which translates to me being at least an hour early in the oddly twisted method of logic that I enjoy practicing. Big things are happening!

On Thursday I was strapped to one of these,

, and lifted up. My group then decided to turn me upside down. I shall never again make the statement: " I don't believe that velcro alone can hold me to that thing, let alone when I'm upside down!"