Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo Fireworks
The theatre on floor five of the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion on Chalmers Street part of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is surely one of the lesser known attractions at this years Edinburgh Fringe.
It is certainly one of its most intimate.
Performances vary in length, the one I attended lasted around 45 minutes, had an audience of one and a cast of ... well ... I’m not quite sure, so let me explain.
We’d arrived in Edinburgh by train, on Tuesday. We’d booked several things to see in advance and intended, as usual, to add others which we happened upon, whilst viewing previews and picking up flyers as we strolled around the city, especially along the Royal Mile.
It was whilst walking back to our hotel on Tuesday night from a Barnado’s Big Comedy Benefit at the EICC that I became aware of a problem with my left eye. I knew what it was. I’d had a similar problem with my right eye in 2010.
So Wednesday morning started early with a call to NHS 111 Scotland and by 9am we’d Uber’d to and were at ERI, seen by 10am and on our way by 11. I’d been given an appointment at the Eye Pavilion for 4pm that same afternoon.
There I was seen by a doctor and invited to come back the following day to get my eye put back together.
And so I’m contemplating the NHS.
The media tells me it’s doomed ... it’s in crisis ... it’s failing. It might have problems, true, you might even go so far as to say that they’re serious problems.
But no, I’m sorry, I don’t accept that, won’t accept that.
And neither will there heroic staff.
Some of you who no me well know I and my family have had occasion to use this wonderful institution rather more than we would have preferred to do in recent years: Has it failed us even once? NO it has not.
To the media, I would ask you to introduce a bit of balance to what is usually said about our NHS ... and just occasionally report about how truly brilliant it is and the staff working in it.
It’s also by the way a superb vantage point to view the fireworks at the end of each nights Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo Fireworks
The theatre on floor five of the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion on Chalmers Street part of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is surely one of the lesser known attractions at this years Edinburgh Fringe.
It is certainly one of its most intimate.
Performances vary in length, the one I attended lasted around 45 minutes, had an audience of one and a cast of ... well ... I’m not quite sure, so let me explain.
We’d arrived in Edinburgh by train, on Tuesday. We’d booked several things to see in advance and intended, as usual, to add others which we happened upon, whilst viewing previews and picking up flyers as we strolled around the city, especially along the Royal Mile.
It was whilst walking back to our hotel on Tuesday night from a Barnado’s Big Comedy Benefit at the EICC that I became aware of a problem with my left eye. I knew what it was. I’d had a similar problem with my right eye in 2010.
So Wednesday morning started early with a call to NHS 111 Scotland and by 9am we’d Uber’d to and were at ERI, seen by 10am and on our way by 11. I’d been given an appointment at the Eye Pavilion for 4pm that same afternoon.
There I was seen by a doctor and invited to come back the following day to get my eye put back together.
And so I’m contemplating the NHS.
The media tells me it’s doomed ... it’s in crisis ... it’s failing. It might have problems, true, you might even go so far as to say that they’re serious problems.
But no, I’m sorry, I don’t accept that, won’t accept that.
And neither will there heroic staff.
Some of you who no me well know I and my family have had occasion to use this wonderful institution rather more than we would have preferred to do in recent years: Has it failed us even once? NO it has not.
To the media, I would ask you to introduce a bit of balance to what is usually said about our NHS ... and just occasionally report about how truly brilliant it is and the staff working in it.
It’s also by the way a superb vantage point to view the fireworks at the end of each nights Edinburgh Military Tattoo