Dick Cheney, wow that guy is bad luck. He has a heart attack. His face gets covered with a black cross on CNN (below). He gets rocket attacked in Afghanistan. He goes to his GP yesterday with DVT, just at the same time there’s a conference in Seattle where they they have a new treatment for it. So of course I make a joke at work that he’s cruising for something. Then I go home and hear his former aide has been found guilty. I shut up.

Saw the new Denzil Washington film Deja Vu last night, which was good fun. Had my own predictive coincidence, noting a car with a big ribbon motif in the car park on the way in; which reoccurred in the film with the yellow ribbon; I’d noticed that ribbon after putting up the pink breast cancer logo on medicexchange, and downloading the International AIDS Day red ribbon on to my mobile recently.

I happened to catch sight of the Independent on Sunday’s front page story on the complex problem of racism in schools highlighted in Lord Adonis’s study. One paragraph caught my eye:

” The report recommends a campaign aimed at the entire school community to address the question of how black children are treated. It says the 20 worst-performing local authorities and 100 worst-performing schools for exclusion gaps must be supported to change their attitudes towards black pupils.”

Now not surprisingly having worked on the National Healthy Schools Programme (“to reduce health inequalities, promote social inclusion and raise educational standards”), itself a school-wide approach, my mind was taken back to that as a possible model for such a campaign in schools. Whats-more my former boss and head of healthy schools, Marilyn Toft, left in 2004 to become Director of the Behaviour and Attendance Strand of the KS3 strategy at the DfES. Here surely then is an invaluable source of experience, which will be put to good use?

So I debate who is the most desirable person to meet – Elton John (currently trying to ban religion and spread love) or HRH Elizabeth II (who’s been lucky enough to find a

Went to my local Persian cafe for lunch. Some guy comes over, it’s Shaid Awan who I haven’t seen for 23 years. He knew both Andrew and Mike Edgson having gone to Liverpool University. Far out coincidence. I ask him if he remembers if Gartree did a good fish pie, following Diane’s recollection of this on report of Shirley’s fish pie. He didn’t remember!