The first is that there is a time to stop wearing light coloured trousers.
The second is that reorganisations always come just when you are getting the current system right.
The chances are that the next reorganisation will come up with the novel idea of locally based generic social work teams, and we’ll all be back at Springwell again.
On a visit to a hospital the Prince of Wales goes up to a bed and asks the patient how he’s doing. The patient whispers “We sleekit cowerin, timourous beastie”. At the next bed, the patient answers, “A man’s a man for a’ that”. Puzzled, the Prince of Wales moves on to the next bed and the patient says, “My luve is like a red red rose”.
The royal visitor then asks the nurse “What’s going on? - “It’s the Burns unit sir”, she says.
Such is the fame of Robert Burns that people get that joke all across the English speaking world – and further.
