Saturday

Great day.

This morning was the first meeting of the St John Ambulance youth representatives of the British Youth Council. The BYC is an umbrella body representing the voice of (some) of Britain’s young people and encourages them to get more involved with shaping issues concerning us all. Their annual general meeting is next month, and the eight of us got together for this first time to work out how we were going to find out the ideas of youngsters throughout the organisation. With thousands of members, it’s going to be tough. The team are all really helpful and enthusiastic though, so hopefully we’ll get everybody’s voices heard.


In the evening it was Lily’s birthday. I haven’t caught up with lots of medical school friends since I started at Hammersmith Hospital, so it was great to see everyone again. The birthday girl had rented out our own karaoke room and we spent the night entertaining each other with our voices. Unfortunately, I was atrocious – toneless, tuneless and LOUD! Halfway thought a group of little girls entered, intrigued by all the warblings and sang their way through Britney’s ‘Hit Me Baby…’. They really did put us to shame.




I left at midnight, and on the way back home, came across this:

Alas the picture’s not too good, but it’s an overturned car. It was on Ladbroke Grove, where revellers were congregating in preparation for the Notting Hill Carnival. Things got a bit out of hand and a group of people flipped over the car and were dragging it along along the road before police got to the scene. I took a couple of quick pictures before sprinting back home on my bike.

I am a bit more worried about first aiding at the Carnival tomorrow though. Most people have a great time but with around one million people expected to attend this year, gang violence is once again expected. I just hope there aren’t too many collapses and head injuries to treat.

Till tomorrow.