191

Today when I arrived at work I saw that we had got our new ambulance back (191), I say new loosely as 13 months ago it was new, but it was hit through no fault of the crew, on its way back to base, by an elderly man who lost control of his car.
The damage was estimated at £43,000 it has taken all this time for the vehicle to be repaired!! My Crew mate today was one of the crew members who were involved in the accident, he was actually collared and long boarded from it last time he saw it.
We are glad its back though as we have been getting loads of spare vehicles which no one has looked after so they are looking battered.
I was hoping to write about at least one of the jobs we went out to today, but unfortunately we didn't have any! This is unheard of, we sat on base and watched The Matrix, and Love Actually and several bad day time tv programmes and I was able to nearly finish reading my book.
What a random but strange day, I dare say I will pay for it tomorrow or on nights!
For now I will savour the thought that I had a very chilled day and got paid for it! don't think we often have instances like this, normally we book clear from a job to go straight out on another one.
( the head lights flash left then right as do the grill blues, we don't have a bulb out!)