23^rd May 2009

Finally licensed to kill! I passed my First Aid at Work Certificate on Thursday. This time I took it with a group of teachers plus some others who worked for the County Council. Everyone was lovely and down to earth. Last time I took the certificate I was with:

· Two First Aid volunteers who didn’t want to disclose this information on the grounds they could be instantly failed because they belonged to a rival brigade.

· One bloke who used to be a First Aid trainer but had given it up because he had a falling out with others around him. He had been asked by his workplace to go on the course and seemed faintly traumatised by his past.

· The Commander of the whole region who hadn’t a clue what was going on.

I was the only normal! The Commander was the worst First Aider by far and barely scraped through his theory. However he made up for those deficiencies by being the prize letch.

Now I can have the privilege of bandaging some kids who have been fighting while my lunch sits uneaten in the staffroom.