{"id":1670,"date":"2006-09-25T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/09\/blood_sweat_and\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:32:23","slug":"blood_sweat_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/blood_sweat_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Sweat and Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1905548230&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI saw Tom Reynolds give a talk about blogging from work a year or so ago at an NTK event, but I must admit, that I hadn&#8217;t really spent much time reading his <a href=\"http:\/\/randomreality.blogware.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<br \/>\nBlood, Sweat and Tea is a compendium of entries he&#8217;s made over the last couple of years or so, which means that it&#8217;s actually all available free on the web. In fact, better than that, you can download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefridayproject.co.uk\/books\/bst\/\">full text<\/a> of the book from the publishers&#8217; website.<br \/>\nBut I still went out and bought a copy of the book after I&#8217;d read a few pages online. A properly bound book is still easier to read than pages of A4 from a laser printer.<br \/>\nThe author works for the London Ambulance Service, practising in Newham and the surrounding east London area. As such, he&#8217;s called on to tend to the needs (or not) of many of life&#8217;s less appealing subjects. This he does with humour &#8211; there probably isn&#8217;t another way of doing it mind you.<br \/>\nThe book is written in short chunks &#8211; well it is a series of blog entries &#8211; with only reader comments missing, although they&#8217;re referred to on a few occassions. You certainly learn about life for Ambulance crew, and learn a few things you&#8217;d perhaps rather not. TV, it seems, is not really all that accurate &#8211; a lot of people end up dying no matter what you do.<br \/>\nMy only real criticism of the book is that read in a day or so, it can be a little samey. Reading the blog over a year spaces similar stories out so that you just begin to realise that the same things happen over and over. But reading about them in a book feels a little repetitious. I&#8217;d have liked to have read more of his general entries that talk about the sorts of things that can happen rather than a strict diary of that particular day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Tom Reynolds give a talk about blogging from work a year or so ago at an NTK event, but I must admit, that I hadn&#8217;t really spent much time reading his blog. Blood, Sweat and Tea is a compendium of entries he&#8217;s made over the last couple of years or so, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}