On London

I just called 1882-DONATE to find out about registering as a blood donor. After a brief wait I got through to a nurse.

“Were you in the UK between 1987 to 1996?” she asked

“Yes,” I confessed.

“Yeah sorry, then we can’t accept you. Because of mad cow disease” she said.

She told me the policy is going to change sometime but she couldn’t say when.

“I’m tainted!” I laughed.

“Yeah you’re tainted!”