Day 277
I’m going to keep this brief today. I got back my histology results on the polyps they took out last week – all benign. A huge relief, I have to… Continue Reading
Browsing Tag: NHS
Day 271
T, a friend of mine who used to be Bumfrey’s producer on BBC Radio Norfolk, posted a lovely picture of a moss-covered tree on her Instagram feed yesterday, and called… Continue Reading
Day 262
THE COUNTRY FALLS The country falls Silent. Christmas Day On a Monday In September. The nation mourns The hundreds of thousands Dead from covid, The excess deaths caused By underfunding… Continue Reading
Day 258
Another fragmentary. This year’s blog now has over 266k words. Quite remarkable. I really didn’t think it would accumulate words so quickly and massively. Just goes to show how many… Continue Reading
Day 251
The National Health Service is magnificent. I got up early to go for my CT scan. M gave me a lift down to the hospital, and held my hand when… Continue Reading
Day 208
After two nights of not sleeping very well at all, partly caused by my despair at seeing summer pass so quickly, I slept almost too well last night. Probably because… Continue Reading
Day 39
Yesterday turned into a self-care day. Necessity is the mother of self-care days. I had been plagued all Sunday night by bad toothache. I woke with it. Too early to… Continue Reading
Day Five
The question of heroism in the context of Antarctic exploration was the theme for a webinar I have just watched, in particular that of the men (and they were only… Continue Reading
These Dead
All the clapping hypocrisy to one side, carers and NHS staff are underpaid and undervalued, and dying. This is for them, about them. These Dead These dead live in pebble-dashed… Continue Reading
Campaign Trail – Days 18 to 20
Random recollections of what’s been going on. If days could be extended to cover 36 hours it might be helpful. Wednesday was fragmented. I had a lot of work to… Continue Reading