Mother of invention,Bangor and a good heart

How did I fit things in when working full time, bugger only knows? (Right) see the newly patented "Chicken claw scraper". Chickens being dirty little buggers need cleaning out daily, and having a fat arse does mean that I cannot crawl into the deepest and dirtiest corners of the coop. So after hours of blueprints and action groups , I have come up with a fusion of copper coal shovel, yards of tape and two bamboo poles!.......hey presto!
yes a real natural in the smallest of small holdings!!

Yesterday went to Bangor for a self orientation day!. Went on the train and the trip west of Rhyl was beautiful. Bangor City itself is a bit of a strange affair, all University and no City. The place itself seems crammed over and inbetween two valleys, and according to Wikipedia the population is 14 Thousand ( 8 thou being students)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor,_Gwynedd

Very excited as I found , a huge Marks and Spencers,Theatre Gwynedd ( and the arthouse cinema) AND I found a proper coffee shop!!! oh..... I guess I did find the school of Psychology, main library buildings too! My student "Peer" support is a guy called Stuart, my age, a previous Steel Worker, and pragmatic and down to earth, at least I have not got a spotty youth as support!

Busy today, as the weather is lovely. Purchased all the bark chipping for the garden and laid them down, put in a load of wall flowers and white tulip bulbs and used the magnificent "Chicken claw scraper" so the girls are now squeaky clean. The dogs have had two walks around the countryside in Llanasa, and the young pheasants seem to be flocking in their hundreds around the fields! Bathed the dogs and then settled down to listen to the BBC website and "The News Quiz"

Laughed out loud at Phil Jupitus as he discussed his hypertension problems! .he stated that his blood pressure is 400 lbs per square inch and when the nurse took it, she ran down the hospital corridor screaming "He's going to blow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Actually wrote a couple of letters today too, and was inspired to do so, after getting a letter from an old friend and colleague Alexa Ridge. Her letter was just a reflection of her personality, warm, friendly and funny, and she is one of the people I most liked working with in Sheffield as she has a big heart. I worked with many big hearted people in nursing, Joy Hutton, Andrea Day, Ruth Smith and Andrea Whitworth all have that special something that put them ahead of others in the profession. Genuine warmth and sympathetic care is a surprisingly rare thing to get in nursing, and you would get it in bucket loads with these women.

Chris is back from Norway, so tomorrow we may be off to the cinema to see Clive Owen in Children of Men (also the Spanish Volver is showing so I can feel a double bill comming on)