" Pay particular attention to the details of your work.
Paying attention to detail makes for the personal touch...it is thoughtful and it is kind"
This was a particular manra of my tutor Mr Brint , back in my psychiatric days
I remember it well as in one lession we had, the class was taught how to put ladies hair rollers in!
The ladies were a group of "patient volunteers" from the long stay ward and Mr Brint and a tired looking Occupational therapist were showing us all how to shampoo and set!
" Hair and make up are vital for good self esteem" Mr Brint trilled " Everyone can be made to feel beautiful "
He looked over at me as I manfully tried to roll my patient's grey locks around a roller which resembled a hairy caterpillar
" And how is your lady looking Nurse Gray?" he purred
I looked at my lady's head thick with haphazard looking rollers
" She looks like a German mine!" I told him honestly
His heart was always in the right place
Speaking of tutors, my out standing essay was finally second marked yesterday
I’m averaging a B for last year’s academic work which is bloody good going, given that I’m a definite bit of a plodder.
Hey ho
Ha-ha! A German mine! Don't you mean a coal mine? Well, the pithead anyway!
ReplyDeleteIt was the spikes
DeleteBrilliant, say what you see. 😄
ReplyDeleteMake up and hair care isn’t a high priority in my home
DeleteThanks for the image and the giggle. I remember those spiky rollers. I used to try sleeping in them, expecting lovely curls when I woke up. Trouble was, a) I couldn't sleep, they were too uncomfortable and b) any curls I managed to create dropped out after about half an hour. I soon gave up and accepted my hair as it is! xx
ReplyDeleteWell done on the B grade. B for bloody great! xx
DeleteBloody lovely
DeleteOh I remember those days of the shampoo and set .. back when I had a schoolgirl Saturday job in the local hairdressers.
ReplyDeleteSmelling of strange lotions and gossip
DeleteI can assure you that trying to sleep in those rollers is like lying with your head in a nest of hedgehogs. And the ensuing 'curls' were a mixture of signals pointing every which way - that's if you had any hair left after trying to untangle it from those spiky hedgehogs. Absolute torture!
ReplyDeleteVanity - thy name is woman!" quote Shakespeare.
DeleteI would lay my head with my ear on top of my folded fist to keep the weight off my curlers. I had naturally curly hair to start with, but it wasn't the right KIND of curls!
It’s all Dutch to me lol
DeleteI remember those days of trying to sleep with those spiky rollers in my hair. So painful!! Now I keep my hair short and cut it myself so no more rollers needed!
ReplyDeleteAs I recall I could not use pins , as the patient tried to swallow them
DeletePins? As in stab the pin in the head to keep the roller fixed? I've never heard of pins being used.
DeletePink plastic pins
DeleteYou should have paid more attention to your tutor, you're not always kind..
ReplyDeleteAnd your statement is kind because ..........?
DeleteNo but I try to be , something u obviously don’t do
DeleteThe comment wasn't to you veg artist. Mind your own business. You have no idea of what context Anon was referring to.
DeleteMore proof.
DeleteLove the story and your apt analogy! I, too, and glad to be rid of those hair rollers.
ReplyDeleteYour B average is most excellent as you bravely went back to school not so long ago. Shoulders back!
Hugs!
Tits out!!,
DeleteYou paint such vivid pictures with words. Thanks for the chuckle.
ReplyDeleteWell done on your B average... you've got this!
I know I was right chuffed
DeleteMr Brint was wise indeed...what a lovely mantra to live by. x
ReplyDeleteHe was before his time , a conscientious objector during the war too
DeleteWeren't conscientious objectors shot?
DeleteNot before the war, they were subscriped into psychiatric hospitals as staff
DeleteNo you're wrong. Conscientious objectors were put in prison.
DeleteNo , I’m right as you are ( in part) some were imprisoned but most were conscripted into the medical corps or in psychiatric hospital staff
DeleteOnly a B HOW disappointed you must be?
ReplyDeletelol , you obviously don’t know me.
DeleteI was cock a hoop at my B average. I am not used to academic rigour , and I have always been a plodder academically .
I’m pleased as punch
Good work, a very respectable eval/ grade. Are you pleased, that's what counts.
ReplyDeleteI remember the hair rollers lesson, you have mentioned it before. I bet that is no longer taught or expected! Here a patient is lucky to be tossed a baby wipe once a week.
Oh just saw your answer, above. Again, great work!
DeleteCheers lizzy
DeleteCongratulations on your grades, if not your perm. :)
ReplyDeleteThank goodness I never had one in the 70s
DeleteAnother wonderful picture painted with your words, and memories of the tiny details, John! I well remember those silly curlers, and back in the day had plenty of them tangled in my own hair! I think they came with pink sticks to set them in place. Bravo on the B!
ReplyDeleteWe had to cope sans pins, the risk assessment
DeleteCongratulations on the B! I would have been thrilled with that. Academia was never my thing, but I sure could dance. :)
ReplyDeleteI dance like a shire horse
DeleteA B average is something to be proud of and that's all there is to it.
ReplyDeleteI know I’m tickled pink
DeleteI was always thrilled with a pass. I would be very pleased with a B. I never liked school, but kept going because my parents insisted. I learned more from travel and reading than from school.. I had wash and wear hair, some days it looked better than others. I never gave a rats ass what other people thought. You are very smart and brave to take on a new career and you will be so good at it.. gigi
ReplyDeleteWhen my mom’s hands got too arthritic to put her hair rollers in by herself, my dad learned to do it for her! That showed true love, in my opinion! Congratulations on your B grade, that’s excellent! -R in NY
ReplyDeletePs- my husband started studying to become a nurse at age 57- and he’s still working as a visiting nurse, at aged 71!
DeleteCongratulations on the B average, well done!-Mary
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! It must be a bit of a relief to see these obstacles between now and your future toppling one by one. Well done you!
ReplyDeleteYou are going to be a brilliant therapist.
ReplyDeleteI am still grinning. I liked this post a lot!
ReplyDeleteMaintaining a B average while still working and managing your household is impressive. Well done.
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