Luckily Chris came home at three, picked the dogs up, made my tea (risotto in Bed! bliss), locked the birds up and brought me a cuppa in bed!. Last night tonight
"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
Last Night
Luckily Chris came home at three, picked the dogs up, made my tea (risotto in Bed! bliss), locked the birds up and brought me a cuppa in bed!. Last night tonight
Good Luck to Mike
Richard, the father in law comes on Thursday until next Tuesday, so at least I have some time away from work to look after him. Having said that I aim to get him working on the parsnips and new veg patch, so there will be little r and r! Bless!
Friend Mike starts work tomorrow after a long break! good luck matey! Forgot to say on the phone tonight that we need to organise a meet before Christmas!
10 days to New York!
Needy Meg.A good death? Janeaway,Piccard or Sisko?
Of all the characters that are our pets, Meg always seems to me to be the "saddest". I know this anthropomorphic view of animal personality traits is rather misleading at best, but in her case, it does feel rather a truism. She is a a nervy little dog, who is most content sitting on my knee, being silent and cuddled. Whist the others are lying in untidy heaps on the kitchen floor, she has sneaked onto the couch with me, and is still and comfortable.
Today, I have been at work all day, and will be at the hospital all day tomorrow as well as Monday and Tuesday night shifts. I have missed being outdoors, but have had some consolation with working with a delightfully close family of a patient who sadly died today. As readers of this blog may have picked up already, I am not a fan of intensive care work. I prefer the slightly gung-ho nature, general rehabilitation has to offer. Mind you, ITU does have it's own positives to nurse and patients, and to me the most important is it often allows the patient to receive a death with as much dignity, an overburdened health system has to offer. This was the case today! I had the time, support and the opportunity to ensure that the family received good end of life care for a much loved husband and father. Hard work yes........but worth it.On a lighter note! Yesterday I was thinking about STAR TREK! Now I am no treker by any means ( I may be slightly nerdy occasionally!); I will watch a film if it on the television, and have been amused with the story on the BBC of the new proposed Star Trek film starring Simon Pegg as a young Scottie!, but I don't know the Kingon for Traitor! and have no idea the difference between a foton Torpedo and a fazer burst!. Voyager ( the forth of the series), is being shown on Sky and I must admit I have actually ENJOYED it second time around!
Janaway (School marm with a hint of smoulder) is a great heroine, with Busty seven of nine and semi lesbian B'Elanna Torres heading a strong female cast! The men led by Red Indian Commander Chakotay and pretty boy "Tom" Paris are more supporting brotherly characters, and the "family" cast even has a funny set of Uncles in the shape of alien Neelix and the hologram doctor!
Yep we have see all these characters before, as all the crew are just reincarnations of each other from the very first Trek films and series! but in Voyager there is an odd sense of those cardboard characterisations I have always loved from those 1970 disaster films. A motley group of souls, facing the unknown and disaster! This time instead of pretty people in dinner jackets and party frocks, we have humans and humanish aliens with figure hugging uniforms, 1990 haircuts , all backed by a stirring score by Jerry Goldsmith! all great fun!..............ENGAGE!
ps. Chris is smoking again! hey ho
Barter,Blanche,Beatrice and Rose
As I was leaving he asked me if I would like to take his last three hybrids for nothing which was a nice gesture, especially as I had already helped myself to a nice old wooden coal scuttle he wanted to get rid of as well.
The new girls are a little moth eaten at the moment, but will blossom into good looking birds. As a tribute to Tenko, I have named them Blanche (Cockney Louise Jameson), Beatrice (Stephanie Cole the Doctor) and Rose ( Stephanie Beecham).
Flushed with "getting a good deal" I took an old wooden chest and some other oddments down to a local craft shop this afternoon and swapped the smaller oddments for some lovely cushions made from old Welsh blankets. The owner will sell the chest for me, which will pay for a few Christmas gifts!
Emma Thompson and the Helen Bamber foundation........being careful
The Body shop is leading the foundation's goal of ratifying the European Convention Against Trafficking which could give these women protection. Add your name, to their petition, and be sure and buy a postcard from The Body Shop, the proceeds of which will go directly to the foundations ! Even though the subject was shocking and rather sad, Thompson made the whole thing vital and important. A very charismatic lady.
New York is looming, (as is Christmas) so I have been watching my expenditure like a hawk! It is so easy to fritter it all away on, bollocks! so in a sort of a social experiment I am watching the pennies very carefully
Personal Expenditure so far this week:
I bag of Chicken wheat.............£6.99
Dog Collar...............................£4.95
Chicken tick powder................£6.99
Pigs Ears..................................£4.00
Sub total.................................£22.93
Egg sales (projected)...............£16.00+
Sub total.................................£6.93-
Cinema Ticket.........................£3.50
Petrol.....................................£21.50
2 bowls from junk shop...........£0.50
Antique Magazine...................£3.30
diet coke.................................£5.09
chardonney............................£4.95
Total £45.77
Not Bad eh?
Claire Wenger 's comments on Glan Clwyd Hospital didn't surprise me! This makes an uncomfortable but necessary read! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7057733.stm
Tell no One, simple pleasures and Glen Close R.I.P?
Bariatric problems
In the same vein, health and safety's gone mad!a Denbighshire company has designed an obese dummy (28 stone) for the emergency services to practice on! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/7046128.stm
In my experience 28 stone is not heavy enough! as we have had to move and handle several over 35 stone patients recently. Love the dummy, he looks totally fu^Ked!
Worked last night, and busy yet again! have coasted through today a bit! normality tomorrow! V excited as booked to meet up with Nu just before Christmas! we are off to see Mathew Bourne's Nutcracker! and the Henry Moore sculptures at Kew Gardens..............lovely!!