Tits Up

I never got to see Little Women at lunchtime
I found a rather nasty self scratched wound on Winnie's neck folds this morning which needed assessing so found myself sitting in the vet's waiting room instead of the warmth of the Prestatyn's Scala Cinema orange plush seats.
Winnie always makes a vet visit a bit of a joy even if she is not quite 100% when there.
She loves to sit by the door as we wait to be called, a position she likes as she is able to greet any dog or human as they wander in.
She reminds me of a rotund 1930s matron greeting her guests at a fashionable cocktail party.
The new Eastern European vet snorted when I all told her that I need not hold winnie's head for her to give the standard painkilling injections and antibiotics
and true to form Winnie started to blow kisses at the vet as the first injection plunged in
The wound looked nasty
and so did the 100£ bill
These dogs will be the death of me.

The weather is atrocious and with Storm Brendan in full flow I bought Winnie a Ginster's Pasty
then went on spec to the multiplex cinema in Llandudno.
There I saw the excellent and typically Guy Ritchie-esque The Gentlemen as Winnie slept after enjoying the aforementioned pasty and several handfuls of miniature cocktail sausages!

Hugh Grant his best performance to date

 

I wont go into any of the plot of the movie as it is simply just too complicated to make a stab at, suffice to say it has Mathew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam , Michelle Dockery and Colin Farrell all playing London based gangsters who are involved around the battle for topdog status in the production and supply of high grade marijuana

Who would have imagined that Lady Mary was such a good shot

In typical Ritchie style the film is very darkly funny with the whole cast looking like they had the time of their lives during its production, and uniformly they give some very impressive performances indeed, performances that are just overshadowed in a scene stealing turn by Hugh Grant who turns up as a sleazy gay, camp Michael Caine sounding private eye
I loved watching him in this movie, which is a true compliment as I don't rate him much as an actor.
I bet he wins a BAFTA for best supporting actor!

I'm home now and have just dressed Winnie's wound carefully as she sat on the kitchen table happily munching a slice of pizza
I love that old dog
She has more Chutzpah than Miriam Margolyes

Two Days Off

Nurses are notorious for not recharging their batteries.

I am presently trying to bring in a slightly more structured way of debriefing and discussing situations that challenge them in clinical every day work

It's bread and butter within Samaritain work

But still not quite normal practice in nursing.

Younger nurses still, I think, work hard and play hard. 

Lots of late nights, alcohol and buckets of fun

It has always been so

Today I find it's getting the most out of days off.

And days off mean , wherever possible two days off together!

This week I have three days off together.

Yesterday was a bust after night shifts. It was a day of scrubbing the kitchen floor free of bulldog separation urine, dog walks, shopping and cottage cleaning

The next couple of days are earmarked for some downtime

Today it's Little Women, A lunch date, dog walks and a hospital visit

Tomorrow it's Pottery Class, choir and badminton with Gorgeous Dave

Many of us are not very good at giving ourselves permission to relax.

We use words as should and Need too many times 

The next couple of days, all I am allowing myself to say 

" I'd like to..."

Matt Alber

The penis post was a cheap shot
I admit it.
Penises will always grab the attention, and I was tired
Anyway posts can get forgiven for they are seldom long to read
Videos posts are lazy posts too
but this one is at least pretty to look at.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o8uocNOr7aY

Penis

The other day I caught two middle aged ladies photographing a particularly fine palm tree outside work.
Were they Horticulturalists ?
Naturalists perhaps ?
Nope
They were photographing a new limb, growing  in the shape of an erect man's penis

Seaside smutty humour is not dead

Lovely Lisa Tarbuck

Thank fuck for lisa Tarbuck
The BBC radio 2 presenter
Had me laughing out loud tonight
As I was battling the weather to get to work
She was chatting about the Alexa wifi accessory and in a fit of the giggles
Yelled out onto the airways
"ALEXA!!!!!!! RING THE POLICE!!!!!"

Supermarket Tea

I'm feeling a bit of a sad sack today

I'm on nights and I'm sat in supermarket cafe having my tea before I drive down the coast to work

There are four people in the cafe and they all look as sad i do

Night duty can leave the days expanse of time in between shifts like dead time

It's like experiencing that awful Sunday night before school feeling three days in a row.

What you really want is to get up in the dark with a bath already run for you and with tea on the table. 

Your uniform is pressed ready and your supper is boxed ready to microwave at midnight...(a time nurses get peckish after their very first sit down of the night)

When you leave the house a kiss sends you on your way

My uniform IS ironed ( and hidden under a jacket - to protect it from stray gravy) and my coffee was self service. 

I doubt the check out woman will give me a kiss goodbye

I'm glad she won't, she reeks of fags.

I look at the clock, I've got 25 minutes to finish my coffee and to buy dog food and some treats for my colleagues 

It was a challenging shift last night

And I     suspect tonight's will be the same.

Hey ho xx

A Winter Funeral

It was blustery throughout Gwyneth's funeral.
So much so that at one point in the service, several of the congregation lifted their heads to listen to the wind as it whistled menacingly around the Church roof.
There is something more emotional about a funeral in winter I always think.
Every colour is muted like the dull green/browns of the graveyard foliage .
The grey of the skies echoing the mood of the moment.

Village Elder Islwyn and Trendy Carol ( lovely handbag btw) were stoic and movingly brave and it was good to hear that their work and friendships were celebrated so publicly by the vicar before the burial in the Churchard where the valiant semicircle of family and villagers braved the icy wind as it raced like a train over the valley floor from the West

The Day I Killed Bogbrush

A patient asked me to tell her a story today.
She needed diverting and I had just a few minutes to spare
I didn't quite know just what to talk about until I spied an nylon exfoliating face scrub sticking out of her bathroom bag sitting on her locker.
When I saw the white Pom Pom I remembered Bog Brush 

Now Bog Brush was a nasty little cunt
A silkie cockerel no more than nine inches high, he was the epitome of little man syndrome 
Full of bluster, anger and sexual tension bordering on the psychotic , Bog Brush spent his days either pecking at any passing female hen within range or shagging any passing female hen within range.
When he had a spare moment , free of the motivation of depositing sperm , he would spend it attacking anything that he saw as a threat.
The dogs, the pigs, even the hysterical Indian runner ducks would be targeted by the little white crested cockerel, who without fear and with much howling would hurl himself claws first at any poor unfortunate within reach.

Visiting humans would also be subject to sneak attacks and could be often seen limping away from the field with bloody calves and ripped tights.

The population of the field was effectively under seige until the day that Bog Brush picked on a baby bantam cockerel called Gayboy 
Gayboy, was a sweetie. He was tiny runt of a bantam who had a bad leg after it was trampled by his socially inept mother. The injury left him slow and when he walked he flounced somewhat like a more camp version of john Inman's Mr Humphreys 
Gayboy was bully fodder for the likes of BogBrush and that day it was fortunate that I was passing with a tin feeding bowl in my hand for Bogbrush had almost killed the little guy ( as he skipped by presumably whistling show tunes to himself ). I yelled " You little cunt" at the top of my voice  and swung my bowl like a good un
The tin bowl had clacked Bogbrush , just a glancing blow
I only intended to scare the bastard
But the cockerel stopped short, gave me a brief but vicious look , then dropped stone dead to the floor.
" You killed Bogbrush" my patient stated
" I did " I told her "I am ashamed to admit it!" 
" but Gayboy survived!???!!!"
" he did indeed !!" I told her......
Thus Ending the story