The Philosophy of Lists

My new career called for a new approach to blogging. I'm still writing, but I've moved to In Between The Shifts - do come over an...

I hadn't expected to find being a qualified nurse so different from being a student nurse.   But as well as qualifying, I also moved hos...

It's all change for the New Year around here: I'm working.   The car only gets used once or twice a week, now that we no longer h...

Two Christmas weeks of whole-family idleness has been blissful. mocha and knitting - this is what much of my Christmas looked like An...

  Although the children and Graham are still ploughing on at work and at school - revising for science exams, writing up computer science...

About a month ago I realised that working as a nurse feels completely normal now, rather than strange and new.  This is A Very Good Thing...

Back in 2010, a parade of elephants came to London to raise awareness of the need for elephant conservation.  The children and Graham and I...

Every nurse loves a lanyard.  We use them to display our security IDs and keep our computer access cards safe.  They ensure we have rolls of...

We do three or four twelve hour shifts a week, and we see EVERYTHING. A nurse covered in white splashes of plaster of paris. A patient be...

Motivational messages for runners in the Olympic Park A friend sent me an email last week, asking if I would write about how I becam...