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Last Christmas?
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It was Christmas Eve and the nurses hustled and bustled even faster than usual. All wore tinsel and big smiles. Volunteering for the Christmas Eve shift was always a big deal, especially so in Ward 44 because, for these patients, this would be their last Christmas. The old man reached out from under his hospital […]
Christmas presence?
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A very short Christmas thought inspired by Mandy (‘M’), our happiness secretary. Last year I blogged about challenging my family to a board game over Christmas. My fave is Risk, but that’s deemed too aggressive by my teenage daughter. She prefers Cluedo, which gets a yawn from my teenage son (no ‘proper weapons’ apparently). So […]
Christmas truce
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Hang in there dear reader. It’s Andy W here and I’m attempting to cut between 1914 and 2014. Hold tight, we’re going in… The First World War was called, for reasons unbeknown to me, the ‘Great War’. I’ve seen Blackadder 4 as well as all those poppies in London and it doesn’t look so ‘great’ […]