So, while I delight in exploring my voice, and the interesting tones and noises one can make with it (I can be quite like a child, really, but frankly it’s fun) – I don’t delight in my computers making any untoward noises. I can’t say that it was an ‘atrocious’ noise that the EntMac made…

So Nikki and her evil little helper book Electric Dreams have poked my brain in a fundamentally very annoying way. When I was a kid I pointed out to my dad the clearly verifiable ridiculousness of cars. Cars are frankly, dumb. I love them, at least classics; I love their looks, I love their convenience…

So, yesterday we went into London. The plan was simple – we would head in, locate Oxfam Originals near Oxford Circus (or indeed Circuuussss), find clothes for myself and Kathryn, find an ethical shoe store for me, and find bras for us all! (Bras for EVERYONE!). Yeah, it didn’t quite work out like that. We…

Well, one of the other things which is sometimes quite cool working in the emergency department is that the whole and entire world walks in the doors (sometimes simultaneously, it seems). I’ve met some really interesting and awesome people. One of the people I met recently left me muttering ‘Stupid xenephobic little country’ (other people…

So, one of the things I worry most about is treating kids. Not so much the just-pre-teens, but the 0-to-6 ish group. The group who the best I can do in explaining is fundamentally that I need to make something ‘better’. The cut head, the sore tummy, it all comes down to ‘making it better’.…

So, progress has been made, sort of. I finally got around to calculating the hours I’ve done each year since I qualified; and popped them on the form for the CRNBC. I also remembered to ring the university and ask them for my ‘transcript’ which is a bargain at ’75 pounds’. Geeze! The CRNBC form…

So, I’m doing the Commando Challenge – for those who’ve forgotten (if you want to sponsor me, please say, ‘cos the more sponsorship the more I’ll feel better about my attempted self amelioration) and am ‘working up to’ running the 7 miles. Only I need to do more than 7 miles – because Slough is…

So, with a little break in the middle we’ve spent a week touring physically, and a week having our minds enlarged ;) So, let’s begin at the beginning. Late in the evening a heavily laden DAF (one with a cornucopia of spares, tools and indeed our luggage) clattered out from a quiet suburban street in…

So, the past few months have been fairly disasterous on the car front. It was, therefore with some trepidation that I began to contemplate the possibility that we should obtain a different car. I eventually admitted to myself, after much contemplation that in reality, Kathryn would probably be more comfortable driving something at least faintly…

Normally I can work out why a car isn’t running right. I may not be able to fix it, but I can suss out where the problems lie. But not this time. She has a spark, she has fuel and she has air. She clearly has some compression, and yet she will not run. One…