He recommended helping the weak, the meek, the ones who lay injured by the roadside. He commended a Samaritan who helped someone even though the Samaritan was of a tribe disliked by the Jews. He...
From Nicola Sturgeon today: Some positive news - initial supplies of the Covid vaccine have now arrived safely in Scotland and are being stored securely. The first vaccinations are on track to be...
I want to make a complaint to our local District Nurse management (not about the nurses, but about the management!). Very difficult to get a name from anyone. Any ideas on how I can prise such...
Hello everyone! I hope you can take a look and proofread my Scholarship letter. I would appreciate any type of suggestions. Thank you in advance. "This latter is written by me and my cousin ;-) " (My...
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine is to be less than expected due to supply problems...and NHS staff not at the top of the queue. If true, disappointing to say the least....
I don't know what's going on with me. I suffer occasional very deep lingering bouts of depression that are cruel and beyond anything I could describe. Mere words a?ways seem to miss the point. But...
Finally bit the bullet regarding mum, I have a phone appointment booked with her GP for monday, have emailed them a summary of what we have noticed , and why we think she might have dementia. I feel...
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-choice/2020-the-last-goodbye
Sudan, the last white rhino on Earth, being comforted by one of his carers, just before he died.
Heartbreaking on so many levels....
She calls herself the ‘girl with no face’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6xf She was locked up in a small room ‘for her own protection’ for years. Her father had to kneel on the floor outside...
My mum, wiser than I ever gave her credit for when she lived, used to say of one talkative elderly neighbour, “She’s probably just lonely.” Mum lived alone at the time, my dad having died 15 years...
Grey squirrel in the garden this morning. Think he/she was after the bird food but hey, there's enough to go round. Know they are not native, but just so cute.
Bernardine Evaristo on today’s BBC R4 ‘Point of view’ : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ptc9 I like her writing, mostly I like her views, but not today. She talks about women’s bodies and...
May all sentient beings be filled with lovingkindness and happiness. May they wish to become healing herbs in the days of epidemics to cure the ill. May they wish to become rice plants in the days of...
Try this for size. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/huge-wealth-of-sunaks-family-not-declared-in-ministerial-register Apparently ‘our’ chancellor’s family is SO rich they knock Mrs...
Had yet another emergancy team called out to my dying mum tonight. Struggling to breathe but she let it drop that she was terrified of dying alone...first time ever that she has stated such an...
News for those ABers kind enough to have expressed concern and interest in Mrs A’s illness. After 12 days in the cardio unit she has gone down from 91.6 kg to 77.7, nearly all of it the oedema fluid....
I have just demonstrated how one can take over a PayPal account. Earlier today PayPal insisted (online) they wanted to phone me at home to check on my identity before I would be allowed to make a...