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Happy New Year!
The festive holidays were bookended by headlice and a stomach bug. In between I didn’t have much of a break, juggling nursing with another round of edits. Still, we had a lovely time seeing family and friends. I think we … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes
Tagged 2020, break, christmas, festive, fresh air, gardening, grasses, headlice, holidays, indulgence, juggling, moon, new year, nursing, parenting, purple skies, seed catalogues, simple, solstice, stomach bug, sunset, winter, wonder
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Merry Christmas
At the weekend we completed our annual ritual of walk in the woods, sausage sandwiches in a twinkly barn, and Christmas tree purchase from the Dartmoor Park Rangers. Once home, we put on some Christmas tunes, fired up the wood … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged christmas, Christmas rituals, Dartmoor Park Rangers, district nursing, garlands, glitter, log burner, low sun, magic, poinsettia, sausage sandwiches, walk, woods
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Cards
As you can see Finch has been working hard on his Christmas cards. Each one has had extensive illustration work done throughout. It’s taken him a loooong time but finally they are ready to go out to his classmates. In … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Centrepoint, christmas, christmas cards, Christmas greetings, envelope doodles, envelope drawings, environment, good causes, happy christmas, poverty, replacement, youth homelessness
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Treasures
I managed to catch a dry spell last week and headed to the allotment to dig up the last of my root vegetables and plant some more field beans for green manure. A little robin followed me around, pouncing on … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes
Tagged allotment, christmas, commute, dusk, fields, headlights, lit windows, Little Grey Rabbit, potato harvest, radio, rain, robin, shift work, wet autumn, wheat harvest, winter
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Tin Coast
Having grown up in a seaside town I have a pathological aversion to anything touristy so Cornwall has never really appealed. I went on a school trip to St Ives once, and I’ve been through Cornwall lots of times to … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged atlantic ocean, autumn, bal maidens, board games, Bottalack, Cape Cornwall, children, cliff tops, Cornwall, cottage, family, family time, getting away from it all, gorse, holiday, holiday cottage, Hot Chocolate, Levant mine, log burner, miners cottages, mining, parenting, penzance, perspective, Poldark, Porthcurno, reflection, scilly isles, sea, squalls, St Ives, thick walls, time, Tin Coast, tin mining, waves, weather
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Bluebells
It’s official. I have passed! Now it’s over to the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) to issue me with my PIN and I will be back on the register. I start my job as a District Nurse next Tuesday, working … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged bluebells, Dartmoor, district nurse, emsworthy mire, garden centre, gardening, gardening with kids, gardening with toddlers, insects, milk, NMC, nursing, overhanging branchs, oxygenating plants, PIN, pond, Return to Practice, scone, shade, vegetation, wildlife
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Buried
I am buried under a giant pile of research studies, edging my way by degrees towards the conclusion of an essay for my course. If I don’t emerge to write a blog post next week, send help!
Feet!
Oh the joys! Diabetic feet! Here I am, attending a study evening for community nurses about diabetic foot ulcers. It was both gruesome and fascinating. The essential thing I took away is that if I ever develop diabetes I am never, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged Brunel, dawlish, diabetic feet, education, foot ulcers, law and ethics, nurse, nursing, plymouth university, professional development, railway, Return to Practice, train, training
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