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Pants

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Hannah

Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife | Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy | Leave a comment

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Hannah

On Sunday morning I trundled out on my rounds, listening to Sunday Worship on Radio 4. The service came from St David’s in Pembrokeshire. After all the bad news of recent days it was comforting to hear Welsh words spoken, … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Family and friends | Tagged bird feeder, car driving, carols, christmas, clinical incident form, community nurse, COVID-19, darkest day, district nursing, Exeter cathedral, garden birds, happy new year, merry christmas, National Trust, pembrokeshire, Pob bendith, pressure sore, pressure ulcer, Radio 4, seed orders, spring bulbs, St DAvids, stove, Sunday, Sunday Worship, support stockings, thank you, turning of the year, Wales, weekend working, wing mirror, winter sun | 2 Comments

Storm Alex

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Hannah

This morning I’ve been watching the footage of the storm damage in France. An orange-roofed chalet clings impossibly to the side of a sheer mountain, a grey slash showing the path of a landslip, a slither of tarmac on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside | Tagged all-weather, apples, autumn, children, countryside, cows, devon, district nursing, family, fields, flooding, France, gales, home, Hot Chocolate, landslide, mud, october, parenting, storm alex, walks, woodburner | 2 Comments

I-spy

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Hannah

Only this time last week I was sweating in PPE from places I didn’t even know I could sweat from. I came home from work last Wednesday evening, lay on our ceramic tiled kitchen floor, trying to soak up some … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged august, August weather, Barnstaple, British Summer, camping, Covid, district nursing, floods, friend, heatwave, ice cream, North Devon, nursing, PPE, rain, sea, tent, tiger, weather, wetsuits, Woolacombe, zoo | Comments Off

Mini adventures

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Hannah

The car I drive for work is a Mini I inherited from my father-in-law. Whether I’m negotiating tight passing places in narrow country lanes or squeezing into impossible parking spots in town, it’s ideal. It has a small boot crammed … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside | Tagged bandages, car, countryside, COVID-19, devon, district nursing, hair dye, hairdressers, handbrake, lanes, lockdown, Mini, nursing, PPE, team, tractors, urinary catheters | Comments Off

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Hannah

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 | Leave a comment

Spoons

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Hannah

The temperature has dropped. There are reports of snow up on the moors. I have a little scrap of thin plastic attached to my NHS issue raincoat which is supposedly a hood. It doesn’t do much to protect me from … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged bare trees, children, cold, daughters, dessertspoon, district nursing, little spoon, moors, mum, NHS issue, parenting, raincoat, small spoon, snow, spoons, teaspoon, temperatures drop, three year old, yellow leaves, yoghurt | Comments Off

Still moments

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Hannah

On Monday, I narrowly missed being drowned by the pouring rain as I dashed between visits. On Tuesday, I didn’t go to one home when someone didn’t comment on how cold it had got. But on Wednesday all was calm … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged boats, coffee, cold, community nursing, district nursing, estuary, flask, monday, patient visits, rain, rounds, taking a moment, tuesday, view | Comments Off

Sunbathing

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Hannah

What a June it is turning out to be! We went to a local pub for lunch with some friends for Father’s Day. Inevitably the children could only sit at the table for limited length of time so we headed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged allotment, beer garden, birds, children, community nursing, district nursing, father's day, frog, gardening, golden mornings, grasses, june, manure pile, nature, parenting, pub, pub lunch, rain, river, rounds, slow worm, slow worms, sunbathing, sunshine, visits, water meadow, wildlife | 5 Comments

Early days

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Hannah

Here is a carpet moth I found cleverly camouflaged in the alley beside our house. Not to be confused with Tineola moths, whose larvae eat clothes and carpets. Epirrhoe alternata is called the Common Carpet moth because it looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carpet moth, community nursing, day-flying moths, district nursing, door code, e-learning, e-roster, early days, Epirrhoe alternata, new job, nursing, smart card, Tineola, UK | 2 Comments

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