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Happy birthday Tintin
Tintin, my childhood hero, has turned 90! A long time ago, I decided that if I get kids one day, they would have ALL the Tintin books. And indeed they do! …
I thought healthcare was supposed to be free
A story not literally true like the others on this site. My take on the supposedly huge problem that is car park charges at hospitals. A lady, not so old but far from young, started to have trouble of some sort or other. It had partly to do with her tummy and partly with down below. She didn’t want to go into details and it doesn’t really matter. She did what most people would - …
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Happy Christmas or How do you know the devil is black?
Just one day late: A true little Christmas story. It was a cold December. In a little school in a little town somewhere up north, preparations were made for the yearly nativity play. It was an important tradition. This took place at a time when people still believed that Christmas had something to do with God and Jesus and all that and everyone was suitable excited. …
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Briefly in the Deep South.
For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been on my own in displaying this red tag of hope and remembrance when walking down the streets passed African beauty parlours, Guajarati gold shops and Jamaican food joints. Why is that? Don’t people here know about the great war? Don’t they care? Or is the poppy’s Britain not theirs? Maybe it’s just that they don’t find the Great War particularly… You know… Great? …
The Daily Mail man
I looked after a young and beautiful lady in a recovery room in a big trauma hospital in London. As she came around she did her outmost in trying to expose the Daily Mail man I thought I'd hidden well... The hair was big and curly in chestnut red and her arm was in a plaster cast with only the fingers sticking out. The young woman had been in some sort of trouble and had …
