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Chris McQueen (Huddersfield) - Man of the Match in yesterday's rugby league final. I admit that I like watching sport on the television. This past weekend has been a big one.  On Saturday afternoon, I watched The Rugby League Challenge Cup Final live on the BBC. Wigan Warriors narrowly beat Huddersfield Giants to lift the trophy though in my humble opinion Huddersfield were the better team. They lost because their goal kicker was not on his best form. He missed four kicks. In top level Rugby Union that simply would not have happened. Huddersfield had not won the trophy since the year that I was born - 1953 and of course, coming from Yorkshire I wanted them to win. On Saturday evening, I got to watch The European Champions League Final live from Paris. It was just before the scheduled kick off time that I discovered I could view the game free of charge on YouTube via the BT.com site. I watched every dramatic moment as Real Madrid beat Liverpool by one goal to nil - raising the ...

  The woman was around 80 I suppose She had bright orange hair which had been dyed within an inch of its life  And she had been a psychiatric patient for most of her adult life. Me and my fellow student nurse Paula ( a cheerful scouser with a foul mouth) were student nurses back then and we were on placement with the occupational therapy department  at the West Cheshire hospital where the patient  with orange hair visited daily. We were being taught how to shampoo and set hair that day!  Now, even back then, I wasn’t known for my sartorial elegance, but I was game to learn a new skill and so with the equally clueless Paula we set about shampooing and setting the patient’s hair and rolled layer upon layer with curlers that looked like rigid hairy caterpillars. The OT in charge told us to pin the curlers and to treat the lady with a cup of very sweet tea and some Jaffa cakes. I remember Paula telling me that the hair had to be “wrapped” very tightly aroun...

 It’s a grey morning, and wet. Even though is almost summer, it feels like Autumn. It feels like a back-to-school day. I’m not making my bucket of coffee this morning. I will buy some on the drive through as a treat. I’m working with new bank staff today. We are short staffed again Healthcare feels as though it’s gone tits up following the pandemic  I was talking to Nu about it yesterday  So many nurses have left, retired, resigned, moved on….burnt out and tired. She worked in the big teaching hospitals in London She knows. Dorothy knows I’m going to work and is unhappy . Thank god for Ewan ( Trendy Carol’s hubby) who will be collecting them soon. Dorothy loves him too from Going Gently https://ift.tt/noNGhtp