R's rue

  I discovered this old school magazine  when sorting through the detritus of death. It was published in the autumn term of 1971. The school was Beverley Grammar School in the heart of East Yorkshire. It is where I pursued my A level studies in the sixth form. The school was founded long ago and is believed to be the oldest grammar school in England. I joined the school in September 1970 and left in June 1972. They were happy days. At the end of my first year I designed the school magazine's new front cover shown above. Within the pages of that particular "Beverlonian"  there was a prize winning essay I had written titled "Trees" about the future of the natural environment and also this rather enigmatic short poem:- I was just seventeen - well you know what I mean... In the past few days there has been talk in the British media about the ownership of Manchester United  football club possibly being transferred to Britain's richest man - Jim Ratcliffe...

 My relationship as a patient with the nhs has been, thankfully, a short one.  In sixty years I have only used the hospital system a few times for more minor conditions and with the exception of some temperamental behaviour from one GP and an incredibly snide call handler my experiences have in the main been exemplary.  The GP, I saw face to face , so I could handle his pomposity with some assertive “ Do you talk to all your patients this way?” Working in a large Yorkshire Teaching hospital where nurses stood no shit from anyone, grounds you when you come across senior doctors who think they are mini Gods.  Back in the 1980s nurses were more, hummmmm ….. gobby? The call handler, I have subsequently pieced together was either fired or left his job. His supervisor blandly tried to smooth over the cracks of his behaviour by saying he doesn’t work for the department anymore. I had rang his department to book an urology appointment which had been cancelled by the h...

 Recovery is sometimes very strange Takes more time than you want The test I must take Every day from R's rue https://ift.tt/5nWX4IV