R's rue

Trees in the murk  north of Doncaster Road Well, I was looking forward to Sunday morning because the weather people promised sunshine after a misty start to the day. Purely for exercise. I needed another long walk and of course it would allow me to gather another batch of photographs. Former coal mining villages south of Barnsley were my goal - almost twenty miles from here. I planned to mostly walk in the nearby  countryside. The villages are named Darfield and Wombwell and because of past housing developments they now sit so close to each other that they are conjoined like Siamese twins. Autumn leaf on the shattered glass of a bus shelter at Darfield In the early nineteenth century they were both peaceful, thinly populated settlements focused upon agriculture but then coal took over and their populations advanced rapidly. Railway tracks and sidings surrounded the pitheads and terraced streets were thrown up to accommodate battalions of coal miners and their famili...

 “ Whats up with your eye?”  So asked a patient’s relative moments later after I started to talk to him in the ward office The sclera of my eye had turned an unsightly red giving me the look of a fat friendly zombie, which is not the look you want to have when you are sharing support on a hospice inpatients department. Roger had given me a right swipe last night  I irrigated my eye with chlorampenicol eye drops nicked from the work fridge but when I got home my eye felt sticky and painful  Sailor John was waiting for me when I walked to the cottage. Old Trev had had a fall in his garage  and had just been carried to bed by a young passerby who had heard his calls after lying there for a few hours. I was happy to help sort him out ,  His niece will be accompanying him for a check up in hospital in a few hours time. Ambulance waits in wales are calculated in hours  It’s a scandal  Typical of Trev , after we had assessed his pain ...

 Cool mornings Are here again Change is around May I welcome Its presence  from R's rue https://ift.tt/NMYzumC