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At Cranfleet Lock Okay... this is a continuation of yesterday's blogpost. I couldn't title that one "Long Eaton" because of my one word rule so yesterday's post was "Long" and this one is titled "Eaton". Nothing to do with the posh school for posh boys near Windsor (Eton) and nothing to do with "eating" either. After four or five miles I decided to halt for refreshment. I had reached Cranfleet Lock on the short Cranfleet Canal and there ahead of me, above the lock was an unoccupied picnic bench calling my name. What a pleasant place for a rest. I took off my rucksack and pulled out my water flask along with the sandwich I had prepared before leaving home - containing slices of spicy German sausage and cucumber. It was a peaceful spot and a silver-haired couple were in the process of maneuvering their wine-coloured narrowboat back into The River Trent. The short  Cranfleet Canal was built in the mid-nineteenth century to bypass a ...

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 I often take a neighbour to the hospital for a blood test on a Monday lunchtime. It doesn’t usually take long. I double park and listen to the radio outside haematology and today the air ambulance took off from its hidden helicopter pad behind in service training. In Sheffield’s Lodge Moor Hospital  , everyone loved the sea king admissions , which, although rare, were popular with staff and local residents alike. Now the old Lodge Moor Hospital was perched on the Western most tip of the city at an altitude just shy of a thousand feet above sea level. Originally a fever hospital, the “ South” wards were dominated by the Spinal Injury Unit where I cut my teeth as a junior staff nurse, and it was there, that the sea King’s used to bring their patients. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodge_Moor_Hospital Our best nursing prank ever  concerned the arrival of the sea king and a particularly dim student nurse I shall call Judith.  Now Judith was a game student....