Sometime ago a group of we teachers known as ASTs – teachers with accredited advanced status as in,should be able to do outreach work and behave, gathered for a CPD event. We were all tired. Bored. We just wanted to go home. It’s a long story but suffice to say the poor incumbent man on the stage wrote the word jugs on his groovy new bit of techie kit. JUGS in big projected letters appeared behind him. I’m embarrassed ( not) to say such was our exhaustion we all burst out laughing. Some had to leave the room to calm down. Others had tears pouring down our faces. One had the presence of mind to grab the tea trolley and totter into the lecture hall

Announcing tea – much like Acorn Antiques. Indeed Two Soups comes to mind.

Not professional. Not development. Not Advance Specialist Teachers at all! CPD for AST

The reason jugs have sprung to mind is I wanted to remind hospitals to give patients fresh chilled water at all times. Within reach.

It’s been a bit of a week. My knee has been fixed. PHEWEE.

I’m out of my spinal brace. PHEWEE.

I swam in the lake. Wonderful.

House of Commons on Wednesday. Pete Reed spoke to the dignatories too.

You can hear a but … but poor Daughter 1. She had an awful collapse on Sunday. First responders. Ambulance. Hospital Doctors. all arrived with 15 minutes. 6 of them doing everything possible. Wow they are totally brilliant professionals . She’s a lot better. in hospital but safe. Her boys have been incredible. Whilst all the drama was going on I was distracting them by singing songs very loudly to cover up the sounds from above. One two three four five once I caught a dog alive …. I’m hoping their infectious laughter filtered through to their amazing mother.

Spoke to each of my children yesterday.

D1 – in Hosp.
D2 – hopefully ankle op Thursday London hosp .
BFG – hope baby doesn’t arrive yet London hosp
Son1 – he said he was feeling a bit dizzy. I told him in no circumstances was he to go into hospital. All 4 in one week is not acceptable!!!😂

I’ve been encouraged to join a long planned trip. I’m going to go to Barcelona. I can come back anytime. Lots of flights. I was explaining to my friends who have persuaded me to go what the research was about. It was a comparative study on the possibility of performing a specific operation against another. My role was to make it sound more understandable. You will notice that one of the infographics we made shows the request by patients to describe degrees of prolapse as satsuma /apple /melon then they wanted avocado put in too. So we did! The CPOP acronym was one of my ideas because I cannot say or spell the operations. One is colpocleisis the other is sacrospinous fixation. The ethics committee couldn’t understand why a randomised trial could not be blinded. I did explain that patients would actually know if they’d been stitched up externally or internally. 🤦‍♀️How the hell did I get onto this ?!

Finally and not surprisingly Dipstick’s team have not succeeded to booking the MRI due two years ago. Some emails inadvertently came my way telling me I had a spinal implant and they needed to make ‘special arrangements ‘ no rush then!