Come Friendly Bombs
and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now …
I found myself thinking about John Betjeman recently, when I was travelling up to London from the suburbs for an early business meeting.
As I joined the row upon row of office-fodder on the train station platform, waiting to go over the top and [...]

Nurses
I have recently been thinking about so-called talent and the ‘need’ to pay them incentives to do their jobs well.
I come from generations of nurses. My granny and her sister were midwives, who in their time delivered most of the town’s babies. Her daughter, my auntie, was a nurse. In my generation, I have [...]

Not A Lot Of It About
The images on my blog posts are random, taken wandering around London. This is from a mural in Shadwell, commemorating the 1936 Cable Street Riot.
There is much to mull over in my reading material over the past few days. I don’t understand how most people’s blogs (well, the ones I [...]