Because I am aware that over the next year or so I am going to have to move myself from the 14 rooms that I have been occupying in Lawn Road for the last 40 years into something at least a bit smaller – and because I have been helping my good friend Prudence (of the amazing …
Conventional Medicine
Nursing as it used to be – with Jane Dean
Keen followers of Call the Midwife should certainly be checking in to Jane Dean’s new book, To Heal the Sick – Nursing in the NHS in the 1960s. (Available from JaneDeanAuthor or as a Kindle here.) Jane trained with a group of friends, all of whom have kept in touch over the …
Harry Leslie Smith
(Image courtesy of Sarah Lee for the Guardian.) I don't usually regret having handed over all social media activity to Cressida and Kathy but reading the Guardian's obituary this week of Harry Leslie Smith aged 95 I sort of wish that I had remained logged in just to read his …
Thank you, Royal Free
The stunning flower arrangements for the funeral were created by the lovely Tanya Pedder in Belsize Park. We do spend a great deal of time complaining about how poor a service the NHS offers, on the whole, to allergy and intolerance sufferers. And that is all too often true. …
Berrydales Books – what’s in store….
As many of you may know, over the last two years we have been 'going into publishing'. This was inspired by Alex (Gazzola) telling us how he had just self published a short manual on how not-to-write a book (Writing Your Non-Fiction Book: A Mistakes-Writers-Make guide) and how …