When I Was A Nurse My Favourite

I Like Reading, I Like Boring Things, And Yet I Think People For Ages Had This Image Of Me That I Was On The Tube With A Chainsaw Looking For Any Likely Candidate.

Most Of Us Manage The Fateful Things That Happen In Our Lives The Best We Can, Certainly Not To A Stalin-like 20-year Plan.

Christians Have Always Been Fodder For Comedians Who Have Tended To Portray Them As Anoraks - Slightly Clammy, Beatifically Smiley Dullards With Barely A Personality Between Them.

Managers Of Hospitals, Over The Years Have Been Increasingly Recruited From Outside The Health Service And Although Their Experience Of Running A Supermarket Chain Might Allow Them To Balance The Books, It Does Not Mean They Have Any Insight Into How A Ward Should Be Managed And Patients Best Served.

My Mum Is Bright, Ambitious, Well Read, Political And Very Bolshie: When My Dad Was Conscripted Into The Army And Posted To Libya, She Convinced Some General To Let Her Go With Him. I Don't Know How She Managed It.