Student typing on a laptop wearing a work fleece six sizes too big

I’m sure she thinks I don’t notice… the signal of stress when she wraps herself in something of mine. A security blanket. Silent sign language
#DeadlineMode #DissertationDate

Local paper article detailing latest fish prices

Front page Headline: Revealed - plans for zoo transformation

Story: “Can you give Alan a home?” Alan is a rescued pony

Adore local papers on holiday …

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It’s been eerily silent this week… all our previous Education contacts have automatic replies with no end date. Was booked in February to present at an ICB meeting this evening: no teams link, no booking, no response to emails. Submitted a PO this morning for our showpiece training event in July…

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Reflecting this #MotheringSunday that since official origin of our Orthopaedic Unit in 1947, I remain the only female substantive appointment in its history …

That’s it. That’s the post. Now to enjoy a glorious lunch with the Child and gratefully cherish all that is good in our lives 💐

BBC Lunchtime News bulletin inventing a new country “Cyrpus”

#BBC somewhat discombobulated by reporting fast-moving Actual News … #YouSayCyrpus #ISayCyprus

Certainly was…

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FKING H*LL
All I want @england.nhs.uk, ALL I WANT IS BASIC IT
DO NOT SHUT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUGE (unsaved) PIECE OF WORK #ffs

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Day 12 and we finally have an answer to the question ‘can there be too much curling on telly’ #WinterOlympics

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

So what’s the secret here? Kevlar pants? Steel-plated quad guards? Why is he not screaming in lacerated agony? #WinterOlympics #BladesofSteel

Torvill and Dean Gold Medal ice dance Bolero 1984

“Torvill-and-Dean-1984-Sarajevo” is the #TeamGB ice dance equivalent of 1966…
#WinterOlympics

Just straight up boycott Ray Bans and all who wear them

Curling Team GB down 3:8 to Sweden 7th end

Watching curling from behind a cushion
Yes, CURLING #anxiety
#WinterOlympics

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Listening to the Beethoven piano concerto on R3 reminds me again how brilliant Dudley Moore's Colonel Bogey was.

Court upholds return of Oxford surgeon who harassed colleagues James Gilbert, who was based in Oxford, was previously suspended for sexual harassment.

Reacting to the Court of Appeal judgment in the James Gilbert case, our VP, Prof Vivien Lees said: “Staff targeted by James Gilbert’s behaviour will feel disappointed by today’s Court of Appeal judgment.”

More from the BBC: https://ow.ly/MM1q50Y9WsN

Opening Ceremony Milan Winter Olympics

BBC playing the sound so low … or I’m going deaf… yikes no Hazel Irvine at massive volume #WinterOlympics #OpeningCeremony

Doing well.
2 out of 2 justifications for some of my established rituals which drive the Child mad:
1) build in at least one extra train ahead of the appointment time and
2) brown people *always* need the protection of a receipt at self-checkouts

Have they washed it in coffee?? 🫣

Doctors’ strike helped forestall NHS winter crisis, say health leaders Senior medics who covered for younger colleagues said to be more confident and quicker to discharge patients

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Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

Don't say 'I told you so' Stuart, it's unedifying.

'Superflu' looking very much like normal flu.

Worst flu season since... last year.

The word Perilous

Hmm… 👀

Citation from New Years Honours List for Scarlett McNally OBE, for services to Medicine, Surgery and the NHS

🎉Huge congratulations @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social OBE!! #NYHonours @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social

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Letter summoning for jury duty

Marvellous. Another week of cancelled operating. Suppose kinda glad they’re not abolished yet though… #JuryDuty

Thank you - it’s no joke at this age cranking the brain up again but hey, the rage was strong