We all knew that this Christmas would be different. I just didn’t expect it to be quite THIS different. It’s Christmas Day and rather surprisingly, I find myself enjoying the hospitality of the Clinical Decisions Unit of the acclaimed Leicester heart hospital. To their credit, the NHS served up a decent turkey dinner. I particularly…
Tag: Christmas
The end of the Christmas Twilight Zone
We are finally escaping the annual twilight zone between Christmas and New Year – those unnerving and unsettling 10 days when we are not quite sure where we are, what day it is, and what exactly we are meant to be doing. Are we to celebrate, relax, work or to make full and productive use of…
And so that was Christmas . . .
So that was Christmas and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun. So what have we done?
Unwrapping
Waking at dawn, with hushed excitement, and sleepy eyes, ready to realise our dreams and our hopes, we lined up our presents and absorbed the coloured ribbons and paper.
Canaries Christmas
Strange, in the third week of December, to be sat round a pool in the blazing heat, concerned about burning rather than work and Christmas presents. Work can manage without me (I have to accept). My blackberry is switched off and safely locked in the room safe. And the presents will take care of themselves…
Unwrapping The World 