by Jools | Nov 2, 2023 | Flint & Steel
My Mother and Aunt have always been protective of my cultural wellbeing. When recovering post caesarian my wonderful aunt delivered handfuls of orange penguin paperbacks lest I should get bored or forget who Virginia Woolf was. Mum is always concerned that when on...
by Jools | Oct 24, 2023 | Flint & Steel, Uncategorized
*** Disclaimer First aid advice is always changing and improving. Always consider the latest guidance and be aware that these observations are my own and based on only 1 course held in the UK*** Last weekend I experienced what can only be described as Gore-Tex...
by Jools | Oct 23, 2023 | Flint & Steel, Uncategorized
by Jools | Oct 12, 2023 | Flint & Steel
Inflammatory arthritis appeared when I was first pregnant. I woke one day with hands that looked like pink bunches of bananas, roasting hot and almost impossible to move. At the time I worked as a doctor on a respiratory ward. We did lots of fiddly interventions;...
by Jools | Sep 19, 2023 | Flint & Steel
Summer in Switzerland 29 degrees I have a blog coming up where I interview a proper mountaineer; as in a person that has summited K2 and Everest multiple times kind-of-mountaineer. Writing about my experience of doing a via-ferrata seems a little tame, really. It’s a...
