by Jools | Dec 28, 2023 | Flint & Steel
It was the night before the night before Christmas and thirteen lithe ballerinas be-tutu’d and be-pinkslippered poised and twinkling join company to perform their tights off to an adoring audience of …One. Yup, I am back in another village hall in rural...
by Jools | Dec 7, 2023 | Flint & Steel
2 minute silences are much longer than they sound. For the first 30 seconds I get tangled up in meta; thinking about not thinking, being silent but trying to be not thinking about thinking about being silent. I wonder how everyone else’s minds are turning and assume...
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;...