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Five and a half weeks...

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:36:35 -0700

"One, maybe two days in ITU, then seven to ten days back on the ward.." Those words echoed in my ears for two long, terrifying weeks in ITU, and for the three and a half weeks we spent back on the ward. Number two daughter has had her scoliosis...

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Seriously worrying times

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:38:11 -0800

I'm sitting in one of the side rooms of an orthopaedic ward in frenchay hospital tonight. My middle daughter is sleeping fairly peacefully next to me at the moment, but tomorrow morning, if all goes as planned, she'll go down to theatre for a maj...

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Absence makes....

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:18:04 -0800

After a long time away, I'm back again, like the proverbial bad penny. It's been a somewhat strange time, so much has changed, so many things have happened and I have now emerged, butterfly-like (ye Gods, that's a hell of a big butterfly...) int...

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Teachers on Strike

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:42:55 -0700

So a 2.45% payrise is not enough for the teachers of Britain (or at least, those in the N.U.T.), they want 4.1%. Teachers do work hard, there's no denying it, but they are amply recompensed by good holidays, and salaries already far in excess of...

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Spring is sprung

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:38:04 -0800

It's official, Spring has arrived! Well actually, rampant frogs have arrived and are laying down clouds of frogspawn in the pond. Every time I open the porch door, there's a splashing flurry of legs as the frog scoots away, all embarrassed at bei...

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Glasses half full?

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:31:52 -0800

Being ill is really beginning to tick me off. Not that I've ever enjoyed it, quite the opposite, I dislike intensely the curtailment of my freedom, my inability to do what I want to do, etc., but now I have to put up with things that used to wor...

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Sadness

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:39:54 -0800

Thumper, one of our rabbits died in my arms this evening. He was 7 years old, a beautifully fluffy, grey and white lop-eared bunny that we've had since he was so tiny he sat comfortably in the palm of my hand. I can't seem to stop crying for him,...

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Perceptions

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:23:31 -0800

Every one of us makes daily decisions about people and things, based on our own perception of the situation at the time. We don't always make the right decision, and by the time we've made it, or by the way we made it, it's often too late to reco...

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Very proud mum!

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:11:29 -0800

My youngest isn't really young any more, at 15 she's a self-confident and capable young woman, but some things still shake her composure and one of those is examinations. In November she sat her GCSE Maths as part of the top set in her year. It w...

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Wild Flowers Galore

nobody@vox.com(Jo) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:10:47 -0700

We've had lots of rain, lots of warmth, and plenty of sunshine, all of which have combined to create a perfect growing medium for the wildflower seeds Steve scattered on the rough 'rockery' patch. It was always going to be somewhat hit or miss as...

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