Nightingale

04/07/2022 1 Comments

I first met Wendy 20 years ago when we worked in a local District Hospital. Between us we provided training programs for staff caring for patients...

07/12/2021 0 Comments

Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based...

26/11/2021 0 Comments

Poppy Appeal A centenary Of single, scarlet petals Lest we should forget This bold sacrifice Rivers of blood, and heartache For those left behind...

25/10/2021 0 Comments

What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I...

25/08/2021 0 Comments

Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon This year would have been Princess Diana’s sixtieth birthday. I met her briefly. This is a story of the...

12/07/2021 0 Comments

Wedding Haiku Share each other’s lives In many ways. Go gently, Special friends always. Lesley Young – Writer and Poet ...

19/06/2021 0 Comments

Identity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...

21/05/2021 0 Comments

On Becoming a University Lecturer I imagined this place would be grand With spires, and Eminent professors with spectacles And flowing gowns...

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I can resist anything but temptation * You’ll never be left on the shelf Reclining there so provocatively In your skimpy white robe...

07/04/2021 0 Comments

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