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A View From A Hospital Bed; Folk (Nowt So Queer As Edition)

11th November 2025 Colin Cross 0

It’s the waiting that gets to you. I’d arrived, as requested, at 7am and was escorted to a curtained cubicle. The people looking after me, although my needs were minimal at this time, were all [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?

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It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]

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