Archive for June, 2009
Women… stop picking on men!
Just because women were treated like idiots for centuries doesn’t give us the right to take revenge on men. The Nurse remembers when very few women had decent jobs, if they worked at all. The telly showed us climbing all over hunky blokes wearing ‘Denim’ aftershave, breasts heaving. Or flitting around the living room in a frilly pinny dusting the skirting [...]
The Nurse goes imaginary walking
Some people have imaginary friends. The Nurse goes imaginary walking. Before being banged up The Nurse was a keen walker. She’d stride the South Downs Way twenty shining miles at a time, drowning in the spiralling song of skylarks. She’d push her lithe body up the soaring crags of Langdale Pikes. She’d wander the Cleveland Way collecting owl pellets and smelling sun-dried heather. [...]
Stroke surgery activates artistic talent!
The Nurse is amused to read today’s Daily Mail story about stroke victim Alan Brown. Alan recovered from 16 hours of surgery only to discover a completely new talent. Suddenly he’s painting like a man possessed, well enough to pass a fine art degree. Before his operation he could barely draw a stick man. Some people, as The Nurse knows [...]
General Motors failure ‘Darwinian’?
Adapt and evolve… or die Economics and Darwinism have a lot in common. The Nurse has been keeping a weather eye on General Motors for a few years now – ensconced in clink at Her Majesty’s Pleasure - and she isn’t surprised they’ve gone belly up. Over the past decade GM resisted positive change on a spectacular scale. While many Americans turned to [...]
