UCLH News – Governor’s Involvement Article

I recently wrote an article for UCLH News about some of the things Governors have been up to for the last year, it’s short so there’s not so much detail but (given the number of people who find this blog by searching for UCLH Governors) I thought some might find it helpful/interesting.

A year and a half later

It’s a full year and a half since I last blogged here.

Life has been eaten up, in a good way, by work, being a hospital governor at UCLH, and generally living.

I’m going to keep the blog going because there’s some valuable and amusing insights here (and because people continue to view it on a very regular basis) but blogging will happen as and when it strikes me. I’ll apologise now if it’s another year and half before you see anything here again.

What I have done is set up a new blog to journal my recent ankle reconstruction and recovery. Using a new blog allows me to not bore you all with stories of sore feet and to have a specific place for other soon-to-be ankle reconstruction patients to look for information on what recovery really looks like, as I did prior to signing up for it. So for the meanwhile, if you’re really interested, you can follow proceedings at My Left Ankle.

TTFN.

Family and friends

There’s a Maori proverb that goes: “ Ui mai koe ki ahau he aha te mea nui o te ao, Māku e kī atu he tangata, he tangata, he tangata!” Ask me what is the greatest thing in the world, I will reply: It is people, it is people, it is people!

I *really* miss my people right now. Perhaps I feel it more keenly because my whanau  are a lot further away – the expat way of life. Perhaps it is because I am quite an emotionally charged person. Perhaps it is…nope I don’t know the answer why but I do know that I wish I could go home and give Mum and Dad a hug, and the rest of them.

Pondering…

It is well past my bed time and yet the urge to write pervades my attempts to sleep.

It has been a long time since I wrote a proper post. Several times I have considered writing one of those “This is my last post” posts but I know, inevitably, I will be seized by the urge to write again several days later. Thing is, having lived vicariously through others as I got more and more unwell, I took life by the horns [pondering 1 - where did life get horns from] in February this year when I returned to work. It’s been go, go, go ever since. [pondering 2 - how is is that it seems that time speeds up as we get older?]

An open letter to Ocado

[Also sent to ocado@ocado.com]

Dear Ocado,

I’ve been a long-time and loyal customer of Ocado but I’m starting to wonder if it might be time to move to Waitrose Delivery. In the last 6 months we’ve had a few too many broken/squashed goods and far too many late deliveries without notice.

The cake, however, has been taken with our delivery this week (not literally).