Last night wasn’t a bad night shift but was a tad
busier than I would have liked. With nearly a hundred blood samples it was a
far cry from how night shifts used to be. I was rather pleased when the day
shift showed up.
I drove home listening to the antics of Adrian Mole
until I got near to Leeds Castle. I switched over to Radio Ashford and the
fizzy static slowly gave way to Steve doing the “Guess the Lyrics”
competition. “So many nights I long to hold you. So many nights I looked and
saw your face”. No? I had no idea either. It was
“Human” by The Human League.
Rather than going home I went straight to the paddock
at Repton and opened up for Dog Club. “er indoors TM” and
the dogs soon arrived, and were followed by loads of other dogs. We had at
least eighteen dogs along today. All were in high spirits, and all played
nicely. Morgan did get a tad over-excited, but these days over-excited for him
is an enthusiastic bout of dog-piggy-backs.
“er indoors TM” went
off to craft club. I took the dogs home listening to Steve doing the mystery
year competition on the radio – Kylie Minogue singing “On a Night Like This"?
– 2000.
By the time I’d had a shower and a spot of brekkie it
was after half past ten. If I went to bed that would be the entire day wasted.
So I sat on the sofa with the dogs listening to the radio… and woke just in
time to hear Steve saying goodbye.
I watched an episode of the (relatively) new “Upstairs
Downstairs” then as “er indoors TM” returned
I counted the Dog Club money. There wasn’t very much in the pot bearing on mind
how busy the last couple of weeks have been. Perhaps people are paying on-line?
We had a vague idea to go out for a walk, but by the
time we’d had a spot of lunch and I’d figured out how to wear my new carpal
tunnel wrist splint thingy, the postman had arrived with two magazines. “Viz”
will be read from cover to cover many times, and “Transfusion Medicine”
is already in the bin. Not that I don’t read it; the thing is available in an
on-line format to members of the British Blood Transfusion Society (bet you
didn’t know that among the letters after my name are MBBTS, did you…). I
suspect my membership fees would be less if I could opt out of getting a hard
copy every month.
So rather than going out we sat in the garden and I
sniggered at Viz magazine. It must be thirty years of more since I first
discovered it, and it still makes me giggle.
Unlike this new carpal tunnel wrist splint thingy.
After a few rather uncomfortable hours I had a look on
Google to find out about it. Apparently I should wear the thing at night, but
only during the day *if* I’m doing anything which puts strain on my
wrist. So I took it off.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up a rather good curry which we scoffed whilst watching more episodes of “Young
Sheldon”. I’m feeling tired – the night shift has taken its toll…
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