Now that I have flattered you all gratuitously and hopefully made you feel all warm and gloopy inside, I am going to be terrible and appalling and utterly shameless and enlist your help in not one but two separate ventures. Whether or not I shall continue to address you in the second person is currently unknown ( Read more... )

My mother has brought home the shiny.

Seriously.

My mother is a hospital doctor with a management role, which essentially means that she does three per job's-worth of work instead of the two that most people do. Days on which she is home at any kind of sensible hour are a rarity, and stress is a constant. She loves her job, and wouldn't have ( Read more... )