soggy horses

Today was my first day off since Saturday, I went down to see my two lovely soggy horses, they seem to be getting on much better now thank goodness. I gave them a short feed today too, as its been wet and cold for a few days. I fed them in the field , in separate corners and as soon as they were finished I picked up the bowls before they had the chance to eat out of each others.
Actually they didn't make any moves towards each others bowls they just wandered off to eat the grass again.
I then went down to pick my car up from the garage, now this was a bit of an ouch moment as it cost twice what I thought it would, the break calliper had stuck on or something and the breaks were then metal on metal! I am sure this means something to somebody, it just doesn't to me. That said my Mechanic is the best one in the county, so I know I haven't been conned and I also know that the job was done well.
The Jimmy Saville news story is on going today with more and more people coming forward or being found, this is just so utterly shocking that some one with such celebrity status who did so much fund raising for kids should turn out to be such a sexual predator to teenage girls.

Fail!

10 Years

Almost ten years ago I joined the Ambulance service, since then I have had my fair share of laughs, and tears.. most of these events have been done with my regular crewmate. Today we spent our last shift as crewmates, if I get the bank position I hoped for I may get another shift with him, but if not that will be the last time we work together, I have to admit I cried when I left the station. When you go through some of the things that we have been through there is a bond of friendship which can't be broken. He has saved my skin on more than one occasion, either by dragging me out of harms way or intervening when something is about to "kick off".
Tomorrow I start my new job working in a maternity unit, I am anxious that I have perhapse not made the right decision but I think that at the moment I am still emotional from leaving Tepic and the others who I have been working with, lets face it ten years is a long time and it hasn't been all bad jobs!
Tepic, I raise my glass to you, I hope you get a crewmate who is fun and will have your back no matter what, thank you for being the best crewmate I could have possibly had. x

Oi Mister I think yer orse is dead!

This didn't happen today but as I was again at the museum, I thought I would add it.
Whilst working one of the shires in the tip cart, a middle aged man, certainly not from the country judging by his clothing, came up to me and said. "Excuse me miss I think one of your horses is dead"!
I suggested that it was quite common for horses to lay down in the field and rest but he wasn't convinced and began to get a bit, well to say that he was being rude would be slightly too strong but he was getting close, so I said I would go and make the horse get up so that he could see that it was fine. Some more mumbling and suggestions that I didn't know what I was talking about came to me as I walked down to the gate.
There were the two horses both laying in the field, one flat out the other sat up.

Poor old fella having me poke him when all he wanted to do was have a chill out in what could be some of the last warm sun of the year just because some chap wouldn't be told!

As I got close and called his name the old fella lifted his head and looked at me, that was enough I tried to go with out disturbing him further but he got up anyway.

Big Bird

The other thing that has happened during my time away from my blog, is that I have another horse, She is a Shire called Big Bird, very gentle and at present being bullied by mouse!! Yes, my little Mouse who has always been the under dog has become a bully and I have to say I don't like it one little bit!
I think its to do with jealousy, Mouse is jealous of any time I spend with Bird, I am hoping that she snaps out of it and realises that I don't love her any less, before one of them gets hurt!
When they don't know I am there they don't seem to have a problem with each other which makes me think that in time they will become friends.

New Beginnings... or, Have I done the right thing!

This will be my last week as a full time Ambulance person. I have decided to dip my toe into maternity and see if I like the temperature!
I shall, all being well still do some work for the ambulance service, it will be bank work although as yet I have not had any of the promised paperwork!
My last shift is Sunday, my first shift is Monday, no point hanging around!
To date I have delivered about 9 babies, okay then, one of those all we did was fish it out the toilet and wrap it in a towel, he was a whopping 9 pounder too!
Looking back over the last 10  years there have been some funny moments... being dragged backwards down a garden path by Tepic who was shouting "Time to go" being one of them, he had seen a crazy lady with a rather large kitchen knife running at us we tried to lock ourselves in the truck but the locks didnt work!!
Another time one of my crewmates was being seen back in the ambulance by a police man who managed to make her reverse into the dog handlers police car!!!
We have seen people cut their wrists with an open dog food tin, knives, razors and glass. I've had people OD on the most random tablets and some very sad times too, with Paediatric resuses, seriously ill babies and children, to the most shocking RTA's and sad family situations.
The one thing that has been the same all the way through is the support of my crewmates... the station I work out of is one in a million, it went from being sleepy hollow to one of the busiest in the service practically over night, but the staff who work there are the best. The station is small with just the one ambulance and a rota of twelve staff, although at the moment we only have ten. Most of the time we all get on and share the laughs and sadness between ourselves.
I will be sorry to go, and leave my crewmates. I just hope I haven't made the wrong decision!

The weekend according to Me!

Well what can I say, this week end there are lots of things happening, the two main things involve two of my friends, The Northern Bird is down for the week and is arriving on Saturday, I am picking her up from the station after work, and I cant wait! We always have a laugh and have a good catch up.

We have cast a mould for two rituals, one is that at some point whilst she is down we will go to Pizza Hut, the other is just the fact that she is down at this time, every February she travels south and every September I go north. Its good to keep in touch even though we live so far apart now!

The other thing that is happening this weekend I can't put in writing yet, but that doesn't make it any the less exciting.

Ssshhhhh!!!!!

I have a secret! I can't tell anyone and I'm really looking forward to the day this secret happens, which all being well should be with in the next three weeks! Don't you just hate it when people do that? Tell half a story, well that's all you are getting for now.

I went back to Aikido last night, the first time in about 10 months, this morning I ache like mad! And I have agreed to go to the gym with my friend, I can't imagine what I will be like tomorrow for work. Ahh well, at least my fitness levels should hopefully go up and I will loose some weight! To mention nothing of the fact I love Aikido.

Millie is going away for a week beginning tomorrow so I will have Mouse and Maxime to do, fortunately I just have to put Maxime out and bring her in as someone else is doing the mucking out.

Things to look forward to.....

In chronological order:-

My friend coming to see me Wednesday, we haven't caught up properly for several months.

A family get together next Saturday, arranged by my son, all four of the kids(!) together for the first time in 18 months.

The Northern Bird down to stay for a week, Oh what can we get up to??

Then in March I am trying to get a lunch in London sorted out for "the Birthday club" you know who you are!

scratchy and itchy

Whilst at work this week I went to a job in a 10 feet down ditch, a roll over RTA, fortunately and amazingly the patient was unharmed and once the seat belt had been cut by yours truly, he was able to climb out through the shattered window and with the assistance of my crew mate, the police and fire service climb out of the ditch and into our ambulance for a check over..... I on the other hand managed to get attacked by a thorn bush, and also get slivers of glass in my hands!
At home I put plasters on to draw the glass and thorns out, (which did happen quite well, just a small amount of digging with a needle to help them out) but as I had run out of hypo allergenic plasters, I had used normal ones so now, I have wheels of angry blisters where the plasters were.
To cap all the above.... I got sent home from work in the middle of the night last night with a temperature shivers, sore throat head ache.... think that about covers it! Ah well back on sickness monitoring again I guess as it can only have been three weeks ago I had the Norovirus and was off for four days. I would like a tablet that would stop me picking up all these bugs please.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Just to add insult to injury, as well as having an out of control daughter, my work has decided that my contract is wrong and that it needs to be dramatically changed, well, they are saying that what I requested last year and was agreed hasn't been put in place properly so I have to re submit it which makes me a new contract and oh yes, all new part time contracts don't keep their line or their crewmate. This is so not helpful, I will now have to do the shifts that they can't cover anywhere within the seven stations in my locale.

This is how they define family friendly..........

Help!

When you have a teenager who is totally out of control... and I do mean that literally, where do you go for help?
I can tell you where you can't get help! That would be, Social Services, CAMHS, Council... to a degree school.
There is nothing in place to help parents, is that because we have dug our own grave?? My daughter is one of four, she is the youngest, none of our kids were angels I am not suggesting that but the other three had respect for us, they pretty much did as they were asked, they went to school, didn't swear at us, lie steal smoke under age, drink under age......
We have brought them all up in the same way.
This is making me ill!

Last year I had 4 months off work with stress and depression, and so much for the family friendly approach of my employers, I had  requested a change of shift pattern which was agreed then they messed it up and I am now being told I could go onto relief work, which means I won't know from one week to the next what shifts I am doing!! My husband is a shift worker and we have to be able to sort out someone to be home every night, this is turning into the biggest nightmare ever. Sometimes I can see no way out of the mess my life is in

One person

How much hate can one person take before they give up trying to make things good?
 How much rudeness and foul mouthing can one person take before they shut their ears?
How many times can one person be kicked once they are down before they just don't try and get up again?
 How many people need to be recruited to gang up on one person?
Not much more!
Not much more!
Not many more!
Apparently many!
One person has tried to be a good parent!
One person has apparently failed!

High winds throughout the country...

Happy New Year

Today is the first day of the new year, everybody has high expectations for a new start a happy and healthy prosperous new year... I'm old enough now to know that its pipe dreams for most of us, there will be good times and bad times, times when we are struggling for money and others when we are comfortable. I just hope that I get through it with out too many scars now! Is that a bad thing? New years resolutions too.... how many of my resolutions from last year did I keep up? A big fat zero! I want to loose weight but I eat too much! I want to go to the gym but shy away because of all the fit bodies making me look and feel even worse about myself... perpetual circle... I also want to earn more and work less hahaha. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Nativity part 5

When Jesus was born, a brand new bright star appeared in sky. Some Wise Men in faraway countries saw the star and guessed what it meant. They were very clever men that studied the stars and had read in very old writings that a new star would appear when a great king was born. They set out to find the new king and bring him gifts.