Tag: oxford
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Unlikely friends | the people we meet
A few extra days off over the Easter long weekend saw me take a solo trip to Bath on Good Friday, to catch up with a dear friend of nearly sixteen years and enjoy the sunshine that we have been severely lacking these past few months. The story I would like to share actually has…
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On night shift | adjusting to upset routines
Shift work in any field, let alone medical, can be gruelling, and this week saw Reuben with an array of overnight shifts with finish times between 2am and 6:30am. Being a stay at home wife with “no money, and no prospects” (peep Jane Austen fans), his routine inevitably becomes my own. If you are anybody…
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Sunny with a chance of meatballs
Despite outside temperatures being at thirty degrees, today (Thursday) has been a day of baking in the British Jarvela household. Why I have delayed using my oven until the second heatwave of the year I do not know. Each time I open the door a waft of hot air sweeps out and hangs overhead, compounding…
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