Thursday...

Thursday was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. .

In Today's Issue..

A poem about uniforms - By Anne Rhodes.
Breaking the Law
Random Joke of the Day
Nursing
Finish with a Song

Here is a poem by Anne Rhodes, Entitled Uniforms..

UNIFORM    ©   Anne Rhodes

My memories, my only memories

From childhood, as far back as I can go,

Always in uniform - never civvies -

Always an image just like this photo.

Dark blue dress, and belt with buckle fastening,

Stiff white apron and lacy starched white hat.

Always showing matriarchal bearing

Very rarely any time for chitchat.

Sleeves that could be rolled above the elbow

Ending with white elasticated cuffs

A dress to show that everyone should know

Her word was law and that should be enough.

Night Sister, Assistant Matron, her job,

Family life was fitted round it slightly.

Pinned neatly on her breast, her watch, a fob.

She dealt with emergencies quite calmly.

Her colleagues known by their surname only,

Her uniform, her rank, said who was boss.

Her every word carried out quite promptly

Her team of nurses had that same ethos.

Her footfall fell quite softly through the night.

No patient disturbed once sleep had taken

Unless perhaps a problem came to light

Necessitating immediate action.

Her apron crackled as she walked the wards,

She loved her job, it was her life, always.

Pillows fluffed up well against the headboards

All the bedding tucked to level lengthways.

The years of real true training showed up well,

Every fact at fingertip when needed.

All the patients fears when she could, she’d quell;

And when cured, she’d bid them a fond farewell.

Working nights and days spent trying to sleep -

Her uniform a symbol of hard graft.

Knowledge of every illness ingrained deep

Apron white, dress blue, true signs of her craft.

Breaking the Law.

I'm going to give you a law.
Is it real - Breaking the Law, or have I made it up - Faking the Law.

It is illegal in the UK for you to allow your dog to mate with
the Queen's Corgi Dogs.

Is the Breaking the Law or Faking the Law
Answer below.

Random Joke of The Day

I like to sleep with the bedside lamp on, even though the wife reckons it's weird. I don't see how, I think it makes a great hat!

Nursing Facts

Florence Nightingale was named after the city in which she was born in 1820: Florence, Italy.

The NHS employs 314,966 qualified nursing staff and health visitors, 25,418 midwives and 23,066 GP practice nurses.

One in 10 hospital nurses in Britain are male. Fifty years ago, the figure was one in a hundred.

“Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face too, so much the better.” (Florence Nightingale).

NHS facts: The NHS is the largest employer in the UK and the 5th largest in the world

Breaking the Law

Earlier I asked is it illegal in the UK for you to allow your dog to mate with 
the Queen's Corgi Dogs?

This is TRUE !!

FINISH WITH A SONG

This Simply Red, with Night Nurse, released in 1997.