Friday, August 20, 2010

Gloria Oates

Friday, 20 August 2010

I went to the funeral of Gloria Oates today held at Manchester Cathedral where there was a congregation of hundreds paying their respects. Gloria was my first boss in the NHS. She had worked her way from nurse to become AGM with North Western RHA in 1985, in between times having five daughters with her husband, Graham. You can read more about her career here, but suffice to say she was a formidable woman.

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Chunky Monkey

Friday, 20 August 2010

I don’t receive many presents (awww) but when I do, they’re memorable, Sometimes quite literally. Yesterday I was given a small box of sweets that whisked me back to my childhood. They’re the pineapple chunks that I’ve posed in a jar on the left. Fifty years ago they were a treat from Mrs Taylor’s toffee shop at 3d a quarter when I got my weekly ‘spends’. {That’s three old pence for four ounces.} I loved them and would scoff one after another even though I knew that sucking their hard, [...]

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