Happy birthday NHS. Makes me think that my Mum is 80 and was born when there was no NHS, but she was lucky that she had no major health problems when she was little.
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Happy 80th Birthday Mum!
This is the 2nd “off message” post in a row but it is my personal blog and many families in the UK (and elsewhere) are in similar circumstances. Gill and I spoke to my Mum on FaceTime this morning to wish her happy birthday and had a lovely chat….Read more…
Happy Mothers Day!
Off message but…
Happy Mother’s Day Mum! Lovely to speak to you on Facetime tonight and so sorry we cannot meet up at Easter due to virus.
Keep safe and well.
Lots of love
John & Gill xxx
(me with spade, big sister Helen and little sister Lucy…Read more…
Student Nurse Margaret Matthews circa 1960
Off message but marvellous picture of my Mum, Margaret Gray (nee Matthews) when she was a student mental health nurse aged 18 in Denbigh, North Wales around 1960 (she is on the left).
It was originally in a local newspaper (?) and our family had thoug…Read more…
Kyffin Williams: The way to the cottages
Love this. Calendar present 2018 (March) from my Mum. Painting by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams sometime 1990 – 2006. Read more…
Happy Mothers Day! (and End Maternity Discrimination)
Happy Mother’s Day to my lovely Mum, Margaret Gray and shout out to @rokhsanafiaz #Rokhs4Mayor call to end #maternity discrimination on this #MotheringSunday
As a trade unionist I know that mothers are sacked or forced out of work every day of the w…Read more…
Kyffin Williams, ‘The Gathering, Farmers on Glyder Fach’
Top present this Christmas from my Mum was a 2018 calendar featuring the North Walian impressionist painter, Kyffin Williams. The “Gathering” is my favorite. Read more…
Some facts and figures about 8 June
Hat tip to Dave Ratchford for the chart and figures below. Worth reflecting about I think.
“Labour Share of Vote in recent elections
1983 206 seats 27.6% of the vote 8.4m1987 229 seats 30.9% of the vote 10m1992 271 seats 34.4% of the vote 11.5m19…Read more…