What made you smile today?
- Thread starter snowbunny
- Start date
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
Just fed the dogs . Nelly picked up a piece of broccoli stalk and placed it beside her bowl in a somewhat disgusted manner, then finished the rest. Enter Reuben who clocked the stalk and moved in whereupon Nelly, quick as a flash , dived in and ate it 
- Location
- Close to Devon/Somerset border
We have good days and bad days with itWhat a sweetheart.Are his tummy issues settling a bit?
he’s coming up 3 months now so I’m hoping over the next few weeks we might see some more improvement with him getting older xx
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
- Location
- Close to Devon/Somerset border
Wish we had a 'Love it to bits' button for pics like that adorable Rory_Babe 
- Location
- Close to Devon/Somerset border
He’s on new milk now and he seems to be putting much more weight onLooking more closely @Jen , for a lad who has had tummy etc. problems, he seems to have sturdy rugby player thighs
Gone up about 1.5lb in 3 weeks 
- Location
- Close to Devon/Somerset border
Brilliant, long may that continue 
He looking great I can't believe how much he's grown XXX
So I just have Chewie his dinner, which was some kibble and cooked food. The kibble was eaten inside and I "hid" the Kong on plain sight on the deck and told him to "go search" for it. The silly boy ran past it THREE TIMES before grabbing it and gleefully running inside. He knows they are an outside food...
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
I've been smiling this morning, while outside clipping my hedge, thinking about how I was chatting yesterday with one of the GP's I used to work with in the lovely Cottage Hospital we used to have in our small, very rural, local town.
It was a wonderful time in my profressional life, we had just 11 beds and a minor injury unit, which kept us busy, anything from the local fishmonger cutting his hand, kids coming off ponies, farmers getting kicked by cows and some nasty accidents. It was all overseen by the doctors, we worked closely together and they were very caring and skilled. But boy, did we have some laughs along the way!
This all before anyone had heard of an Out of Hours Service, they did their own, and the people of the remote area we serviced didn't abuse the system, they highly valued the doctors and the service they gave to the locality, and held them in high esteem. There were few boxes to tick in those days. I can honestly say I loved that job, it never felt like going to work. I consider myself so lucky to have been there at that time.
While I was happy in work, personally I was not, and when I split very unhappily with my children's father, this GP and one other were so kind to me, literally going out of their way to see that I was OK. When they retired the local paper wrote an article under the headline "end of an era as GP's bid farewell". It was indeed the end of an era, but they live on in the photo I cut out and still have on my kitchen wall! They are, as I told him, a little yellow round the edges, but they will always be there.
It was a wonderful time in my profressional life, we had just 11 beds and a minor injury unit, which kept us busy, anything from the local fishmonger cutting his hand, kids coming off ponies, farmers getting kicked by cows and some nasty accidents. It was all overseen by the doctors, we worked closely together and they were very caring and skilled. But boy, did we have some laughs along the way!
This all before anyone had heard of an Out of Hours Service, they did their own, and the people of the remote area we serviced didn't abuse the system, they highly valued the doctors and the service they gave to the locality, and held them in high esteem. There were few boxes to tick in those days. I can honestly say I loved that job, it never felt like going to work. I consider myself so lucky to have been there at that time.
While I was happy in work, personally I was not, and when I split very unhappily with my children's father, this GP and one other were so kind to me, literally going out of their way to see that I was OK. When they retired the local paper wrote an article under the headline "end of an era as GP's bid farewell". It was indeed the end of an era, but they live on in the photo I cut out and still have on my kitchen wall! They are, as I told him, a little yellow round the edges, but they will always be there.
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Yes, I left that job when the local health authority or trust whatever it was by then decided to close the hospital an it all went over to PFI. I wanted to stay in the NHS, so ended up district nursing for the rest of my career, until last year, where I was equally happy. I've been very lucky really.
Naya
Moderator
- Location
- Bristol, UK
Through everything Harley has been through over the past few months, she still loves her walks and especially the water
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Well they are a thing of the past now, they have been replaced by Community hospitals, some of which have minor injury units and some don't. The GP cover would be different now, and it depends on the level of skill of the doctors and nurses.
Back in the days I'm talking about, the cottage hospital was a halfway house between hospital and home, or the other way round, respite care for elderly relatives cared for at home by families. That never should have stopped in my opinion.
Any injuries that came in were either treated by us if we had the knowledge and skills, or sent to A & E in the nearest DGH, 25 miles away.
Way back, lots of GP's did quite a bit of surgery themselves, but those days are very long gone
This is a bit niche, but today I bought a bottle of milk that has made me very happy! Our friends have a dairy farm in our village and they’ve recently gone out on a limb to sell un-homogenised pasteurised milk ‘direct to the customer’ from a vending machine in our local town. Today it was up and running and I bought my first bottle - it’s delicious. I hope they do really well.