In May last year, I read my e-mails at work, and my co-workers ran in, wondering why I’d shrieked. That’s to say, the men ran in to see if I needed help. The women ran away in case it was because of a spider. What had really happened was something I’d never expected. An acceptance…
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Thirty minutes to go. Minnie turned away from the clock on the wall and, smiling at the patient on the stretcher in front of her, raised the bedside rail and adjusted the elderly woman’s blanket. “OK, Ms. Parker. I’m going to take you back to the ER and the doctor will come and see you…
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Nigella’s christmas cookbook has a few yummy pork roasts: one marinated in apple cider and apple juice with an apple and onion gravy; and one which is a roulade marinated in worchestershire sauce and something else, apple cider too I believe, then stuffed with onion, dried cranberries, and spices and things. I did it with…
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