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Inversions
Up on my Flickr site I have quite a few photos taken on my route to and from work. It’s one of the things I love most about where I live and work is that in between the two is a single-track road that...
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I was intending this weekend to catch up with cleaning. Not the most exciting of weekends, but I’ve had lots of exciting weekends and I really needed a boring one to catch up on housework. Meh. So I...
View ArticleNight search
After spending yesterday helping Mal move house, Mal, Louisa, Sean and I had a cracking good meal in the pub in Pentyrch. Excellent food, the caramelised goat’s cheese starter was just unbelievable. So...
View ArticleWhat do you do on a Saturday night?
I was at Dinas Rock in the Neath valley rescuing a young man with a potential spinal injury. Slipped after gorge walking, he felt a pain in his back and they didn’ hesitate before calling us. It was a...
View ArticleNo peace for the wicked?
I did not get a break. So yesterday as I started winding up and preparing to go home, the pager went off. An area standby for a rescue on Hay’s Bluff near Hay on Wye. So I headed up to base and caught...
View ArticleApathy and frustration
I’ve been rather apathetic about my blogging recently, sorry about that. I had a pretty busy week last week, including a search for a misper in Mountain Ash on Thursday which left me exhausted for...
View ArticleRescue at 900 feet!
Ok, so it’s not that impressive, but it was a busy shift today. 4 calls, one mountain rescue callout. The shift started off quiet with no calls from Ambulance control until Saturday morning, meaning...
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You wait ages for one and then a whole bunch come along at once!
The past few weeks have been mostly unbroken by shrill beeping of the pager with the exception of the regular Thursday night tests. That is, until Saturday. And it’s been a bizarre series of callouts....
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Sun, wind, pollen and rocks
Hayfever is hitting me pretty hard this year – I’ve had a number of people comment that they’re finding it difficult to cope as well, so it looks like there’s seriously potent pollen out there for some...
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Not working
This week I have been studiously not working. That, however, is fine, because I was not at work, I was in fact doing something that has been recommended to me, something I’ve heard is quite fun – this...
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