It is the wee small hours and I have just read the Telegraph and Argos to find they have not published my letter and I am really fed up. How dare the NHS Trust after cutting midwifery care to the bone, then say that a computer programme is going to enable midwves to spend more time with Mums. More midwives will enable midwives to spend more time with Mums, one mother one midwife care will enable midwves to spend more time with mums. Computer programmes generally won't provide what women need and want which is human beings who listen and care!
But who is going to lsiten? It is women's things isn't it? It is a niche. Forget the fact that everyone is born of a woman, forget that most women have to go through a birthing, forget that most fathers now attend the birth. The general public won't be interested. I don't know tha tthey will but they should be because we all ahve mothers and daughters, sisters and aunts and unless someone challenges the NHS when it oversteps the mark we will lose our choices and our human care.
I need to make cake. I need something to do which is creative and beautiful instead of the fickle. And now I think I also need ot sleep!
Ruth
Thursday, 8 February 2007
Saturday, 13 January 2007
Leopard Bras and Silence
Whew! What a week or three we have had. So posted nothing.
I have had fever for three days (went to the Christmas crib service in my pyjamas covered by my coat!), Christmas was one long round of relatives. The bliss of New Years Day doing nothing seeing no one. And then 2nd January faced with our office in a cupboard, no phone, no broadband, all the office move to finish and customers to serve.
On Thursday this week I bought 18 bras, agreed a price for another business and signed a three year contract for a telephone service. On Friday I was offered a directorship on a social enterprise, we chose a school for my son, and chatted on Radio Leeds.
But I am still here and I have baked cakes - for sanity, creativity and taste! Grasmere ginger bread, and apple cake (which was delicious with cream) and I altered an old recipe to make the most delicious ginger biscuits I have made yet. I thought they were anyhow - and 4 trays of them disappeared pretty quick.
Tonight I went to a party. The party was birthday honours for a friend - we met when I was University Chaplain and she was Women's Officer. How the world moves on! My 5 children and her three. Our stories of birth and loss. It was a good evening - quiet, gentle and affectionate.
So here I am in the early hours able to contemplate a blog, uninterrupted and unburdened.
So thankyou
for challenge and excitement and possibility
Thankyou for cashflows and budgets and strategic planning.
Thankyou for Radio Leeds, for leopard pattened bras and birthing baths.
And thankyou for home, for family
For glasses of wine, good food and friendship
Thankyou for conversation and story telling
Thankyou for the night's silence
Thankyou for peace
And time to enjoy it.
Thankyou
I have had fever for three days (went to the Christmas crib service in my pyjamas covered by my coat!), Christmas was one long round of relatives. The bliss of New Years Day doing nothing seeing no one. And then 2nd January faced with our office in a cupboard, no phone, no broadband, all the office move to finish and customers to serve.
On Thursday this week I bought 18 bras, agreed a price for another business and signed a three year contract for a telephone service. On Friday I was offered a directorship on a social enterprise, we chose a school for my son, and chatted on Radio Leeds.
But I am still here and I have baked cakes - for sanity, creativity and taste! Grasmere ginger bread, and apple cake (which was delicious with cream) and I altered an old recipe to make the most delicious ginger biscuits I have made yet. I thought they were anyhow - and 4 trays of them disappeared pretty quick.
Tonight I went to a party. The party was birthday honours for a friend - we met when I was University Chaplain and she was Women's Officer. How the world moves on! My 5 children and her three. Our stories of birth and loss. It was a good evening - quiet, gentle and affectionate.
So here I am in the early hours able to contemplate a blog, uninterrupted and unburdened.
So thankyou
for challenge and excitement and possibility
Thankyou for cashflows and budgets and strategic planning.
Thankyou for Radio Leeds, for leopard pattened bras and birthing baths.
And thankyou for home, for family
For glasses of wine, good food and friendship
Thankyou for conversation and story telling
Thankyou for the night's silence
Thankyou for peace
And time to enjoy it.
Thankyou
Leopard Bras and Silence
Whew! What a week or three we have had. So posted nothing.
I have had fever for three days (went to the Christmas crib service in my pyjamas covered by my coat!), Christmas was one long round of relatives. The bliss of New Years Day doing nothing seeing no one. And then 2nd January faced with our office in a cupboard, no phone, no broadband, all the office move to finish and customers to serve.
On Thursday this week I bought 18 bras, agreed a price for another business and signed a three year contract for a telephone service. On Friday I was offered a directorship on a social enterprise, we chose a school for my son, and chatted on Radio Leeds.
But I am still here and I have baked cakes - for sanity, creativity and taste! Grasmere ginger bread, and apple cake (which was delicious with cream) and I altered an old recipe to make the most delicious ginger biscuits I have made yet. I thought they were anyhow - and 4 trays of them disappeared pretty quick.
Tonight I went to a party. The party was birthday honours for a friend - we met when I was University Chaplain and she was Women's Officer. How the world moves on! My 5 children and her three. Our stories of birth and loss. It was a good evening - quiet, gentle and affectionate.
So here I am in the early hours able to contemplate a blog, uninterrupted and unburdened.
So thankyou
for challenge and excitement and possibility
Thankyou for cashflows and budgets and strategic planning.
Thankyou for Radio Leeds, for leopard pattened bras and birthing baths.
And thankyou for home, for family
For glasses of wine, good food and friendship
Thankyou for conversation and story telling
Thankyou for the night's silence
Thankyou for peace
And time to enjoy it.
Thankyou
I have had fever for three days (went to the Christmas crib service in my pyjamas covered by my coat!), Christmas was one long round of relatives. The bliss of New Years Day doing nothing seeing no one. And then 2nd January faced with our office in a cupboard, no phone, no broadband, all the office move to finish and customers to serve.
On Thursday this week I bought 18 bras, agreed a price for another business and signed a three year contract for a telephone service. On Friday I was offered a directorship on a social enterprise, we chose a school for my son, and chatted on Radio Leeds.
But I am still here and I have baked cakes - for sanity, creativity and taste! Grasmere ginger bread, and apple cake (which was delicious with cream) and I altered an old recipe to make the most delicious ginger biscuits I have made yet. I thought they were anyhow - and 4 trays of them disappeared pretty quick.
Tonight I went to a party. The party was birthday honours for a friend - we met when I was University Chaplain and she was Women's Officer. How the world moves on! My 5 children and her three. Our stories of birth and loss. It was a good evening - quiet, gentle and affectionate.
So here I am in the early hours able to contemplate a blog, uninterrupted and unburdened.
So thankyou
for challenge and excitement and possibility
Thankyou for cashflows and budgets and strategic planning.
Thankyou for Radio Leeds, for leopard pattened bras and birthing baths.
And thankyou for home, for family
For glasses of wine, good food and friendship
Thankyou for conversation and story telling
Thankyou for the night's silence
Thankyou for peace
And time to enjoy it.
Thankyou
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