night out

Well last night was our works christmas night out, we all met up at The royal armories in Leeds, it was a great venue and the whole place was decked out in a Holloywood theme, lots of photo stills about of all the film stars past and present, we all made a special effort as we are so used to seeing one another in our paramedic greens , lots of sparkle and bling and that was just the guys!!!!
The food was really good, chicken or vegetarian wellington, so i was well sorted , lots of good music and dancing and laughter, the event concluded at 0130 and we made our way back home dropping a couple of friends home along the way,
Got up early today , lots to do still to prepare for christmas , youngest son arrives home on sunday with girlfriend, did a radio interview for his radio station yesterday "radio storm" at westminster university, my bit was about having to work over the festive period, it went ok i think,
So today i am shopping and then hopefully resting as am on a night shift tomight and all the office parties have started now so lots of drunk, unwell people to be called to i suspect.

tired and weary

Hi all out there,
well yesterday was my 8th day on early turn shifts, so i was well and truly knackered as the saying goes, too many early rises up at 0430 am to get ready for work.
I travel approx 11 miles to work and at that time the roads are really quiet, but 0n a 0600 o clock start it seems like the world wakes up at exactly that time, its like people are waiting in line for you to start work (or thats how it seems), the tannoy goes and the telephone and off we go, had a baby with epilepsy, lots of breathing difficulty patients , ( the weather has turned really cold now so all asthmatics and copd patients really begin to suffer ), had couple of deaths, a few patients with overdoses of medication, one patient with a heroin overdose, a diabetic who had a car crash, and a man who threw himself under a car.
Thats just a few of the things dealt with this week on early shift, so i am really ready for my 2 days off now, going christmas shopping with my mum today as i havnt had much time to spend with her of late.
Went to a meeting last night with the people that i met whilst i was in India, they were all from Batley and mirfield/ Dewsbury region so it was good to catch up with them , although i only met them for 6 days in october it was good to see them as firm friendships were made, hopefully i will be getting back to india again next year and back to the school in Gujurat again..
There was lots of food after the presentation , samosas and rice and bhajis etc , all my favorites.
So we are preparing for christmas although i will be working , i amj on half night shift so will at least be home in the day time, our youngest son who is studying in London will be arriving next week with his girlfriend and will stay 3 weeks with us, she is japanese so i want to make it a special christmas for her also,
lots of festive food and games to play and generally all the family will get together at our house on christmas day.
So thats all for today as i am about to hit the shops for a spot of retail therapy.