Festive Porpentine

A shout out to all of the people who find this time or year difficult for lots if reasons....
Big hugs to you ❤️

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Unsure. Tomorrow at the earliest. I’m having trouble keeping my oxygen stats up so that might scupper me.

Someone new has arrived and she is a DOCTOR. She is out-I-work-in-health-care-ing Sarah, who has become very subdued.

Michel from Gilmore Girls

(“Do you have any dietary requirements?”
“I’m vegetarian”
“Do you want bacon?”)

One of my nurses has spectacularly strong Michel-from-Gilmore-Girls vibes. I believe this will improve healing by approximately 500%

Ugh. And yes, fully agree.

Poor Pan. Fenris does appear to be on the warpath.

Starting to feel a bit better, thanks, but can barely keep my eyes open x

Thank you, Jane! That woman sounds extremely RUDE.

Haha! Thank you.

An Alan Bennett play is EXACTLY what it’s like.

Would that it were so simple! Thank you ☺️

Ward recluse, more like. Peeping round my purple curtains.

Hiding quite BADLY, Pan, we can SEE YOU

Welcome to my ward. Maria, Italian, absolutely NO inhibitions about expressing her pain. Katie, 18, never off the phone to her mum, a list of ailments as long as your arm. Sarah, ambulance worker, can’t let five minutes pass without mentioning it. Rachel, in a great deal of pain, softly sobbing.

Ha!

Ooooh 🤞🏻

Genuinely thinking of getting some to have at home, just for fun.

Thank you x

My thoughts EXACTLY 👌🏻

🎶 it’s time to put on make up, it’s time to light the lights 🎶

🩵

I do. Earlier, I had leg squeezers, which were very exciting.

Much ta-dah! potential

Thanks, Anna. I don’t recommend it, I’ll say that much x

Pleated papery lilac hospital curtain, lit by fluorescent ward lights, at the bottom of a bed with an mint-coloured blanket over porpentine legs.

🥳

Thank you 🙏🏻