It was snuggly and warm :-))

It sucks extremely hard. Sorry.

So many of us took our own sweet time to get there (in my case depressingly long.) Hang in there!

Well, for the sake of complete honesty… we arrived with 10 minutes AND 24 hours to spare. I’m now calling today a dry run. A dress rehearsal, if you will.
2/2

NB My children are not all still children. This stuff is never going to stop, is it?

Which means I can now use my brand new stamp. Which is most excellent.

I’ve ordered myself some excellent ink colours, and they’ve arrived now.

📌

Congratulations! At 46 now, I do worry that I wasn’t paying enough attention 4 years ago… If you come up with the question, do let the rest of us know!

The opportunity for shared leave, Dads to work LTFT for childcare, etc., etc. needs to be there - but alongside culture shift in society - and medicine (which seems to lag behind) - that it’s GOOD for men to also do these things, not just acceptable.

to abandon my kids to study enough to finally pass the FRCA… Supportive female role models in a speciality which has always had female consultants ahead of me. But probably most importantly - insane (and at times self-destructive) stubbornness, and desperation to make it to being a consultant.

I managed it through having a genuinely brilliant husband - who although I was the one who worked LTFT, has NEVER thought the kids weren’t equally his. Brilliant parents - who supported in the near-impossible 2 acute speciality trainees times, on the worse rotas 15+ years ago (and to allow me