It’s been a while since I last wrote anything but here’s one I want to get off my chest. Warning: This is an upsetting blog. One Saturday afternoon Tony and I were called to an address to a report of an unresponsive baby. We get a lot of calls to ‘unresponsive babies’ which turn out to be drowsy and unwell with a fever but basically ok. Scary for the parents, especially first time parents. We’re not complacent about these calls and still use the blue lights to get there as quickly as safely possible but are quite relaxed. I was driving at the time and we weren’t far from the address so it did ..read more

This is a jokey look at the trials, tribulations and rewards of dating or being in a relationship with a member of an Ambulance service.  It is written in the style of an instruction manual.  Boom – think I’ve just lost most of my male readers! It applies equally to male or female and in the absence of any universally recognised gender-neutral pronouns I will use he, she, him and her at random (I’m not going to use the clumsy “he or she” every time), just assume that each applies equally in all cases. I’m going to use the term ‘ambo’ in the interest of fluidity and shorthand to mean all ambula ..read more