A Pregnant Pause?

In these days of lockdown, there’s not much that’s fun

That’s something that everyone knows

The highlight of each of the weeks as they pass

Is sticking a swab up ones nose

.

Two evenings a week we all sit on our own

And watch a short film as it shows – a

Sequence of steps that we now must all take

To sample our nasal mucosa

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The adding of saline to tubes, it is easy

But then comes the bit that one hates

The ticklish problem that has to be faced

Of brushing ones own turbinates

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Once done though it’s then that we nervously sit

As pregnant with tension we wait

If two lines appear then the questions will come

Of who we’ve spent time with of late!

Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.

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