‘I can’t help thinking that’s it’sreally rather easy to come up with wise sounding aphorisms’, said Piglet to Pooh one morning.
‘It is Piglet’, said Pooh, ‘But you’ll find it very much harder to actually live by them’.
#EasierSaidThanDone
‘Pooh,’ said Piglet one morning, ‘have you noticed a bear and rabbit repeatedly turning up on your newsfeed offering the same winsome advice for which we were once known?’
‘Yes I have,’ replied Pooh, ‘and frankly it’s doing my head in.’
#PoohAndPiglelaySecondFiddle
‘What’s the matter, Piglet?’ asked Pooh.
‘I feel anxious..overwhelmed by all that I’m asked to do working in the NHS’
‘What do you see around you?’, asked Pooh.
Piglet answered quickly. ‘I see a long,long list of those I need to see today, the anguish in the faces of people waiting for pain relieving surgery, the inevitability of ever longer waiting lists, the fear of those who can’t get an emergency ambulance in a timely fashion…and I see no hope of it ever getting better’.
‘What do you hear?’ asked Pooh.
‘Criticism in the press, demands for more from those in power, sadness in the voices of those with whom I consult and desperation in the voices of those with whom I work.’
‘What can you smell and taste?’ Asked Pooh.
‘Whatever it is I can smell, it stinks and as for taste…well it’s the taste of things to come’, answered Piglet.
‘Now…what do you feel?’ asked Pooh.
‘Worse than ever’, said Piglet.
‘Well that went well’, thought Pooh.
#PoohAndPigketReflectOnTheNHS, #Mindlessness
‘What’s the matter Piglet?’, asked Pooh seeing his friend looking sad.
‘Oh Pooh’, replied Piglet, ‘it’s just that The Hundred starts this week and I’m so worried about what franchise cricket will do to the county game’.
‘I share your concern Piglet. That’s why I won’t be watching The Hundred and will be following the RLODC instead’.
‘Will that help?’
‘I don’t know Piglet – but that doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do’.
Piglet paused. ‘Who will you be supporting Pooh?’
‘Why Somerset of course!’
‘Will they win?’
‘Oh I should think so. Would you like to come with me to a game?’
‘Can I Pooh? That would be nice’.
‘It would’, agreed Pooh, taking Piglet’s hand. ‘it would be very nice indeed’.
Then Piglet wasn’t sad anymore.
#PoohAndPigletWatchCricketTogether
‘Pooh,’ said Piglet one morning, ‘I’m worried about the rising cost of living. I’ve done as you suggested but looking at the stars and feeling the grass under my feet hasn’t made me feel any less anxious about whether I’ll be able to pay my winter fuel bills.’
At first Pooh said nothing but then a hum came suddenly into his head. It seemed to him a Mindless Hum, such as is Hummed Hopelessly to Others.
The colder it
GROWS-tiddley-pom
The more one
KNOWS-tiddely-pom
The more one
KNOWS-tiddley-pom
One’s
Owing
But nobody
KNOWS-tiddely-pom
How much one
OWES-tiddley-pom
How much one
OWES-tiddlley-pom
Is
Growing
His hum completed, Pooh looked at his friend.
‘Has that helped at all?’ he asked.
‘About as much as when I was concerned about my hospital test results and you suggested I just let go of fear and doubt but gave me no reason for doing so’ answered Piglet rocking back and forth in an increasingly agitated fashion.
‘How about remembering a time when energy was affordable? said Pooh. ‘Memories are the proof that good times existed. We can bring them back just by thinking about them’.
‘No we can’t Pooh,’ said Piglet starting to cry, ‘No we can’t. And perhaps you’d be kind enough to go now. I’ve some bedclothes I need to hide under.’
#PoohAndPigletAndTheEconomicDownturn #Mindlessness #ItWillTakeMoreThanWishfulThinking #InNeedOfSomeGoodNews
To read of some good news click here
https://peteaird.org/2020/04/19/rest-assured/
here
https://peteaird.org/2022/07/17/cop8ng-with-disappointment/
or here
https://peteaird.org/2018/10/16/t-s-eliot-jesus-and-the-paradox-of-the-christian-life/
Other NHS and GP related tales:
To read ‘Mr McGregor’s Revenge – A Tale of Peter Rabbit’, click here
To read ‘A GP called Paddington’, click here
To read ‘Bagpuss and the NHS’, click here
To read ‘Mr Benn – the GP’, click here
To read ‘Jeepy Leepy and the NHS’, click here
To read ‘The Three Little GPs and the Big Bad Secretary of State for Health’, click here
To read ‘A Dream of an Antique Roadshow’, click here
To read ‘Dr Wordle and the Mystery Diagnosis’, click here
To read ‘The Happy Practice – A Cautionary Tale’, click here
To read ‘The Scrooge Chronicles’, click here
To read ‘Jeeves and the Hormone Deficiency’, click here
To read ‘General Practices are Go!’, click here
To read ‘A Mission Impossible’, click here
To read ‘A Grimm Tale’, click here
To read ‘The General Practitioner – Endangered’, click here
To read ‘The Repair Shop’, click here
To read ‘The State of Disrepair Shop’, click here
Other cricket, and especially Somerset cricket, related blogs:
To read ‘How Covid-19 stole the the cricket season’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Taunt’, click here
To read ‘Eve of the RLODC limericks’ click here
To read ‘It’s coming home…’, click here
A Jack Leach Trilogy:
To read ‘For when we can’t see why’, click here
To read ‘WWJD – What would Jack Do?’, click here
To read ‘On Playing a Blinder’, click here
To read ‘Coping with Disappointment’, click here
To read ‘Somerset CCC – Good for the soul’, click here
To read ‘Longing for the pavilion whilst enjoying a good innings’, click here
Some musings 
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