Nadim the 4 year old poet has been on NPR in the US. In celebration, a personal favourite of mine from his oeuvre, and a poem no adult could have written: The Bumpity Bumpity Train.
I promise I followed every one
of the one-way arrows gaffataped
onto the pavements but none of them
led me to you. Linnet at the end of the lockdown. She's 17.
The patient diary kept by the nurses and physios who looked after me when I was in intensive care, is a window into part of my life that is unknown to me. It is full of care and kindness and helps me make sense of the bewildering changes I’ve been through. It’s a treasure.
"On one hand we got the [UC] raises, but I’m subject to the #BenefitCap. I can’t get off the benefit cap, because I can’t find a job, I can’t work with the children at the moment & I can’t move into cheaper accommodation because there isn’t any available." https://t.co/wbpQQoZS2R
From the moment I was spotted as having the virus to where I am so far must have pulled in the work and skills of over a hundred people working long hours. The NHS was and is a great leap of the human imagination designed to help us all. Forever grateful and believing in it.