Nick Howe

Loved my working career, now time to enjoy many other interests & hobbies with family & friends including being a Trustee of Eye Nepal charity.

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Class act 👏👏

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

I’ll just keep knocking on that 🚪 See you next year Augusta!

Congratulations @McIlroyRory going back-to-back

Thank you for all the support #Team🌹

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Great life skills (pls join us one day perhaps) 😁

[Bede's Senior School @bedesnews]

The heat was ON in the Bede’s kitchen the past few weeks! 🔥‍🍳

We hosted two qualifying heats for Star Chef, putting our pupils’ culinary creativity to the test.

Congratulations to our four Houses heading to the Grand Final on February 27: Stud, Dorms, Knights and Charleston

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

@mufcMPB @JBurtTelegraph This ship has sailed, a great talent and wasted by poor previous regimes sadly, but it’s time for a new era and new momentum!

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Merry Christmas Guy 🥂

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Nailed it Guy 👏👏🎄

[Guy Emmett @GuyEmmett]

How was your Christmas lunch Prep School? Fairly quiet Daddy. 😄 🤣

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

👏👏someone’s been busy 👍

[Guy Emmett @GuyEmmett]

The first group picture for Lodge House of the year on Monday. @jwoolley97

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Yep good luck but they won’t find them in that stream 🤣

[Helen Emmett @HelenEmmett21]

Good luck to our Year 11s today who are collecting their GCSE results @ScarColl 🙌🏻 #gcse #resultsday #geography

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Pls return!!

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

A magical moment for me and my family to come back to Old Trafford - my home

From the bottom of my heart - I want to say thank you for the reception - for all the love you shown me today

To the supporters that never stopped being with me throughout my time at this club

Our paths may cross again but for today..

We've seen it all 🔴🟣

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Blinkered and arrogant, total abdication of responsibility!

[The Spectator @spectator]

Phillipson visits zero private schools in 11 months

✍️ Steerpike

https://t.co/YoqGKx0a0S

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Ask him if he’s been busy Mike? 😁

[Mike Jones @MikeJones_IV]

Not a great photo…but my first sighting of a driverless taxi. Passenger’s first ever ride in one too. Wow. #Atlanta

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Enjoy Mike - not withstanding between 8&10.30pm tonight!! Spain is red, maybe!!

[Mike Jones @MikeJones_IV]

#COYS

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

‘New Old Trafford’ - history & future united!

[mufcmpb @mufcMPB]

Reply with what you think the new stadium should be named👇

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Nice one Jimbo , merry Christmas

[James Rudman @jamesrudman41]

Christmas drinks at dad’s, he loves when his grandchildren turn up out of the blue. #Christmas2024

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Fantastic guys, what a show 👏👏 merry Christmas

[Ben Cook @chefbenji64]

Unreal polar express extravaganza at Queen Mary's School. It was a pleasure working with Gary and the team superb work guys & Girls @QueenMarysSch @QueenMarysHH @HolroydHowe @OliCullers @Lukerasmith @DamianBlake4 @Nickhowe64

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Great combo!!

[Nani @luisnani]

Delicious breakfast - this time in Portugal - with the great and special company of Sir Alex Ferguson. Amazing time, great memories. See you again soon, Boss 😃

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

An amazing new addition to the school !

[Michael Bond @Brentwood_HM]

All set for the Academic Asia Hong Kong Expo - excited to share the news of our 120 single en-suite bedroom boarding development @Brentwood_Sch - Happy Saturday all!

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Looking good guys!!

[Mike Jones @MikeJones_IV]

Having #DaBears playing a home game at @SpursOfficial is just bloody awesome. Bears fans everywhere. Bear Down

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Still got it Jimbo!!

[James Rudman @jamesrudman41]

Gaudy.

Pork belly. Duck with cherries . White chocolate tart with blueberries. #Oxford #dinner #college

[Nick Howe @Nickhowe64]

Could they replace the Cabinet perhaps? 😁

[Douglas Robb @Greshamshead]

A superb supper with the @Greshams_School Queens’ House L6th. An engaging and jolly bunch. #spacetodinewell