Wednesday 26 May 2010

Some pictures of recent adventures






















My gourgeous boy dilly to finish :)

xx

Topshop makeup


I have heard alot if good things about topshop cosmetics. It has been on a lot of other bloggers lips cheek and nails. I went to a larger topshop store approx 20 miles from my home.

I scurried along to topshop as fast as my 28 inch legs and size 3 feet could take me to be faced with a stand which was no bigger than than a lunch box. I was disappointed so am going to resort to ordering the little goodies online.

A xx

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Tuesday 25 May 2010

Off On A Tangent

Our health is our most important aspect of our lives, but when you are a parent your child's health is much more important.

I want this post to allow people to understand the importance of the NHS (for those in foreign countries National Health Service) for the children within our nation. As you may already be aware the BBC are showing an 8 part programme on the Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS).

CATS are a service that run nation wide and allows the transportation for a critically ill child from a local hospital, to a larger hospital with a specialised Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). 

This is quotes from the NHS CATS website:

CATS stabilises and transports children needing intensive care from over 50 district general hospitals in the North Thames region and East Anglia to critical care units in London and the South East. In addition, we retrieve ECMO patients to Great Ormond Street Hospital from PICUs across the UK. As one of the largest services in Europe, we retrieve over 1200 critically ill children each year by road and air. The CATS Referral Hotline is staffed 24/7 by experienced administrators who ensure that every referral for intensive care is promptly routed to senior clinical staff on duty. Instant advice is provided by a CATS consultant, who can also teleconference appropriate specialists (e.g. cardiologists, neurosurgeons) to make a rapid decision about when to mobilise the retrieval team.





This is a fantastic service that the NHS runs and has saved thousands of children's lives. As a student nurse I got the opportunity to work in my local Intensive Care Unit where we were caring for a critically ill child. The child needed to be transferred to Kings College Hospital in London for critical specialist treatment. The South Thames Retrieval Service arrived at the hospital within a couple of hours, the practitioners on board were the highest specialised professionals, and the transported the child with ease and knowledge. 

Please please watch this programme, it really opens your eyes to the good the NHS does. Its quite refreshing to see good publicity for a service that has been in work for 60 years. 

This service allows hope for the parents of a critically ill child. 

I hope this has not bored anyone and I know it is not my usual topic of thought, but I thought I would tell you of a wonderful cause that gives a critically ill child a second chance, and this is something that is very close to my heart. 

xx

Sunday 16 May 2010

Long Time, No Post

It certainly has bee a while, I currently have a bit more time on my hands as I am working as a community nurse for the best part of 4 weeks. I am working in a charming little village and rural outskirts its really enchanting I shall have to take pictures and post them. 

I have been parting with my money while my blog has been left vacant, in reflection mainly nail products. 

No.7 Speed Dry Polish
in Violetta
OPI Thanks So Muchness

OPI Mod About You

I have be lusting after Thanks So Muchness and Mod About You for such a longtime.

I have a growing obsession for anything OPI, China Glaze and Mavala, I think this could be an expensive addiction.

Next is N07 Stay Perfect in Totally Teal, I am infatuated with anything from Navy Blue to Teal, But I have a sneaky feeling this will stain one's nails.

Yet another N07 Polish in the Anniversary Collection and the colour is 50's Bobby Socks
The assistant who works on the N07 counter where I live now knows me by name, she was the one who suggested for me to try this polish, I even got it a week before it was released so thanks!

Revlon's Tropical Temptation

I shant bore you girlies anymore, but gosh there are going to be some NOTD pictures coming up

Alice xx