Category: Humour

‘Hello; you’re through to the Middleton Hospital, good morning.’ If Sarah had said that once, she had said it ten thousand times. She had been the senior telephonist at the hospital for many years. It was a job she loved, and she prided herself on her efficiency. ‘Get me Davies, will you,’ instructed the caller. […]

Scene: A ‘Learn English’ class in London. Teacher: ‘Where would you go to post a letter?’ Carlos: ‘I go to post box in High Street.’ Teacher: ‘That’s right; you would go to the post box in the High Street. And where would you go to borrow a book? Carlos: ‘I go to library or see my […]

66 A French Piles ‘Frank, my piles are killing me. I need something to give me some relief. It was so stupid of me not to bring my ointment. I can’t think how I forgot. Would you drive into that town we came through on the way here and see if you can pick something up […]

Farmer George Braithwaite and his wife Gladys had been happily married for 50 years when, quite suddenly, Gladys died. George was heartbroken, but being a practical man, he went to the funeral directors to make the appropriate arrangements, then visited the offices of The Yorkshire Post regarding an obituary. When informed of the cost, George […]

Dr Andrew Jackson knew that the staff at the High Grove Medical Practice regarded him as being old fashioned but he didn’t care; in fact, the knowledge rather pleased him. He wasn’t afraid to stand out from the crowd. The truth was that he hadn’t taken kindly to the changes that his younger colleagues had […]

When Dr Richard Alexander went to work on that lovely spring morning in April 2010, he had no idea that he would come within an inch of an accusation of sexual harassment. When I say ‘an inch’, I mean a metaphorical inch, not the sort of an inch of which a blue comedian might speak […]

This story really isn’t a medical tale, but it’s quite short, it’s extremely topical and I couldn’t resist posting it for you to read. Essentially it amounts to a cry for help from a Junior Hospital Doctor called Harry who finds himself in a difficult situation. My hope is that someone reading this blog will […]