by Anna Manning | 5 September 2022 | Blog
We don’t have enough doctors in the UK: we’re about 12,000 short of where we (apparently) should be. In 2019, 8,730 students graduated with a medical degree in the UK. There is a cap on the number as the training is subsidised by the government and also the students...
by Anna Manning | 14 August 2022 | Blog
In my previous blog post I described a caravan trip to Anglesey, Wales with my husband (Howard). Anglesey was very famous for its copper mining and we went to Copper Kingdom at Amlwch to look at the museum there, to see how copper is extracted and to see the remains...
by Anna Manning | 4 August 2022 | Blog
Last month the temperature in the UK rose above 40 degrees Celsius for the first time. Depending on where you live in the world this may not seem very high. But for many of us it caused a great deal of concern. We were worried about vulnerable people and there were...
by Anna Manning | 7 July 2022 | Blog
A couple of weeks ago I went to the BBC Good Food Show at Birmingham NEC with my husband, Howard. This was my first ever visit and I had no idea what to expect. One thing that I did expect (which didn’t happen) was that I’d buy a whole lot of food. To this end I took...
by Anna Manning | 21 June 2022 | Blog
In early June the United Kingdom spent four days celebrating seventy years of the Queen’s service. There were many events going on all over the country – street parties and general fun. In our village we had a party on the field with lots of stalls and some...
