Flaming June.
It’s been very warm this past month and there has been much to do in the garden. The roses, olive trees and agapanthuses have survived the winter’s storms and salt blasting and they are blooming.
The house, garden walls and gate have been painted so all is now ready for the visitors. Even the pizza oven has been spruced up.
And of the books? No more procrastination. The ISBNs have been ordered, the formats have almost been agreed, and the pictures are probably staying in.
You may remember the everyday story of organisational politics at St. Angela’s University Teaching Hospital. There were the usual gang warfares, double-dealing, dirty street fighting – all very Shakespearean. You can refresh your memory by clicking on the “Macbeth”, The Winter Storms and Introducing St. Angela’s “King Lear” Going Back, Older & Wiser and “Romeo and Juliet” Warring Factions and Naive Interns chapters.
These short stories will be brought together in a book over the summer. You might like to place your order for Christmas presents.
There is more.
Another book is in the pipeline. It’s the same biff-bang-bash politics of doctors, administrators, and nurses in a big teaching hospital but it’s set 100 years’ previously in the late Victorian period. The key player is in the picture:
Focus on the unassuming man standing on the far left. He is very important, as are these two:
What did they fall out over? What did they do that ended in the courts? Who “won”?
Old Lady by the Sea 