One Fine Day, that’s all we’ve had this month in what has been a very stormy and soggy end to the winter. The sea has been especially energised even on a calm day so it’s been too dangerous to enter, especially given the many jagged rocks that lie just below the surface. And storm clouds seem to bubble up so quickly just to remind you of the power of nature and who is in charge.

Everyone is so looking forward to the Spring which officially starts tomorrow. As a portent, we have had daffodils since last November, but they are still going despite the drenching weather. Lots of varieties giving pops of butter yellow everywhere.

Work on my new book about medical politics and fraud has been progressing in fits and starts because we’ve been working on getting Louisa’s Lament into the Library System. We’ve been listed so far in the Bury, Bromley, Cambridge, Coventry, Cwmbran, Glossop, Harrow, Merton and Surrey libraries. Every loan generates a Public Lending Right fee and it all mounts up for the charitable contributions pot. We’re going to try to get into the American System next.

And that short article by a VIP is now published in Guy’s Hospital Gazette to mark its 300^th anniversary. Jump into patoakleypublishing.london to read it. As a result, some much needed light has been shone on our pioneering women – Miss Burt and her acolytes, Miss Ingle, Miss Lonsdale and Miss Jones. Heroes at last.

Enjoy the alignment of the planets in the night sky tonight and have a happy St. David’s Day tomorrow. Next month, more on the new book and its band of sociopaths wreaking havoc in other people’s lives.