J And C Reunited In My Kitchen
I needed a few more mugs and just had to buy these when I saw them in Marks and Spencer.
J And C Reunited In My Kitchen
But I did have to buy them on-line, as they seem to be two of the rarer letters.
I’m reminded of a story from my past.
I was working for ICI at Runcorn and I’d designed and built an instrument to measure water in a particular chemical stream. It needed to be fitted and wired into the plant in their Rocksavage works. I was told to arrange the fitting with Charlie Akers, who was the senior electrician on the plant. I turned up one morning at the electrical workshop in the plant and Charlie gave me a tour, which showed me all the dangers and how to do basic things to avoid getting into trouble. To this day, when I’m climbing metal staircases and ladders, I still do it in the way that Charlie showed me, to avoid getting nasty chemicals or dirt on my hands.
Charlie then took me back to their workshop and then proceeded to pull a new white mug out of a box of about a couple of dozen and then with a small brush put my name on it. He then said that now, I’d had no excuse to not come here to have a cup of tea before going on the plant, as no-one wanted any accidents.
It was this attention to detail about Health and Safety that was the reason that Rocksavage Works had at the time, the best accident record in ICI.
A couple of years ago, when I went over SELCHP, one of the guides had noticed me climbing some metal stairs and asked if I’d ever worked in plants like that.
After all I’ve been through, Charlie’s lesson is still imprinted in my brain.
The Anonymous Widower 
J and C are both my initials…..
Comment by Janet | August 18, 2014 |
A good story that has served you well. When I was about 18 or 19, and training to be an Occupational Therapist, I did a couple of weeks of placement at Newsham General Hospital in Liverpool, on their Geriatric Unit as they were called then. The consultant, who name I completely forget now, was very interested in broken hips in elderly ladies, and its link to decalcification of bone. 40 years ago, this was new stuff – it did have a name, Osteoporosis – and this doc was looking at X-rays and other data, and coming to the conclusion that for most ladies it was a preventable problem if prevention started early. A generous calcium intake each day was deemed by him to be vital to bone health in later life, and he made a point of making sure that all the young women knew this. I later learnt that weight bearing exercise is also important.
All my life I have made sure I drink at least a pint of milk each day, and once I learnt about the weight bearing exercise I made sure I did some of that too – plus as a large lady, most things are weight bearing for me – osteoporosis is a skinny ladies disease. As you know, I am also coeliac, thus high risk of osteoporosis in later life.
When I had my Dexa scan the lady was amazed, I am in my 50s and have the bones of an active 30 year old. Which I put down to the influence of that consultant in my late teens. I have always been aware of bone care.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | August 18, 2014 |