Épisodes

  • Bums and Benefits: My Colonoscopy via the NHS (National Health Service UK)
    Jul 28 2025

    In this episode, Paul shares a very personal tale from the far end of the body.

    At 73, he's no stranger to medical prodding—and in this frank, gently humorous account, he recalls his two NHS colonoscopies with curiosity, gratitude, and not a hint of embarrassment.

    With a nod to his father's experience with bowel cancer, Paul explains why this intimate procedure is worth facing head-on (or rather, bottom-up).

    Expect brown paper pants, some inner housekeeping, and a reminder of why the National Health Service remains one of Britain’s finest ideas.

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    4 min
  • We Are Never Fully Known; Do we know one another or even ourselves?
    Jul 21 2025

    The mystery we are to ourselves and others.1

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    7 min
  • Here's not looking at you: The Gen-Z stare
    Jul 18 2025

    The Gen-Z stare

    The cover art is an AI generated image

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    6 min
  • Bugs and me: Large insects and small
    Jul 18 2025

    My encounters with a few noteworthy bugs

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    4 min
  • George: My mentor and friend.
    Jul 17 2025

    This podcast is about someone very special to me, whom I met on my first day working at a Children's Home during my period as a Trainee Residential Social Worker in Hertfordshire in the mid 1970s.

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    8 min
  • First placement of my Social Work course
    Jul 16 2025

    My first placement on my Oxford Polytechnic social work course was in the Probation Department in Gloucester, where I was living at the time.

    This is a brief podcast concerning my placement supervisor and an offender pulling the wool over my eyes.

    In future podcasts, I aim to describe various experiences I had over a period of almost 40 years.

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    5 min
  • My journey to social work
    Jul 15 2025

    This is, hopefully, the first of an intermittent series on my life as a social worker.

    This episode is not as polished as I would have liked.

    There are parts of this podcast which I may expand upon in future podcasts.

    Thank you for your time and interest.

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    10 min
  • Simple pleasures: A puck, a tweet and silence
    Jul 13 2025

    The pleasures in life can be tiny things of no consequence.

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    4 min