MancWanderer

Yeah not much in it but I’d say Traf is a better keeper. Prem quality. Baxter is good and as you say ours. More than happy to have Baxter

Brilliant. Remember that game weirdly for the Chelsea red shirts and green socks. Had forgotten the first goal was an og Great to see Burnden without fences and segregation On the Burnden Paddock that day. The trouble was a year later and I was on the Manny Road side

A bit like this place then?

I’ve not read enough of the case to properly determine exactly where she was working. She was neonatal. But was she neonatal ward or neonatal ICU? And at what point was she interacting with the babies? Was it at the point of transfer between the two? Or was it transfer from NICU to PICU? I’ve probably answered my own question that I need to read up a bit more. @gonzohas sent me down a rabbit hole because my curiosity has been piqued.

Tbh I wasn’t “hands on” as such. I was there along with the folk who worked for me training the nurses on immunisations for the pre-terms. Sadly the training was actually “live” within the units and obviously I saw what would be happening at the time. Nurses who the had to handle the issues on the units were incredible. Fuck me. Taught me a lot. The experiences do make me wonder about the Letby numbers though. NICU is fucking brutal. Rationalising. Not saying she is guilty or not. Just looking from a certain angle

I spent 7 years working with the neonatal and paediatric ICUs around the North of England and Scotland. There’s quite a difference between the two. Or at least there was in the 2000s. Neonatal ICUs are heartbreaking places. These tend to be very premature babies that are clinging on by a thread or new borns with a serious problem. Youngest ended up at St Mary’s after an op the day she was born. That place was grimmer than anything I’ve ever seen. She came through. Most on that unit didn't Paediatric ICUs are (or maybe were) a bit better. Still bad when looking at newborns but it’s ones like my eldest who decided to swallow her own shit (meconium) whilst being born that end up there. Most seemed to survive but needed intensive care If Letby was in a NICU then mortality rates would be high and 25 a year wouldn’t surprise me at all. A PICU would be surprising imo as it would also include “older” children who’s mortality is a lot lower Not sure if the unit she was on was NICU or PICU? I’ll defer to @kent_white for correction if I’m talking shite

Three good goals but that was poor

Good goal then sleeping in defence.

Blimey!!

Picked the defenders pocket there. Good on him

Can’t make my mind up about IE After that display on Saturday I was firmly in the “get rid” camp If i had to vote, the credit in the bank says give him 5-10 games. However, we couldn’t beat Wrexham who, if being honest, were nothing special. We’ve got Huddersfield and Reading. Neither special but more points on the board than us. What then happens if either or both of them do a job on us? Do we then give him another 3-8 games? fwiw I reckon he’s going nowhere before Xmas. Really hope he pulls it off. I like him. But I’m not confident at all

@Dimron you did ask….

The brilliantly named Horatio Nelson Houghton. Can’t quite remember how he’s related to my family but my mum has photos of him. Think he was from Bury Was sent to S Africa I’m guessing in the build up to the first Boer War. Pictured in Durban. Died in Natal 1878

My dad’s dad on HMS Constance in WW1. Back row second from the right

Durham Light Infantry 1917 Another uncle of my mum is last on the right back row. Sadly didn’t make it back home