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Day: May 20, 2015

Sheer callous laziness on the part of nurses who are too busy to deal with patients in agonising pain

Good morning, Mary Anne from the Philippines and Florence from Zimbabwe. If dying with dignity is a goal, then making it impossible for (night) nurses to access Facebook and the rest of the internet would make a huge difference in terms of willingness to go and cast a glance on the moribund, who to be…

The true story, never revealed, of the barrow organ

There’s more to this eggcorn than Somerset genius.

I couldn't find a photo of Little Pete.

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