Old Titch Marsh is in Hull doing a garden for a Macmillan nurse, its on now. Do a cracking job those nurses. Geddit done Titch
Ye it is Ryde Kemps. I've posted another HDM link of a nirse who worked 56 years a s a nurse. That lady lives on Longhill and this woman in a not posh part of Hull. I think it shows how many bloody good people there are all over our fair City. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...rs-job-isn-t/story-27478985-detail/story.html http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Alan...ggie-Simkiss/story-27493670-detail/story.html She has reached out from the agony of her own grief to help the sick, the dying and those left behind. Now, the selfless dedication of nurse Maggie Simkiss is to be recognised on national TV. Mrs Simkiss features on tonight's Love Your Garden programme with Alan Titchmarsh, when his crew turned up at her home to transform her garden. "It was very humbling," said Mrs Simkiss. "I'd watched these programmes before and then it happened to me. For once in my life, I was lost for words." Mrs Simkiss, who was given the Henry Garnett Award by Macmillan Cancer Support last year for her exceptional care of patients, has been a nurse for 41 years and is a specialist palliative care nurse at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham. When her baby boy Kieran died in 1992 at just nine days old, she also established the Hull branch of stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands to help families through the trauma of stillbirth and the death of their babies. Researchers picked Mrs Simkiss after learning of the thousands of hours she has dedicated to raise funds for Macmillan and to run memorial services at the Queen's Centre for Oncology and Haematology. She was attending a meeting at Castle Hill in March when the film crew appeared. Mrs Simkiss said: "We had been called to a meeting and I just thought it was about education and palliative care. "All of a sudden, the doors opened and in walked Alan Titchmarsh. I just couldn't believe it." Mrs Simkiss, who has two sons Matthew, 33, and Stuart, 32, four grandchildren and another due next week, took the crew back to her home in Ryde Street, off Beverley Road, for filming and prepared for the transformation in June. She said: "I used to be a gardener, but when the grandchildren came, I put it on the back burner because I wanted to spend time with them. They are so precious to me. "My garden was really unkempt by the time of the transformation." In three days, the gardening crew created a haven for Mrs Simkiss and her husband Kevin and a place for her grandchildren to play. They also created a vegetable plot and Mrs Simkiss will be rustling up a tart using home-grown courgettes tonight when her children and grandchildren gather to watch the show. "It was such a surprise," she said. "I never expected anything like this, but what a wonderful way to be recognised."
My Mac nurse who I have had these last 7 years is a living Angel. He has been a ****ing star and a rock for me. Won't bore you with the details but with out him I would have snuffed it . When I was really bad he use to pop to my place every 2 hours in the night though he didn't get paid to do that.. Mac Nurses are worth there weight in gold. I could never thank him enough . I forgive him for being a Burnley Fan.
Theres a lad from Hull on Great Ormond St on Beeb 2 now, suffers with Epilepsy. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Grea...-Jack-Copley/story-27487580-detail/story.html
Are allotments still popular in Hull & district ? Seemed to be thousands when I was a kid...along with pigeon coops of course. Would imagine they're pretty much a thing of the past by now. Sad if so. I remember seeing a rather large allotment plot next to NFU's ground when I went to watch a pre-season game against City a few years back - is it still in use ?
The team did a great job, but the price of the gear they put in, over £3k for the shed, £55 per sq m for pavers, £70 per sq m for those fancy wall tiles, over a hundred each for those big pots etc. if you got a firm in to do that garden it would have probably cost over £30k.
Allotments are still hugely popular in Hull TC. There's something like a two year waiting list. I've got one in the avenues, had it for ten years now, they're protected, so the council can't use the land for anything else. Don't tell Assem though, he'll have me off in a flash.
It's not just Hull. I live down south and in many places you can't get allotments for love nor money and they're taken by all sorts of different folk. Asian families use them to grow stuff they then sell in local Asian shops, old-timers who've always had them, young families growing their own because its cheaper/greener/healthier etc, middle class folk because it's trendy.
If anybody knows how to harvest St Johns Wort let me know, got a good crop of it in my garden and apparently its a very good anti-depressant, will probably need some in a few weeks when the football gets going
I know....he actually took me to city 1 Burnley 4 And sat in E3 with his burnley shirt on under his jacket. He took me to a number of games on saturdays his day off , when I first got in remission .. I hadn't been out for over 2 years. Got me back on my feet And with Charlie 1s help I got back to going to away games....she's a star as well to me. I go to loads of away games now Charlie. Brilliant .
