Are you principled ? My wife is.

How did your day start today ? My first email was from my lovely muse Kate, who wrote " Pull your finger out and get blogging. Lily will be in school by the time you do the next entry if you had your way. Hopeless. ". I am not sure why this makes me laugh, but it always does. Kate also addresses any postal mail to me to the following name ' F. Off McKendry '. Again, I do not know why, but it makes me laugh for about 5 minutes, and then again any other time I think of it during the day. I am actually smiling as I write this - truly.

Todays blog subject comes courtesy of the lovely wife. When she was at work the other day she bumped into her ex-boss ( yes, the same one who made her redundant about a week after she told him she was pregnant, and broke the news to her by phone at home on the Saturday morning we were flying off to Italy and France for a 2 week holiday ). Unfortunately when she bumped into him it was not literally, and she was not carrying an unsheathed knife. But I digress. While chatting with him through grated teeth, she was informed that he had just got back from a conference in Australia. While she was cursing her luck that all the dingoes, taipan's, funnel webs and great whites had decided to eat other tourists instead, he mentioned that the 'McKendry's Principle' is going down a storm. He went further to explain that these hospitals had picked up on Moira's research, which had been published in the British Medical Journal, and had implemented her methods into their treatment of some patients. He then told her she was redundant again. She advised him that she no longer worked for him, and this was a habit that he really must give up.

Moira can also balance a spoon on her nose, and perform magic tricks such as making 2 bottles of wine disappear over an evening.

Is there no end to her talents ?

If you are interested her research paper can be viewed at:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7460/0-d