1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?
I have recently had to train a clinical specialist physiotherapist (big cheese, works with surgeons effectively as a registrar, does everything orthopaedic save the operations themselves) on how to work on a ward.
Due to this adeg, for a better word, loads of staff have been redeployed to work on wards to improve the flow of the system (acutely unwell - ward based recovery - rehab - discharge). This means our normal team of 4-6 (part time fluctuations) is now a team of 13.
It’s good fun as a challenge. Everyone has embraced it! But very strange speaking to people through face masks and visors. Normally only do that on ITU.
2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?
It was penblwydd Emma yesterday. So we had homemade pizzas, beer/gin and tonic, and a family quiz over the Internet.
Unfortunately I also took my mum to A&E because she broke her wrist. But on the bright side I saw my mum and dad and she was seen entirely by consultants and in and out in 2.5 hours. If only every week people used A&E properly 
3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?
When I was making the pizza dough on Thursday night. I had my wife’s cousin on facetime talking me through it. It was good fun and very messy!
4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… 'Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…'
All their money it was spent
So they started to canu
And it was uncanny
They sounded like Jim Broadbent
5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.
Jambalaya by Jamie Oliver 
This is a very strange feel good song because my Dad says he wants it at his funeral so always makes me dewy eyed but I love it:
I’ll be on my way by The Sawdoctors
The lyrics are amazing:
Well here it is, my time has come
Won’t be long I’ll be moving on
I can’t complain, I’ve had my day
Now I’ll be on my way
And all the good times that we’ve
Had
Much more good than bad
What more can I say?
Now I’ll be on my way
Don’t be sad now when I’m gone
Take your time while you’re still
Young
In the warm sunshine make hay
Now I’ll be on my way
Where I’m going, I don’t know
But I’m heading off in sun
Rain hail or snow
In the yard I hear the children play
Now I’ll be on my way
have no fear of what’s to come
My faith in better days is strong
Somewhere warm and safe to stay
Now I’ll be on my way
You might think you need my love
But I can’t give you half enough
You deserve the warmest purest
Rays
Now I’ll be on my way
Slan leat anois mo stor
There’s no need to see me to me door
We’ll meet again I hope and pray
Now I’ll be on my way
We’ll meet again I hope and pray
Now I’ll be on my way
And because it’s a holiday weekend…
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…
if you could live anywhere in Ireland where would you live?
Definitely Connemara - so much like North Wales in so many ways. Plus Galway is the county of the tribes and Gráinne Ni Mháille - the head of the tribe who met Elizabeth I as an equal and refused to bow to her when she met her in London. She didn’t recognise Elizabeth as the Queen of Ireland.
The two families have since conscientiously lived through our self-isolation periods but will re-impose them when anyone goes out. The bottom line is that normal cwtshing has resumed. 
There are no bunnies, but lots of fluffy Easter unicorns. Do they count?
Mwynhewch.
