"Humbling Pie and eating it"

Hi, I’m A Catherine Wheel and I access adult mental health services via the Stonebridge Centre, City (East) Team, Nottingham

My post is about Humbling Pie and eating it, at the Stonebridge Centre

For some time I’ve been chuntering, moanin’ un groanin’ about the reception staff at the Stonebridge Centre and now I take it all back because I have made two visits recently and have been welcomed and looked after with the utmost cheer and helpfulness. So I’m overjoyed to now be eating humble pie despite failing to find the custard app on my laptop.

A whopping thank you to the staff on reception. You have supplied mugs so I could have some water - twice, spent a great deal of time procuring a prescription that had not been left with you for me to collect, and helped me with some pronunciation queries.  

If this is not enough on both occasions I buzzed the intercom to get in the Centre, and you kindly and encouragingly said to just open the door. This was further topped on both occasions with a welcoming reassuring smile and warm greeting. This had a very positive affect on me as on both occasions I was quite anxious. The latter time because I was seeing a psychiatrist I had never met before and felt worried and tense about this. You put me so much at ease that the consultation started well and progressed even better. I think you enabled the tone of that consultation to be set so that I could benefit a great deal from the appointment. Thank you so much.

I feel warm inside writing this post. It brings to mind those old school days in the Netherlands recalled in the song I can’t remember. That occasion….. 

I ate humble pie

When I was in Reception

I thought you’d never change

At the Stonebridge Centre

You have proved me wrong

Greeting me with a friendly look in your eyes

Made me realise 

Humble Pie’s just my dessert

You’re surely ace

Now I see us all in sweetness and light

I have to say

i was oh so wrong

And I’ve learnt something else now, that's right

I am just amazed

At your warm welcome

Makes me want to come

To the Stonebridge Centre

Who needs custard on pie

Now a bottomless jug of your love’s

Held out to me

By your care and kindness

At the Stonebridge Centre 

Thank you, thank you, thank you

And it’s down to you

You’re really great, thank you

It’s a dream come true

I so want to thank you, thank you

At the Stonebridge Centre

(Acknowledgements: In the style of: When I kissed the Teacher. Songwriters: Benny Goran Bror Andersson / Bjoern K Ulvaeus. When I kissed the Teacher lyrics, Union Songs Musikforlag AB. Universal/Union Songs Musikforlag AB) Accessed online: 8 May 2019.

Thanks to everyone in Reception, reckon it’s love all.

Re-seeing you

A Catherine Wheel 

In the Certain Ages, with nothing to lose and everything to gain