NURSES are being given a little TLC themselves at a Houghton Regis restaurant next week.
Hospital angels are quick to give ‘tender, loving care’ to patients on Christmas Day.
Now the Old Red Lion has decided that their selfless support deserves another type of TLC - a tender loving carvery!
The restaurant, in Bedford Road, is offering a free carvery meal to any over-18s working as nurses.
And the team is serving up the thoughtful deal from Monday, January 9 to Saturday, January 14, inclusive.
The Crown Carveries restaurant says research shows that more than 88,000 nurses worked on Christmas Day in 2010.
That adds up to 22 per cent of nurses in the UK missing out on time with family and friends on that special day.
Now Sarah Webster, the restaurant manager, has decided to reward these unsung heroes.
She said: “This is just a small festive gift from us to all our local nursing angels.”
Enjoying the free carvery couldn’t be easier.
Anyone currently working as a nurse just needs to check out www.crowncarveries.co.uk or www.facebook.com/crowncarveries from Monday, January 9, to download the ‘free carvery meal’ voucher.
The idea is that nurses show the staff the voucher, along with their current ID card.
Only one free carvery voucher per visit can be redeemed for each ID card.
A free tasty treat for nurses? Sounds like just what the doctor ordered...
DUNSTABLE had a name-check on the telly, I’m told, in the Christmas special of the BBC Two comedy series Rev.
I didn’t see it myself. But a fan tells me that the town popped up in a conversation between the Rev (Tom Hollander playing the Rev Adam Smallbone) and lay reader Nigel (Miles Jupp).
Talking about snow and travel troubles, Nigel turned to the Rev and said: “At least it’s stopped me playing Scrabble with my sister in Dunstable!”
I’m sure Nigel would have loved to drop in on Dunstable.
It’s just the Scrabble that he dreaded.
Maybe he should try the chocolate Scrabble that I got at Christmas.
It’s a great way to make you eat your words!
LOOKING for last-minute goodies on Christmas Eve, I found a little unexpected something in one Dunstable store.
Was it a diamond for 50p? Or my heart’s desire for a penny?
No. It was a MaltEaster Bunny choccie.
Reader, I was stunned.
Now friends have reported sightings of all sorts of egg-shaped chocolate treats on shop shelves.
Give us a break, shopkeepers. I haven’t recovered from Christmas yet.
Oh well. Happy Easter, everyone...
PS. The team at Barnardo’s South-East have just issued a list of wacky and wonderful items donated during one festive period.
My favourites? A suit of armour (I’d love to have seen that wrapped up) and an Aboriginal rain dance stick.
Ho hum. Never mind. For every unwise offering, there’s a grateful charity shop team waiting to recycle it into a tidy sum. Pass it on...