Mahinda’s Little World

I’m currently sitting outside the Manchester St John Ambulance HQ, eating my lunch, in the glorious Fallowfield sunshine - you don’t hear that often!

I’m being trained in the ways of first aid, and it’s pretty interesting stuff. Having done some basic first aid at school, and had quite a few mates who did St John’s at uni, it’s pretty much as expected…and handily close to home!

The one thing I didn’t expect was just how male-dominated the course would be - it’s about 17 blokes to 5 girls. It does make sense, though - most of the course seems to be from the construction, engineering, steel industry, which of course is full of blokes.

This morning was largely paper-based, plus a bit of recovery position action. It was slightly awkward, manhandling a girl I’d never met before, but she’s nice enough.

Anyway, best get back. Will have to write more later, as per usual…