David Knight: Marvellous Aberdeen medics at RACH are to thank for returning my family’s festive spirit |
Let’s spare a thought for families whose loved ones end up in hospital casualty units for Christmas – mine included, after a right old festive ding-dong.
I was shouting merrily on high to my wife from our kitchen.
Telling her how delighted I was with our new cutlery.
Fancy French-made forks and knives, with lovely, elegant handles in mixed colours and sleek, shiny blades with very sharp serrated edges.
It hadn’t been easy to buy the knives online because security measures now seem to be kicking in after some shocking court cases.
Where young, underage lunatics had acquired blades with ridiculous ease online so they could murder people.
I was quite reassured that they had tightened things up and didn’t mind the checking process.
Even my friendly neighbourhood postie was obliged to act like a North Korean border guard to check my credentials before handing over the package, which was plastered with dire warnings about its potentially lethal contents.
But now I was in full swing in the kitchen with the knives.
And I was singing their praises as they sliced through the thick beef I was gripping – with such ease it was like butter.
So razor-sharp and efficient that I........