Especially when, just a few years later, you'll find it all going for a song at Hilditch! How to I claim my refund?
And, before anyone gets hold of the wrong idea, and starts "going off at a tangent", I write as someone who has, on many occasions, offered to repair equipment for next to nothing, but have always been turned down. So that's
my charitable gesture, right there (and a bit more meaningful than just tossing a few coins into a bucket, I would have thought).
Nice links, Robert, by the way (
ie, the usual "emotional blackmail"). I also have great respect for the decent people you meet in the League of Friends at various hospitals. In fact, I'm considering approaching them with regard to working under their wing as a biomed a couple of days a week (no, I'm not joking ... and if anyone can help me there, I'd be much obliged).
