COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

As a student nurse I had little money for meals so I ate the awful food provided at the hospital canteen. I often took my break in the ward kitchen and sometimes kindly visitors would hand in treats they had brought for patients who had not wanted to eat them.

One night a woman brought a pie to the kitchen and said, ' Would you eat this up, love. '

The pie was absolutely delicious, full of meat with a light golden pastry; I ate it in next to no time.

Soon the woman returned and said,