"We had one or two bad results in December - we lost at home to Bromley and Salford," says Woods, whose middle name is Stanley after his grandad - not the team he currently plays for.

“At least until the middle of next week we’re going to be in that pattern.”

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Scotland said this week hosptials there were "gridlocked" and in the middle of their own winter crisis.

“I keep waking up in the middle of the night, thinking, ‘What am I doing?’” she says.

As I Googled a list of recommended items to pack, my husband was prepping our car in case we had to evacuate our toddler, a dog and two cats in the middle of the night.