Posted in Rants on Jan 30th, 2008
Look away now if you don’t want to hear another one of my rants, but I need to vent spleen.
As you will already know we are shortly due to move out of Brown Street and relocate to North Adelaide. The letting agents are now in the full throes of getting us out. Rather than being [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 28th, 2008
Some of you may remember this posting exactly one year ago:
This is just going to be a quickie to say I’ve arrived in Melbourne
Today is special, as it marks the first anniversary of my arrival in Australia. I arrived with much apprehension about whether I would fit in, make friends and stay in employment. A [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 26th, 2008
It’s almost a year since the launch of Microsoft’s latest operating system and all is not well.
A major flaw has been identified in the way Vista handles file transfers especially across networks. The internet, and tech forums in particular, have been buzzing with a chorus of disgruntled users. It would seem that in trying [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 22nd, 2008
Not quite on a par with Dickens’s treatise but I’ll have a go anyway.
Since coming here I’ve noticed a strange dichotomy in Australia. There are two personalities to the country.
On the one hand you have a nation so at ease with itself that a state premier can attend Parliament in pink shorts; a nation that [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 18th, 2008
We can breathe again as I won’t be chucked out of Australia in the near future. My visa application has been successful:
So all I’m waiting for now is acceptance from the Australian Medical Council and I’m all set. So once again, coming here seems to be the right choice. It seems I’m not the only [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 14th, 2008
We can now relax again. Our search for a new home has been successful and we have found somewhere to live this year. As desired it is in North Adelaide, but rather than being in the heart of the suburb we are in a quieter area. While this means a longer walk to the shops [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 11th, 2008
Will Smith had it easy by comparison.
I’m talking about our search for a new home. Our current one has been fine for the year, but is of poor design. In a water-poor state it has no rainwater collection system. More importantly it is poorly energy inefficient and our electricity bill has almost doubled this summer [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 6th, 2008
The reference is here for those who care.
Summer is officially here and it’s getting hot. It’s been over 40 degrees a couple of times now and due to get hotter. Global warming definitely feels like it has kicked in as we have had almost 2 weeks of continuous sunny days and there is no sign [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Jan 2nd, 2008
Now the new year is in and Christmas is over inevitably thoughts turn to losing those pounds gained over the holiday season - just as adverts on television change from the pre-Xmas ones encouraging food and excess to the post-new year ones promoting the latest diet plans and exercise machines.
It’s also time to consider the [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 1st, 2008
Greetings and best wishes to all for 2008!
This is an opportunity to reflect on what happened last year. As with the previous one I’m not going to delve into world news and politics even though some tragic events occurred, as these are covered elsewhere in far better detail. Instead here’s a more personalised Round-Up - [...]
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