Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 30th, 2008
Yesterday after having a meal at one of the resturants in town we walked along North Terrace to see the Northern Lights Exhibition. This is part of the Adelaide Arts Festival. In an original artistic approach, many of the older city buildings were used as a canvas for a visual display. The following photos will [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 30th, 2008
Last Friday we completed the most important part of my introduction to scuba diving. Once the weather broke we went to Noarlunga and, after hiring equipment, went down to the jetty to get in the water. I didn’t realise how much effort just goes into the preparation, but it took longer to get ready than [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 26th, 2008
Life is about trying new experiences and activites and today was a first for me. As I mentioned earlier, we had organised a scuba diving session. My sister is a qualified dive master and was keen to have a dive in the clear waters off the coast of Australia. As I had never tried diving [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 24th, 2008
After 15 months of separation my parents and sister have finally arrived in Australia. Fortunately they had a stress-free flight and, albeit a little jetlagged, seem none the worse for their trip. It is nice to be reunited with my family after being distanced so far from them. As you can see they are still [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 21st, 2008
I’ve not had a chance to post much on here lately as our workload at the hospital has been higher than normal. It might be the run-up to the Easter weekend, but unexpectedly our admission rate and severity of illness has been above normal. Last night I was the acting on-call consultant and became embroiled [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 17th, 2008
Unsurprisingly another Simpsons reference.
Now we’ve been here for a while and intend being here longer, I’m looking into ways to make staying easier. Currently I’m only provisionally registered with the local Health Board, not registered at all with the Australian Medical Council and having to renew my visa yearly.
Fortunately the AMC have seen sense and [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Mar 14th, 2008
You will remember that I recently complained about the unseasonal heatwave striking Adelaide. The average temp for this month so far is 37 degrees.
Despite the heat, the need for exercise mustn’t stop, but I’m struggling badly to keep up my usual form. Even with the aircon running the exercise studio at our gym has regularly [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 12th, 2008
Our links to Brown Street are almost severed. In the next couple of weeks I should receive our deposit back, which will finally absolve us of all ties to the old house. Fortunately South Australia has an unusually sensible setup for tenancy agreements. Rather than the landlord holding the deposit bond, it is lodged with [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 10th, 2008
Today the following appeared on the BBC News website …
… while the AdelaideNow website ran with:
At times like this I’m sure practically every one living in Adelaide would gladly swap, at least temporarily, with people in England - and vice versa. There is a principle that too much of something becomes tiresome, and after 7 [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 7th, 2008
Last week I was asked to take on one of the Senior Registrar posts. They managed to ask in such a way as not to actually give a choice, so it has become au fait d’accompli.
It is flattering that they considered me amongst my colleagues, but I suspect it was a case that they needed [...]
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