Please forgive me …
Posted on Thursday 24th July 2008
… if there are a few typos in this posting, but I have been struggling to defrost my fingers in the mornings and evenings after cycling too and from work. A couple of weeks ago I bemoaned the winter cold, but this was rather premature. For the past few days it has been in low single figures in the mornings and this has made cycling not very pleasant. I thought it got chilly in Leicester, but then our house in Owen Close was well insulated and my Audi had efficient German heating. Houses here are generally poorly insulated for comfort in summer at the expense of heat retention in winter. We’re feeling it at the moment but our current house in North Adelaide is far more energy conservative than the one in Croydon.
Tomorrow night we’re going out for the Mediflight Retrieval Service dinner. It will be a good opportunity to get to know colleagues better, and hopefully this will make working together easier. The director of the imminent Statewide Retrieval Service will also be at the dinner so I can canvass him to make sure my job for next February is confirmed as soon as possible. It is mine in principle, but we are still waiting for funding to come through.
While on the subject I have signed up for another shift on the 4th August, this time during the day as the first on-call. Hopefully I will actually get to do a mission and have something to show for it.
In the meantime I off to get my fingers properly defrosted.
I believe that the UK has the reverse problem.
Set up for winter…… but not for summer and air-conditioning is not that common. Where here, air-conditioning is a must and the really cold weather doesn’t last long.
Rick, think yourself lucky your not riding to work in Canberra….now that is seriously cold……ask Regan.