Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 30th, 2008
Having been on holiday since the 24th August, it was with some reluctance that I went back to work today. It hardly takes any time at all to get into the holiday mindset and leave all employment concerns behind. As a result the intervening weeks have passed far too quickly. It came as a bit [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Sep 28th, 2008
Last night I had another shift with the Retrieval service. Saturday nights are characteristically busy, but I didn’t realise quite how much so. Shortly after starting the shift we received a call from Port Pirie, a costal town 225km north of Adelaide. Our customer was a middle-aged man who thought it would be a good [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 26th, 2008
<WARNING> This will be a gym-related posting, so if this doesn’t interest you feel free to look away now </WARNING> Having returned from holiday it’s time to undo all of the damage done by 4 weeks of overeating, excess alcohol and reduced activity. As you may remember, shortly before our UK pilgrimage I changed gyms [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Sep 25th, 2008
Apologies for the delay – this review would normally have appeared almost a month ago but we’ve been on holiday. Tonight was not the launch and the instructor was almost considering dropping it from his routine. Fortunately I got it just in time and so you get the review just in time for it to [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 24th, 2008
This, of course, means that we are back in Adelaide having traversed the Australian border with no difficulty despite my visa being a rather tatty printout rather than an official looking stamp. We are both significantly jetlagged, but we have a few days to get over it before returning to work. For some reason flying [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 23rd, 2008
Sorry, this posting won’t be quite on a par with the radio missive by Alastair Cook, but it might be vaguely informative and insightful. A couple of people we met up with over the past few weeks said they found some of my observation posts interesting. Perhaps not earth-shatteringly so, but at least a glimpse [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 22nd, 2008
My friends – of our holiday at least. Just a very quick not to say we’re currently in Singapore having endured 16 hours of air travel. This did consist of 2 legs but we barely got off the flight in Doha before it was time to board the plane again. As a result we are [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 20th, 2008
It’s now almost 24 hours till we have to leave England yet again and yesterday was our penultimate day but also one of the most memorable, hence the title. We woke early as the hire car had to dropped back, battled the abysmal Guildford rush hour traffic and then headed into London. There was time [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 18th, 2008
Our trip round the Midlands has come to an end today. For the past couple of days we have been staying with friends in Kettering after the 5 days in Leicester. It has been a nice way to round off the house-guest part of our holiday, and involved a couple of slobby days – just [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 16th, 2008
It’s almost a month since we left Australia and our stay in the UK is coming to a close. We’ve left Leicester now and are on the way back to Guildford via Kettering. We had a good time catching up with the many friends, some almost family, in Leicester. It is a testament to the [...]
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