Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 28th, 2008
Complete with blurry footage and soft lighting.
We’ve arrived safely and stepped foot once again onto British soil. I was a little miffed the immigration officer didn’t say something along the lines of “Welcome Home”, but still felt a sense of familiarity back on the throng of Heathrow. Fortunately my parents were on hand to provide [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 27th, 2008
Almost, at least. Props to the shaggy-haired rocker for this one.
I’m currently writing this in the lounge at Changi Airport, Singapore. It’s a quarter past one in the morning (local time) and we’re flagging fast. Of course, our presence here means the leg from Sydney to Singapore has been dealt with, arriving last night. We [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 25th, 2008
It’s less than 12 hours till we fly out on the first leg of our trip back to see friends and family, and check that the motherland is still there. The journey starts with a quick intercity hop to Sydney, before boarding the first leg to Singapore. We arrive there late tomorrow evening and have [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 22nd, 2008
With the Olympics at full pace, conversation has inevitably turned to sports, individual and national performance, and the current medal tally. At previous competitions Australia has routinely outscored the British team.
Earlier in the current Olympics my colleagues razzed me about their superior medal count despite the smaller population. However in recent days we have been [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 17th, 2008
Our prodigal trip is nearly on us and we’ve been busy preparing.
The cats have been booked into quarters at the Animal Welfare League for safe-keeping while we’re away. The organisation is a charity which supplements donations by charging for boarding animals. I hope they will be up to looking after snooty Milly, simple Tilly and [...]
Posted in BodyPump, Rick's Posts on Aug 13th, 2008
As you may remember Regan and I are currently members of Viva Fitness. The gym has many desirable attributes like offering the classes we like and a friendly attitude. However they also have a number of flaws that have changed from niggles to nuisances. The gym has invested heavily in personal training programmes, understandably, since [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 9th, 2008
Just a very short posting to say we’ve emailed out the provisional itinerary for our imminent trip back home. I think we’ve included everyone we want to catch up with and who might like to see us too. If we’ve left anyone off the list, or you would like it forwarded to anyone else, contact [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 5th, 2008
That’s right. I finally went out on a solo trip to retrieve a critical care patient back to Adelaide yesterday. Our destination was Waikerie, a small town in the Riverland about 200km northeast from Adelaide.
The patient was a middle-aged man who had collapsed for no obvious reason, so needed to be taken to a tertiary [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Aug 2nd, 2008
It’s official … all hope is gone. I thought in a world of increasing moral bankruptcy, doctors could still be relied on to maintain standards. Two recent experiences have ruined my delusion.
I keep change in my rucksack. Usually it’s just a small number of dollar and two-dollar coins amounting to little more than $10. This [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 29th, 2008
Not wanting to worry, I haven’t mentioned before that my job with the Statewide Retrieval Service next February was not confirmed. This wasn’t due to lack of support from the Medical Director, but because the service is still in transition and awaiting full deployment. Until recently funding was still tied up at the committee phase.
However [...]
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