Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 5th, 2010
I’m sure many of you will remember my many gripes last year about our lack of any social activities. Of course, exam preparation precluded much, but I also found myself working a silly amount of shifts at one point. A nasty combination which meant we had no holidays and missed out on a great many [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 28th, 2010
Credit to The King, but I’ll link instead to the surprisingly good JXL remix.
A lateral take on the title of our entertainment for last night. You have to give Adelaide credit for the cultural smorgasbord on offer. Many of the other state capitals look down their noses and liken this city to the equivalent of [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 16th, 2010
And now we can … literally.
When we lived in Leicester, it occasionally became hot. A really warm day might have just squeaked the mid thirties. On such days, and the inevitable muggy succeeding night, we sweated it out uncomfortably. But, typically of the Midlands, the heatwave never lasted that long and broken sleep was short-lived.
After [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 14th, 2010
A comedic great rather than a musical reference this time.
While Leicester had it’s fair share of violent crime and assaults, gunshot wounds were pretty rare. Similarly here in South Australia, despite slightly more relaxed ownership laws, we see relatively few shootings. So, while recently on nights for the Retrieval Service, it came as a surprise [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Feb 1st, 2010
As you will all remember, I’ve been thinking about ways to remain in Australia at my discretion, rather than being beholden to the immigration department every couple of years. So far, my plan has always been to gain specialist status and then use that to request permanent residency on the grounds of being indispensable.
But, having [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 24th, 2010
This is another go at Strine after my pitiful attempt last year, and probably closer to how most people would rattle off the name of the inaugural road race of the professional cycling calendar.
For once I actually had a weekend off, so after seeing Avatar last night – very good in 3D, see it if [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 21st, 2010
But a long journey still ahead.
After much procrastinating and deliberation, the AMC have finally accepted that I may actually be who I say I am. But this isn’t enough for the South Australian Medical Board, so the next stage is undeway. I received my provisional AMC certificate before Christmas, but can’t get full registration until [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 12th, 2010
Someone kindly pointed out the flagrant hypocrisy in posting about wanting meaningful action on climate change not long after posting about buying a car that emits 243g of CO2 per kilometre (just for context, that’s in the second highest UK tax band – L).
In so doing, they had a fair point, but I do try [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 11th, 2010
The recent Copenhagen conference and the Kyoto treaty before it have been little more effective than putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. It’s been clear for decades that the prospect of climate change is not just the scaremongering of a few paranoid scientists, yet little action has resulted. It doesn’t help that countries like [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jan 5th, 2010
Just a quick note:
We’ve both been back to work this week, and it’s been a bit of a shock to the system. Regan especially took almost 3 weeks off, and I had become rather used to being on leave. In fact it was rather relaxing to be able to get lots of little things done [...]
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