About to go!
It's the morning of our departure and Dundee is not living up to its reputation as Scotland's sunniest city. In fact, it's chucking it down with rain. Which made cleaning out the car even more pleasant a task than it would normally have been.
We had the grandparents and Auntie Alison, and even a shock visit from my brother Kenneth, last night. We are about to go to Grandpa's again though, as there are still remove essential items in there, e.g. a coat, Haematology book in language I can understand.
Mum and Dad are coming to Edinburgh airport with us to say goodbye. We're meeting up with my sister Kirsty for lunch which should be nice.
The Australian Foreign Office have caused our itinerary to change somewhat, after issuing a statement that there was a high threat of terrorist attacks on Bali, so after multiple phonecalls, we've managed to bypass that, and will be in Singapore for 4 nights and then Sydney for 3. Everyone who has been to Singapore says it's great and there seems to be loads to do there. Sydney should be cool as well, although I've been reading some rather disturbing reports about vicious and innately defensive Sydney funnel-web spiders. Apparently, they are really aggressive, and build their nests at head height, and jump out and you and bite your face. I wondered if this was just Dave having a laugh, but there are various pictures on the web (haha) of black and chunky spiders rearing up to expose some pretty nasty looking fangs. Accordingly, we are staying in the centre of Sydney, as they're supposed to live in suburbia. Although I don't let Ian kill anything in the UK, he's been granted permission to do so with any spiders he might see.
We have managed to get the suitcases down to 22kg each, which is only 2kg over. Actually, Ian has to be the one to take credit for this. How will I survive without my multi-coloured wardrobe? I have taken the sad decision to leave my pink stethoscope behind, and opted for the sensible black Cardiology stethoscope.
The Australian periods of employment are different to ours, and so we will arrive when they have 2 weeks left. I will be starting off in a big Geriatric Department for 2 weeks, doing General Duties, i.e. they don't have a vacant post for the first 2 weeks, so that should ease me in gently. I'll be doing 3 months of Haematology after that, and they still have to work out the rest of the rota. We don't know exactly what Ian will be doing yet.
Oh well, Dad ought to be home from the hospital soon, and then we can get a lift to Grandpa's. Although, Dad does seem to exist in his own little version of time, once he's inside that hospital. We have quite a lot of Tesco vouchers which expire before we return, and so Mum and I are going to Tesco to purchase her favourite wine so she can drown her sorrows.
Dad's arrived home, and his OCD is taking over with the need to have everything precisely on schedule, so we'll leave you here and see you in Singapore (which is apparently in the grip of a Typhoon)! Wish I'd taken the Ward 8 nurses up on their offer of Temazepam.....
We had the grandparents and Auntie Alison, and even a shock visit from my brother Kenneth, last night. We are about to go to Grandpa's again though, as there are still remove essential items in there, e.g. a coat, Haematology book in language I can understand.
Mum and Dad are coming to Edinburgh airport with us to say goodbye. We're meeting up with my sister Kirsty for lunch which should be nice.
The Australian Foreign Office have caused our itinerary to change somewhat, after issuing a statement that there was a high threat of terrorist attacks on Bali, so after multiple phonecalls, we've managed to bypass that, and will be in Singapore for 4 nights and then Sydney for 3. Everyone who has been to Singapore says it's great and there seems to be loads to do there. Sydney should be cool as well, although I've been reading some rather disturbing reports about vicious and innately defensive Sydney funnel-web spiders. Apparently, they are really aggressive, and build their nests at head height, and jump out and you and bite your face. I wondered if this was just Dave having a laugh, but there are various pictures on the web (haha) of black and chunky spiders rearing up to expose some pretty nasty looking fangs. Accordingly, we are staying in the centre of Sydney, as they're supposed to live in suburbia. Although I don't let Ian kill anything in the UK, he's been granted permission to do so with any spiders he might see.
We have managed to get the suitcases down to 22kg each, which is only 2kg over. Actually, Ian has to be the one to take credit for this. How will I survive without my multi-coloured wardrobe? I have taken the sad decision to leave my pink stethoscope behind, and opted for the sensible black Cardiology stethoscope.
The Australian periods of employment are different to ours, and so we will arrive when they have 2 weeks left. I will be starting off in a big Geriatric Department for 2 weeks, doing General Duties, i.e. they don't have a vacant post for the first 2 weeks, so that should ease me in gently. I'll be doing 3 months of Haematology after that, and they still have to work out the rest of the rota. We don't know exactly what Ian will be doing yet.
Oh well, Dad ought to be home from the hospital soon, and then we can get a lift to Grandpa's. Although, Dad does seem to exist in his own little version of time, once he's inside that hospital. We have quite a lot of Tesco vouchers which expire before we return, and so Mum and I are going to Tesco to purchase her favourite wine so she can drown her sorrows.
Dad's arrived home, and his OCD is taking over with the need to have everything precisely on schedule, so we'll leave you here and see you in Singapore (which is apparently in the grip of a Typhoon)! Wish I'd taken the Ward 8 nurses up on their offer of Temazepam.....
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