Aussie Update 5 – Crimbo day! So it is Christmas day morning here and still Christmas eve for all of you. How bizarre. Christmas in the sunshine, bar-b-q going, bikini wearing and sunbathing seemed so ideal, if not very Christmasy. However, we woke up this morning to pouring rain, absolutely chucking it down, lovely, oh and not particularly warm (possibly even less than 20 degrees, so practically freezing). So we spent the morning having a lie in with b...

Aussie Update 4 – Another one, are you impressed?! Ok so we had planned a weekend break to Sydney several weeks ago, I had even booked off the Saturday morning so that we could have a full weekend and persuaded the receptionists not to book me in anything past 4pm so that we could get away early and beat the traffic. Shockingly it all went to plan and at 3.30pm I managed to get away and off we went down to Sydney. We took a cross-country route down there wh...

Aussie Update 3 – Finally here (I'm not dead, I promise) So my diary has kinda fallen on its head for quite a while, well over a month to be honest... Basically work went absolutely nuts, one assistant vet ended up ill in hospital and another got badly kicked and so was also off, so my work load went through the roof at the height of the season. This all occurred just after Ali arrived, which wasn't much fun as I barely saw him as I was working trul...

Aussie Update 2 – Where Becky lands back on earth with a bump So I am now a week and a half into proper work, and it is going really well. What has brought me back down to earth is being on duty and I am back to being on a one in two rota (fun fun fun). Work wise my job entails going round the various studs picking up work such as dripping foals with plasma, x-raying foals, stomach tubing foals, treating anything and seeing emergiencies and stuff like ...

Aussie update 1 - where Becky tries to compete with the katies in the long e-mail stakes So I am finally getting round to e-mailing nearly two 2 weeks after getting here. It has been a bit of a whirlwind though, oh and I still don’t have somewhere permanent to live. Anyway, I will start from the beginning. The flight, following Bernard’s advice (yes, sometimes I do listen to him…) I bought some extremely sexy flight socks, black, supporting and...