Since spending a total of 4.5hours waiting in the waiting room of the ER in the last three days, I have had the great fortune to be exposed to all sorts of wonderful members of the Adelaide community with whom I might not otherwise have brushed elbows. Obviously these people were there owing to illness or injury or the illness or injury of a friend or relative and for those I do sympathise with them and would not wish them on anyone, but all the same, it made for...

1. Living opposite central markets & chinatown (and all the foody and cultural implications of this). I could not have wished for a better location to live.2. Work colleagues. At both my jobs. Of course there are always people you don't get on with, but alongside those and more than making up for them are some really fantastic people who I have had a brilliant time and a lot of fun working with and whom I will miss when I leave.3. The barge. Okay, so the guy ...

Further to my mention in my last blog of how frequently I have visited the doctor since being in Oz, in the last three weeks, I have been taking even greater advantage of the free Medicare system! This time my left foot was the focus of the medical attention. After my Xray and ultrasound showing nothing amiss in the inner workings of my painful footsie, I had a bone scan. I went into the royal adelaide hospital and was injected with a radioactive tracer into my a...

Ok ok, wot news from the South. The journal has been a little neglected, I am ashamed to say, mostly because once stuff starts getting a bit the samey, there is less to report! Also owing to the fact that I have really embraced my time in adelaide as a period of 'normal' living. I have not made many trips or done any touristy stuff beyond what I did in my first week or two. In a way that my time in Sydney and Airlie Beach did not, it really just feels like I am l...

Tuesday 5th January Life continues here in Adelaide, with beautiful weather and a succession of days that are mostly around 40 or 25C with many fewer in between. That is nice though, the hot days are exhausting and tiring but never number more than two or three, then the cooler ones are a very welcome relief before the heat hits once again. I have discovered the strange fact that when it is that hot, it is actually cooler in my room with the windows CLOSED! This...