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I have an app on my iPhone that tells me that we go on holidays in 38 days.  In the Northern Territory we get 4 weeks school holidays in the middle of the year, so this is when our family tries to go on a big trip. This year the plan is to go toContinue reading “Holidays are coming!”

Claire is having her first friend’s sleepover for a long time, maybe 2 years or more.  The girls had fun dancing to the Wii, playing various console games, making a campfire in the backyard, making soup over the fire, playing hide-and-seek, eating home-made pizza, and generally having a lot of fun. Now at 1:40 am they are having their showers andContinue reading “Sleepover”

For a long time, I have highly valued rational thinking.  At school I was strongly attracted to the rational disciplines – mathematics, science, chemistry, biology, physics and so on.  Conversely, I was repelled by the fuzziness and subjectivity of humanities and the arts, in which the same piece of work can get different (sometimes vastly different) marks fromContinue reading “Rational thinking”

To pass the time on night shift, I was having a discussion with a colleague about various things affecting the nursing profession.  We covered a lot of things, and one of them was leadership.  It is sometimes (or often?) said that nursing suffers from a lack of leadership.  What does that mean?  What is leadershipContinue reading “Leadership”

I don't know if this would work, or have consequences I haven't thought of, but I think all social security money should be via the Basics Card. I don’t mean pensions and the like, but income support type payments like unemployment benefits and student payments. As a socialist society, we have a responsibility to supportContinue reading “Basics card – some thoughts”

Today’s project was to improve the accessibility of our yard for Anita’s electric wheelchair.  A few weeks ago, I concreted a slab across under the gates to stop the dogs wriggling under the gates and getting onto the street.  This made it impossible for Anita to get out with her chair unless I was aroundContinue reading “A bit of concrete”

There have been times that I have wondered if it is better to buy a new 4WD rather than fix up the old one.  These times usually coincide with being covered with oil and grease, skinning my knuckles and swearing underneath the old one.  Fortunately, or not as the case may be, I usually feel OK aboutContinue reading “Old or new?”

When I went to collect our Bush Orders cartons, there were two extra cartons at the freight depot.  Yes, they were the new bikes.  No prizes for guessing what I spent the day doing – assembling, testing and setting up the two bikes.  Then I tormented Laura for a while by texting her at schoolContinue reading “The new bike has finally arrived complete with bike lock”

Since I’m currently working in a job that requires shift work, I’m doing mostly night shifts. This had a few disadvantages, as most people would immediately agree.  However, it also has some advantages: A little extra money.  Night shifts attract a little extra bonus pay compared to morning and afternoon shifts. Longer shifts means fewerContinue reading “Working at night – a good idea?”

Sometimes in the Emergency Department we get warning that a seriously unwell person is arriving, and this allows us to prepare the resuscittation room.  Other times, we get little or no warning.  Does this mean we’re not ready for the patient?  At first glance it would seem so, but in reality it doesn’t make anyContinue reading “Forewarned is fore-armed, or is it?”