After the month plus of taking little bits of leave, this week felt like a return to the normal working, but with a vengeance! I began typing this email out in between cases from the on call on Sunday but we ended up finishing so late that I’m finishing this off on Monday instead! I […]
Well, it’s back to the usual grind in the week that’s just gone by. With one difference: I had a trip to look forward to! It’s amazing just how much the anticipation of travel is in making an an otherwise normal week feel exciting. It was my wife’s birthday I wanted to surprise her by […]
My extended family departed back just this morning and with that ends a period of non-work joys. Literally I’m typing this while on a break as we encounter a rare condition that prolongs muscle relaxants in anaesthesia (see Creative Update on the condition). The last few weeks have been about taking the extended family out […]
This week has been a return to my regular work schedule. After having bits of time off here and there to take guests around, I’m slowly running out of favours to call in. They also will have left by the time the next newsletter is out so I was pretty keen to show them as […]
This week’s email has been the most delayed in ages! I thought I was basically back to normal after being unwell 2 weeks ago but it seems like that’s not quite the case. I had a REALLY long 18 hr long day on Friday with even more airport drop offs that meant I left for […]
What a honeymoon it’s been! We discovered that we were both close social contacts recently and sometime around the writing of the last newsletter, went and tested via PCR and rapid antigen test and were…negative. Given that I started to get a very slight sore throat, I decided to stay in anyway. A few days […]
Well, what a week it has been! To say that the last 10ish days have been an exercise in organising chaos would be a total understatement. But before that, Eid Mubarak to those celebrating! This year, we raised $750 for those doing it tough on the streets. As you’ll see below, hopefully it has some […]
Melbourne is slowly moving through Autumn and getting cooler, which means the cats are very much enjoying sitting on my lap. The major thing this week has been the arrival of some of my family from New York. Since my brother is also visiting from London, it’s shaping up to be an Eid that’s much […]
Last week’s vacation was very much needed and I have to say the constant level of tiredness has disappeared! I didn’t even realise it was there until about 3-4 days of sleeping in and resting. Prior to the pandemic, I used to think I was being a bit spoilt in taking a week off every […]
Hello from Canberra! This edition of the Sunday Surprise is coming from Australia’s capital city (and no, it’s not Sydney). I had originally picked this week for holidays some time last year not realising it was going to fall on Ramadan. Since most of the time was already approved, I thought a greater than 2 […]