3 September 2010 by Rob.

  Last weekend we went to the Festival of Flight at the Watts Bridge Memorial airfield near Esk. It was a fly-in event were people can bring whatever interesting plane they have.  It ranged from a replica of a 1909 Beriot, to a 1934 deHaviland Dragon transport, a WW2 era P-51, private planes from the 50s & 60s, pre and post-war trainers, even a home-built jet.  I have pictures available on our website and a video on YouTube.  It was also just nice to get out of the city for a bit.  Esk is about an hour and a half drive.  Going there we took the shorter but slower route over Mount Glorious, but came back through Ipswitch.

   For all my Canadian readers, August 24th was the 196th anniversary of troops from Canada burning down the White House and much of Washington.  Hopefully that will teach the Americans, and they won’t try to invade again.

  Next weekend is the big fireworks display in Brisbane; Riverfire.  I am quite looking forward to it.  This is also supposed to be the last time the Australian Air Force’s F-111 do their famous dump and burn display.  It is supposed to be spectacular.

  At church I have been volunteering to video tape the sermons and edit them afterwards.  If anybody wants to see they are at the church’s website: www.windsorroad.com.au.

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17 August 2010 by Rob.

On Saturday we went out and got a new kitten.  She is a 8 week old orange tabby female named Rosie.  She is so cute it almost makes your head explode.  She is named after Rosalind Franklin, who was the  X-ray crystallographer who discovered that DNA was a double-helix.  (Yes we do tend to have odd cats names).  There are photos of Rosie over at the website.  She and Polly are getting along ‘ok’.  Polly does this weird thing where she runs up to Rosie, sits on her and sniffs her.  Must be a cat thing.

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18 July 2010 by Barb.

Rob and I have purchased a Christmas tree. We were actually driving to a fabric store (which would make your brain explode, it has soooo many different bits and baubles) (Second parenthesis: My husband OFFERED to take me to a fabric store. Proof positive he is nuts, or loves me, or both) and low an behold, we observed a large inflatable Santa on a low set building. This required investigation, as Christmas is a fairly big deal at our house. an hour later, we escaped with a seriously reduced price tree, and some lights and decorations. Now we need a tree topper. But I have 5 months to obsess over that.
And WAYYY to late, it was reported that I went to a conference in Mackay, QLD. This is actually true. It’s just taken me this long to get around to blogging about it. About a dozen UQ med students were funded to attend, and I was one of them. This was asuch an amazing opportunity, as my budget generally doesn’t allow for $1000 weekends. I had a chance to engage the Minister of Health (also the Deputy Premier) Paul Lucas, had coffee with the AMAQ president, created a press release with the RDAQ president and generally rubbed shoulders with the movers and shakers in QLD rural health. In addition, I had a chance to room with my good friend Rachel Norton, who is part of “The Sanity Crew” as we 6 or 7 students call ourselves. The sessions were on current issues in rural practice- emerging diseases, Indiginous health, maternity centres, etc. The entertainment was wonderful, and we even had an impromptu party in our suite with members of ALL the QLD med schools’ delegates (I took a picture of the contents of the fridge, but will not publish them as it was full of booze- even though I was not). All in all, a fantastic weekend. Many thanks to Dr. John Hall for sponsoring my place there.

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Oh, and via my friend Kiva-Marie: “Neuroanatomy on Monday morning is like tequila shots on an empty stomach. Seems like a good idea at the time. ‘What’s one shot of tequila?’/'What’s a little neuroanatomy?’ Lol. Fortunately, tequila goes quite well with salty & greasy food - and SO DOES NEUROANATOMY. It is amazing how much better something gets when combined with chips and aioli!” Just thought I would leave you with a small picture of where my life has devolved to.

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