Yarnivorous

G'day all! Well what a fun week it has been! I experienced the Australian emergency health system. More on that later. Nathan has a full time job offer - it was part time but something changed in the funding (I think someone left). One of our chooks flew over the fence and we haven't seen her for a day and nor have the neighbours. She is probably fox food now. We are sorta peeved but well given that their ex-owner highly disapproves of wing-clipping yet still gave us a chook that can fly about 5 metres high and well we are not sure how far but more than 15m in the air (ie an aerial acrobat in the chicken world)... We probably should've just clipped all their wings. We've run out of bandwidth on our cable plan so I've got no new photos to share - we are throttled to dial up speeds. So more on our health care system. As I whinged in my last post, chemo and/or the anti-nausea drugs can cause the other C, the one whose name is whispered about in jokes about prunes. ...

G'day all! Today I am a different one of the Seven Dwarfs. Today I am Grumpy. I think it is because the little car we've been lent has a terminal case of leaking water pump and the cost to repair it is somewhat more than I expected it to cost (over $500 vs the expected $100). $500 is a lot to fix a car but if it isn't fixed, it can't be driven more than about 25km in one hit and I was looking forward to driving up the hills and across to stuff on the other side of town. DH assures me some of it can by done by PT but that is tedious - eg 45 minutes into town on one train, 45 minutes out again and then a 2-3km walk to the plant nursery I'd like to visit. Then I'd have to lug plants back home again walking and PTing. (Some not very restful water to calm me down - the Pacific Ocean just south of San Francisco) So I've had a couple of requests to talk about Medicare in Australia. Our Medicare is nothing to do with the US version. I am going to call it Medi...