The withered new leaf...

So much for keeping my blog up to date!! My excuse... Facebook! An electronic nosey-parker's dream or a great way to keep in contact with people all over the world? Am loving the chance to see what people are up to - and nose through photo albums of happy times :) Unfortunately absorbs hours of time..

And I've changed jobs again since my last post. Stability? nah, boring..

Silence

Well... I'm evidently not very good at blogging! What has happened since my last entry many moons ago...I've changed jobs, changed cities, been on holiday, celebrated Christmas, drunk gallons of coffee, consumed kilos of chocolate biscuits... Nothing out of the ordinary! Christmas was great - all home together for the first time in a long time. Wandering brother has returned, looking to go overseas again as soon as possible. Other brother has a sporty car and a worrying enthusiasm for exercise. Sister is beautiful and continues to thrive in school and at church, only occasionally revealing to me the rebellious, angst ridden teenager that parents assure me is also thriving. Parents are busy with work and parenting. They've just been to a concert, tickets for which I gave them for Christmas - perhaps being polite about their enjoyment of Latin American Baroque choral music? No, I think they did actually enjoy it! Though I will never live down the Armenian music episode...

Time for sleep, but I will turn over a new leaf in blog posting!

Hooray for long weekends!

I have just had a fantastically chilled out weekend. An unexpected day off last friday (the day after payday) meant a chance to catch up with shopping, under the guise of needing to go into town to go to the bank.. I'm now sporting some lovely new shoes :) It has been extremely wet here, and most of the rest of the weekend was spent curled up in pyjamas reading/drinking hot chocolate/catching up with long-lost housemate. Different shift patterns mean that even though we live in the same house we never see each other, rubbish! I can report that she is alive and well, phew. Other weekend activities included concocting soup supplies for the coming weeks in Boston - have broken away from my usual leek&potato or lentil soup, trying mushroom (very yum) and fish curry soup (slightly dubious). Also went to the gym, rewarding myself with a very long very deep bath afterwards - you'd appreciate the significance of baths if you knew that we've been deprived of a bathtub for 6 years! Now I'm back in Boston, facing another joyous week of surgery.. Goodnight!

Cows

I have a paralytic fear of cows. Driving home last week I took the scenic route and became stranded in a herd of escaped cattle.. My immediate response has subsequently made me laugh (though not at the time!) - I locked my doors! Protection from these rampaging bovine car-jackers perhaps? Needless to say the journey was significantly delayed..

Environmental destruction

I think I may have inadvertantly caused environmental havoc this weekend.. Mum gave me a bag of organic vegetables to bring back to Boston this week. On cooking the broccoli I found the inevitable green caterpillars (experience has turned the original shock at finding green creepy-crawlies into wary expectation!). I guiltily dropped one out of the kitchen window and - bearing in mind that I live on the third floor - thought that the end of it. However, crossing my path walking into work today was none other than that green caterpillar, amazing! But, Boston is in Lincolnshire, a farming county whose principal produce is cabbage... What havoc will my introduced species of caterpillar wreak?! Entries on a postcare for next weeks Boston Standard headlines...

Discussions over the cooking pot

While cooking tea this evening I got into a long discussion with my new flatmate, a doctor from Pakistan. At one point he asked whether I am religious - I said, "well yes, I am a Christian". He laughingly said "yes I know that, but are you religious?" I was a bit stuck for words for a minute - what did he mean as 'religious'? I mentioned going to church and reading my bible - his response was "Wow, that's impressive". Hmm, I am continually stumped by society's view of religion - it seems here to be deviod of faith, and measured in the number of hours spent in devotion. And what then is Christianity?

I have randomly just discovered a website that pinpoints exactly where exactly the opposite side of the world is - alas the childhood I mistakenly thought that tunneling from England would take me to Australia - I've now realised it would take me to the middle of the ocean west of New Zealand. I was never very good at geography! http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html

Midnight snacks

Well, it's 02:22 and I am eating a bowl of museli, trying to block out the loud horror movie being watched behind me and trying to stay awake for another hour.. I had to sew 5 buttones, FIVE buttons, on my shirt late last night, hence the effort required to stay awake until work finishes. I decided to join the Blogging world after enjoying the opportunity to catch up with the daily lives of overseas friends - but I think the only posts at the moment will be the middle of the night! I'm working in a district hospital in northern central England, in the flattest part of the country. On a clear day we can see the sea 40 miles away - a reminder that there is a bigger world out there than the sometimes tiny world of medicine.

Beginnings

Um...where to start?