Wednesday 27th February

Wednesday 27^th February

Claire’s fear of finding herself prone on the floor of the pharmacy, having jackjumper medication inserted rectally, was truly horrific.  But someone she knows had something on a summarily scale recently… Angie was walking on a track on the Tasman Peninsula when she slipped, fell, and found herself slightly dizzy.  Her very alert companions rang the local medical centre, and before she knew it, she was strapped to a board, a neck-brace in place, and was being whizzed, sirens blaring, to the Royal Hobart Hospital in a large ambulance.  They deposited her in Casualty, where she waited, still strapped to the very uncomfortable board, for four hours.  And…when the doctors came to shine lights in her eyes and examine her for spinal injury…there was nothing wrong at all and they sent her home…

Phatty’s Sports Bar –Saigon 2008

Pete’s friend Ben not only manages six restaurants in central Saigon, he has also recently set up a brand new sports bar, Phatty’s.  This is going to be extremely successful.  We went there on our second night in Saigon, to watch the State of Origin (rugby…) game.  Lots of people (yes mainly men,) lots of beer, lots of huge TV screens, some showing cricket, some showing motor racing, most showing The Game.  I could see it was all great but I found it quite overwhelming, and noisy… (pathetic old chick…) So I snuck outside and sat very happily on a little stool with the young bloke who parks the motorbikes, and watched the traffic and the people go by.