God Bless the NHS

Hi everyone,

As you can imagine, I've been feeling flat this past week. Had a truck-load of assignments too, which was fun. I think the most 'exciting' thing, tragic actually, was that I had an accident. I sliced my finger open with a knife.

It looked like an over-boiled frankfurter, you know when it splits open and the flesh spills out...

Not nice at all. The blood wouldn't stop pouring so I had to have a couple of stitches. 140 AUD for two stitches.

Paying that hurt me more than the knife ;(

Can you see how the area is blue/green? The doc put the needle right in the wound, I nearly passed out.

I didn't let the wound hold me back. The next day I managed (not sure how) to make cook-up soup. Sidenote: Cutting pumpkin with a gammy hand is very difficult. Glad I managed it though ;)

Pumpkin, onions, potatoes, carrots, organic pasta, organic lamb and seasoning

The wound is healing nicely; despite the fact that the nurse didn't take out all of the nylon stitch, so I had to do a DIY job with my tweezers.



My Godmother xxx

I'm writing this post with extreme sadness. My Godmother has passed away. I know people only speak of the good at death, but that was all there was.

My Aunty Debbie was a fighter and loved life. She was always energetic and smiling, even when it was tough. My aunty was kind. Despite her suffering she thought of others, including myself. At my leaving party she gave me a little green notepad (my favourite colour) to record my memories of Australia. I haven't opened it. Maybe because I want the memory to stay intact.

My single prayer whilst I've been here is to see her at Christmas when I get home. That was my only fear when I left. Though it's too short, I've been blessed to have had her in my life.

I hugged her less than 2 months ago. Spoke to her a few weeks ago.

Will love her forever xxx

Till we hug again xxx

Sho getting techno?!

Hi everyone, thought I'd put in an appearance! Please bear with the quality, there's only so much of my face my Dell lappy can take! ;) Lots of love xx