Do the Limbo....

Dad's planning on entering the world Limbo championships following all the training he's had installing our heating system...

News...

Started a new post in paediatrics this week. Was really sad to leave obs and gynae - I had a really good time working there with some great people (was only a bit of a shame about the abortion issues). I'm currently working in Perth, so it's a bit of a drive in the mornings and am having to get up quite early. Hopefully when the snow we have now melts I'll be able to get up a bit later! Doing clinics for 3 weeks and then I go back to Ninewells to cover the NICU (neonatal ICU). The rota is fairly heavy - lots of 70 hour weeks and 1 in 2.8 weekends for 6 months. Bit miffed as was supposed to get a pay rise but it looks like that wont be happening anymore. Anyway, it's my last 6 months of hospital medicine EVER!! Soon I'll be in cosy GP land ! Lots of exams approaching in the next year though, but we'll worry about them (and how many thousand pounds they will cost!) when I get to them.

Dad is still here - looks like central heating will be up and running by the end of next week. Will post photos once it's done.

Jen

Against the grain....

Well, after much deliberation and discussion Dave and I have finally done something we never thought we would.... we've bought a brand new car. (well, actually the bank has!). I've just gotten so stressed out lately with the cost of all the repairs to our old cars and we heard about a really good deal through some work colleagues. I don't really believe in taking loans for material things, but after some calculations it seems like the new car is wise. It's a very small car and not exactly top of the range, but it does have a warenty for 3 years, should be reliable and should be cheap on fuel (we're at 85p a litre on petrol here just now - a slight improvement on almost 1 pound ($2) a litre before Christmas!!). It doesn't arrive until March, so we have time to try to sell our old car for a few quid. It's called a renault clio campus ad will be very small by US standards!

It looks like this: