The Garrison Hotel Sheffield

... supportive and keep making sure I have everything I need or if there is anything they can help with. I feel I have built on the skills I already had and have gained some new ones - Who said ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’!! I rather enjoy just being able to walk across the road to catch the bus. Means there’s no real time pressure in the morning because they run very frequently during morning peak so if I miss one ...

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

... I was walking on. They’d paved the path with boulders?! On purpose?!

This was when my leg started coming out of its socket.

The Greedy Sheep Incident

Pennine sheep are in some parts greedy having been feed by walkers they rather expect food now. They will sneak up behind you but if you wave a stick they kind of run away and wait for you to stop paying attention again. I asked Ryan (remorseless *******) to watch ...

... raining still!

It has been a bit of a blur today, as well as the Royal Marsden we have been to Addenbrookes in Cambridge, THe Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham and now I am sitting in a cosy front room in Sheffield with a real fire!
I am excited about tomorrow as we will be going back to my home town of Newcastle. Yippee!!
I have taken a few pictures of the day.

Finally made it through my last working week in Brum, loose ends bar for one all tied up and had 2 amusing and fulfilling last days, but it feels so good to now be finished.

Thursday I was hitting a bit of a wall (some fatigue, some stress and needed some air) so headed out to the shops and came back with a can of diet coke (UK can which are the small size). Drank it quickly before my first afternoon patient and pow! I was off - a ...

... the CHANGE. I don't particularly like change, but I like to take myself out of my comfort zone sometimes and see what I can handle. Keep challenging myself.

Keeping this short, otherwise it will get VERY boring. More time for fun stories and escapades then! xox

... ritual which we got to watch. This particular ritual only happens once a year. There are three different rituals that happens around midsummer, at different points of the day. It was very interesting to watch. One minute, all you see are tourists snapping photo after photo in front of the structure, and then the next thing you know there is a big line of people dressed in long white cloaks walking towards the sacred stones. Some are carrying incense balls, while some are ...

... be using it! To be fair, the idea of not staying in on facebook or just dossing around all summer makes me feel alot better, cause theres nothing worse than wasting my days on staying inside and just watching the summer pass by! I also have to sort out the really boring things such as what to pack, what documents I need, but im sure my mother will be all over that! My plan after camp ...

... got one for 3.4 cents/minute to the UK) and give me a ring! Tomorrow we start orientation, so it's looking like an early night to crash, although I am torn since the Duke game comes on at 2am here! We'll see what happens... I miss and love you all more than you could possibly fathom. I can't express how much it meant to me that so many people went out of their way to see me before I left. You are all amazing! Please keep me in your prayers -- I need them to be sure! All my love, Mel

... to be ****-ing about at work' entry. Hopefully the ones that follow will be more interesting. Knowing my ability to attract loons and my inability to use public transport, there should be much to laugh at on my Round-The-World trip. I'll write something else, when I have something more interesting to say, or more time to waste. Bye bye, for now. P.S. Yes, that is another picture of Roos church - the last one I promise!