'CROCS' - NOT the ideal footwear for operating in!

I spent my usual day in 'theatre' yesterday and had an oportunity to try out my new little camera - it's a 'Fujifilm - Finepix' which was cheap but has an underwater housing I can use when snorkelling.

Anyway! - a friend of mine who is a surgeon took it upon himself to try out those clog style shoes called 'Crocs'.

Comfortable, plastic, and with ventilation holes!
Could it be that the holes which let evil vapours out might also let evil fluids in?
Here's the result. If I were Janet I wouldn't wash these socks I'd chuck them.

The 5th Horseman

A cartoon from today's 'Australian' newspaper.

Lukla plane crash.

Cousin Phil & myself standing at the tail of the plane about to carry us to Lukla on our way to Everest basecamp, 27th October 2004.

It was Yeti Airlines 9N-AFE, the same plane that crashed a couple of days ago.

6th October. George's 17th Birthday

George is 17!
It's also (very scarily) 37 years to the day since I started Med. School in London.

Apocalypse Maleny- Friday's Helicopter action over my backyard

Ooops! ALMOST LOST THE HOUSE!

Friday afternoon. Early finish and we were having a coffee when our Maleny neighbour, Jane, phoned to say that there was a fire threatening the homes at Bald Knob.
I left at 3.30 and got up there in an hour and a half - traffic!
Helicopters everywhere, a dozen or so fire-trucks.
Thick smoke blotting out the sun.
The firemen did a great job and got control of it before it became dark.




It was like a scene from 'Apocalypse Now'
I stayed up there last night to let the house 'air' and get rid of the smoke smell.
I think we may be culling some of the old shrubs & trees near the house.