Very colourful, lorikeet

An odd sort of day today. ... That's an odd sort of sentence. Along the lines of "Very flat, Norfolk" ... Anyway, today was a bit odd: patches of frenzy, punctuated by bits of relaxation - in the first period of which I managed to get this - probably the best photo of a lorikeet I have ever taken. 8)

Do look at it large - I think it will reward a bigger view.

The second of today's relaxing periods was, as it happens, consequent on the events leading to the frenzy. I had to go to Staff Health to tell them why I have antibodies to Hepatitis B (happily they accepted my word that it was the course of vaccination at the start of clinical attachments in medical school), and had I ever - EVER - been overseas other than the UK and NZ, because TB. Weellll yes when I was FOUR we went through Japan, Siberia, Russia ... I said we didn't spend long and she wrote down "transit only". And hell, I've had three Mantoux tests and two BCG vaccines over the years, so I think I'm probably ok if I'm going to be. Anyway, now I have it all recorded on a handy-dandy card that I'm not a walking plague-carrier.

That, short as it was, threw me out with respect to the train timetables, to the point that my arrangements to meet with an Access Team nurse for a home visit would not have been possible.

So I went home for lunch. That was nice. And met the nurse afterward, as the visit was down in the mid-Mountains.

Then the visit took longer than I really had available - even though by dint of my rearrangements we ended up getting there substantially earlier than we originally had planned. Thus I was set back a fair bit for my afternoon clinic. Hence frenzy - albeit minor, to be honest. Probably felt worse because I was typing notes in the car until I felt queasy, and that took ages to settle down.

Oh! Very pleased about our old monstrously-pruned lemon: there are quite a few brand new shoots poking their way out. :-D And there's a second bud on the peach, and lots of new growth. So all going very well there. 8)

Oh, and I found this amusing at Kisswood - I mean Kingswood - station.