Monday 16 April 2007

Come fly with me....


View from the roof
Originally uploaded by thenamesrichard.
Well its confirmed, the flights are booked. Again this year, in about 2 months time, myself and four of the people I know best in life are taking a visit the the childrens home the charity I help run supports in India. Check out the Micah's Call link on the side bar for more info.

We go in July for two weeks and will probably spend some time chilling (or rather sweating) and much of the time getting dug into the work we have gone to do. We are looking forward to really getting to grips with the reality of life in rural India. We will be joining in with the churches work in areas of health and social care in the very rural and quite often poor areas of South India. Like all visits to a different culture, we anticipate the challenegs it will bring but we also look forward to changed lives on our return and are praying that God will use us to do good for His kingdom in the short time we have there.

Ill keep you posted!

This European ad......

I thought this was quite cool. Fill in the tick boxes and it colours your European travels! Notice I havnt been to Scotland - something I should correct sometime soon.



create your personalized map of europe
or check out our Barcelona travel guide


Thats all for now...

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Friday 6 April 2007

A new job!

Wahay I did it.

Iv broken out the "limited jobs" box of nursing in the NHS and managed to secure a new job in intensive care. Its about 5 minutes away from where I live which is great!

Having worked on a ward for over a year now, I have really come to the conclusion that I prefer 1 on 1 nursing rather than a caseload of 6 patients - even if the 1 on 1 patients dont talk back! Strange to say, but thats how im wired it seems.

I calculated that this new job will save me 1) about £50 / month in transport costs and 2) 6 hrs / week in time due to not travelling to work for 1.30 hrs each shift.

I start in about 6 weeks!

Thats all for now...

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