A grey nomad’s adventure around Oz

Archive for January, 2012

Hot hot hot

Oh dear…I spoke too soon. The hot weather has arrived. And my air conditioner works…some of the time!! It’s quite windy, but of course the wind is from the east…which is off the hot countryside. Last night was quite unpleasant and I had trouble sleeping…sat up and read for about 3 hours from about 12mn. [...]

Great new hip

Well I continue to heal every day and am starting to return quickly to normal…no, normal was lots of pain and discomfort in a worn-out hip. The new normal is painfree and active. Yesterday I went swimming with Mel and the kids and it was so nice to be able to play with them in [...]

Blow wind blow

My gosh…..will this wind never stop!! Most unusual for here and it has been blowing strongly for several days. Only relief is that it is not hot at all….around 24 to 26 every day…suits me just fine. Not looking forward to the 40 degree days…which I suspect will come sometime.. Although looking at the weather [...]

Getting better every day

Well this new hip seems to be standing me in very good stead and I am doing more every day. 2 days ago I walked up to the local grocery store and back….about a km! Wow…can’t believe how good it felt to walk painfree. I could definitely not have done that before my surgery. The [...]

My brand new hip in place

Well it is all over and now it is just keeping up the exercises and continuing to improve….and get this new hip working 100%. Mind you, it is no walk in the park! Somehow I managed to block out the fact that the surgeon was going to seriously assault my hip and that it would [...]

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