At long last, I have finally got around to filling in a cast of characters. Here are the people who important in my trip out to Oz:
Cat - the little blonde. A friend from university, we decided to come out to Australia sometime in November last year, while on holiday in Italy with Morag, another of our friends. Cat is a fan of science-fiction and fantasy like me, and has brought many DVDs of Battlestar Galactica for us to watch at our leisure. Huzzah!! Surprisingly good at poker (which even she never knew), she abandoned me in Singapore to rot in a Japanese prison...! She's also notable for trekking through the rainforest near Mackay in high heels.
Zoe - the middle blonde. A friend whom I worked with in Derby as a lowly F1, we quite randomly applied and accepted jobs in Mackay without the other knowing the other was doing it. Frequently found sleeping, Zoe is renowned for being less than punctual at times, which was frequently a source of competition between us when we worked together as to who could arrive the latest. She also likes asking strippers what their parents think of their job.
George - the tall blonde. A friend of Zoe's who I met on a trip to Alton Towers. As we've already discovered she cheats at Towns, Cities and Countries, a game of her own devising. Possibly the only other person ever to read The Man Who Was Thursday, we have surprisingly similar tastes in books and films. Except that she quite enjoyed the remake of Fame.
Matt - another friend from university, Matt moved over here with his wife, Lucy, shortly after they got married. They are now expecting twins (as I correctly predicted), and are concerned at the number of times they will have to change nappies (the current conservative estimate is 25 times per day). Matt has surprised me greatly by showing enormous culinary skills which he never displayed at university because, and I quote, "If people knew I could cook, I'd have had to do it a lot more." He's also possibly the only person whose Yorkshire accent has got stronger after a year in a foreign country.
Andy - a PHO in medicine, he's another English doctor who has just finished his F2 year. It seems the medical workforce out here is almost entirely made up of us. Andy enjoys stroking other people's hair, getting his head massaged at Stefan's and doing lumbar punctures on fat women. He's out here with his girlfriend...
...Tori - short for Victoria. She's an A&E nurse, and the young one, being a whole four years younger than me (damn her!). She's also an accomplished pole dancer (so Cat and Zoe say), and cooks a surprisingly good chicken breast for someone who is a vegetarian. She also owns an extremely cute chihuahua puppy called Juno.
Ken - another of the PHOs, who trained in England and came over after F2, though he is originally Malaysian, and took seven months off to travel before starting in Mackay about six months before we all arrived. He like birds (of the feathered variety) and sticking his hand down snake holes. He has also had malaria, but didn't realise this until the raging fever he had for two weeks didn't clear up.
Ben and Kate - are two of the kindest people I've met. They allowed Cat and me to stay at their house (which is a gorgeous old Queenslander) while they gallavanted off to Thailand, and didn't even complain when we killed their plants. Kate is the only Australian PHO in the medical department, and Ben is an audiologist who moved here because he was given an offer he couldn't refuse! Also the owners of Pablo, who most definitley deserves his own post.
So that's it. The main characters in my life at the moment, though I'm fairly sure that more will be added as time goes on, and some will leave, as sadly people are wont to do. So before I get too philosophical I had best stop here, and start saving up stories of Pablo, the world's naughtiest dog!
Cat - the little blonde. A friend from university, we decided to come out to Australia sometime in November last year, while on holiday in Italy with Morag, another of our friends. Cat is a fan of science-fiction and fantasy like me, and has brought many DVDs of Battlestar Galactica for us to watch at our leisure. Huzzah!! Surprisingly good at poker (which even she never knew), she abandoned me in Singapore to rot in a Japanese prison...! She's also notable for trekking through the rainforest near Mackay in high heels.
Zoe - the middle blonde. A friend whom I worked with in Derby as a lowly F1, we quite randomly applied and accepted jobs in Mackay without the other knowing the other was doing it. Frequently found sleeping, Zoe is renowned for being less than punctual at times, which was frequently a source of competition between us when we worked together as to who could arrive the latest. She also likes asking strippers what their parents think of their job.
George - the tall blonde. A friend of Zoe's who I met on a trip to Alton Towers. As we've already discovered she cheats at Towns, Cities and Countries, a game of her own devising. Possibly the only other person ever to read The Man Who Was Thursday, we have surprisingly similar tastes in books and films. Except that she quite enjoyed the remake of Fame.
Matt - another friend from university, Matt moved over here with his wife, Lucy, shortly after they got married. They are now expecting twins (as I correctly predicted), and are concerned at the number of times they will have to change nappies (the current conservative estimate is 25 times per day). Matt has surprised me greatly by showing enormous culinary skills which he never displayed at university because, and I quote, "If people knew I could cook, I'd have had to do it a lot more." He's also possibly the only person whose Yorkshire accent has got stronger after a year in a foreign country.
Andy - a PHO in medicine, he's another English doctor who has just finished his F2 year. It seems the medical workforce out here is almost entirely made up of us. Andy enjoys stroking other people's hair, getting his head massaged at Stefan's and doing lumbar punctures on fat women. He's out here with his girlfriend...
...Tori - short for Victoria. She's an A&E nurse, and the young one, being a whole four years younger than me (damn her!). She's also an accomplished pole dancer (so Cat and Zoe say), and cooks a surprisingly good chicken breast for someone who is a vegetarian. She also owns an extremely cute chihuahua puppy called Juno.
Ken - another of the PHOs, who trained in England and came over after F2, though he is originally Malaysian, and took seven months off to travel before starting in Mackay about six months before we all arrived. He like birds (of the feathered variety) and sticking his hand down snake holes. He has also had malaria, but didn't realise this until the raging fever he had for two weeks didn't clear up.
Ben and Kate - are two of the kindest people I've met. They allowed Cat and me to stay at their house (which is a gorgeous old Queenslander) while they gallavanted off to Thailand, and didn't even complain when we killed their plants. Kate is the only Australian PHO in the medical department, and Ben is an audiologist who moved here because he was given an offer he couldn't refuse! Also the owners of Pablo, who most definitley deserves his own post.
So that's it. The main characters in my life at the moment, though I'm fairly sure that more will be added as time goes on, and some will leave, as sadly people are wont to do. So before I get too philosophical I had best stop here, and start saving up stories of Pablo, the world's naughtiest dog!
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