Sunday 19th September

Well, I had my laugh for the week, I needed one anyway, Geelong got bounced by bloody Collingwood, so we didn’t make the Finals.

Adrian, the bane of my existence, hasn’t been around much the last few weeks, he was saying a while back he was feeling just a bit crook lately, so when he started getting bad stomach cramps, and crapping blood, he finally got himself off to the RAMSI Health Centre.

I know I shouldn’t have laughed, the poor guy was really worried, but as it turned out he was the cause of it all with his penchant for eating cold precooked sausages and bacon, without cooking them. He has a terrific dose of worms, probably a couple of months worth in his gut, and they didn’t have any worm tablets in stock here for him. I haven’t opened half my medical kit, well, apart from the suture needles and the painkillers, it is all still sitting in the fridge. He was telling me about it on Friday, I was trying really hard not to laugh too loudly, I’ve told him repeatedly not to eat any meat that he hasn’t cooked, but he likes cold sausages and raw bacon. I admit I do as well, but not in the bloody tropics, 30*C+ temps, high humidity, trichominosis (sp?) in all the pork here, what the hell does he expect.

Anyway, I gave him a couple of tablets to take, one is meant to be enough, knowing Adrian, he’ll need the other one as a back up to take after a week to make sure they are all cleared out.

The dry season seems to be coming to a close early, we’ve had thunder storms nearly every night this week, not a lot of rain with it, but some. Yesterday it fair bucketed down in the morning while I was in Honiara shopping, it was very nice. I got soaked, and just stood there for a few minutes letting the rain thoroughly soak me. The locals definitely think I’m the mad palangi. 15 minutes later it had stopped and 30 minutes after I was dry again.

I spent Sunday morning with the bucket and sponge and washed all the louvre windows again, the amount of dust that collects when it is dry is enough to cut the light levels considerably. No I didn’t take all the glass out, I just used a chair to stand on, and washed them in place, got the frames washed as well that way, and any water that got everywhere else dried up in minutes anyway. 34*C already at 11m, going to be about 35/36*C by midafternoon, then hopefully the storms will arrive. If not today, another day of this and they’ll be here Monday or Tuesday afternoon.

I’ll be having a busy time when I get my next break away, I’ve got 7 little melanomas that I can see so far, I’ll be having them burnt or cut out when I’m in New Zealand before they get to be a worry. I should most probably get them seen to here, but given what I’ve seen of #9, I’d really have to be at deaths door to consider it.

update, I'm a day late with this, came down with a fever Sunday afternoon, spent all of yesterday sweating it out and living on paracetemol and brufen. Back to normal tomorrow I hope