Actually that question should be prefaced by why did I do medicine? Well I never thought of anything else – before I knew the university course was called medicine I wanted to be a doctor. Probably from the age of about 9 or 10. Which makes me very lucky in some respects. It meant that […]
My colleagues still look at me funny when I present something at a meeting and say “I found this on twitter.” When you’re on twitter as I have I have been for some time now, you assume everybody is. But I’m in a small nerdy minority it seems. There are good things and oh boy […]
The world is changing but I’m biased, I watch the Fully Charged show on youtube, I listen to their podcasts and those of BNEF founder Michael Liebreich on green energy and finance. I follow Renew Economy an Australian green energy website. So as it is with Twitter I assume everybody is on board with, IMHO, […]
We owned a Toyota Tarago for about 4 years. I don’t have multiple children. We had been on holiday to Canada and the in-laws met us – so I hired a Dodge caravan to get us all in. Well it drove like a car and had sliding doors. And that was me sold. Sliding doors […]
So I’m reasonably tech savvy, I read about cars most days, I listen to green tech podcasts as I walk the dogs. I can afford to be green. So I offloaded the gas guzzler (a Toyota Tarago since you ask with a 3.5l V6 – the best family wagon I’ve had by some margin. If […]
Where is here? I’m an expat Brit living in Australia. I confess that Australia isn’t actually where I’d chose to live, not enough mountains, too hot. But through life and circumstance and a decision initiated by my most lovely wife, here I am. I was in New Zealand before that – NZ definitely has enough […]
It’s an odd thing when buying a second hand car, especially when you’re a petrol head and you have spent many an hour scouring the ‘net for something that piques your fancy. You may have read thousands of words of prose from your favourite writer, or watched clip after clip on YouTube on the icons […]