I talked about The positives of student leadership and development that schools have been pushing for the past two and three decades. The Palmerston initiative is an extension and development of this direction.

I also sent an email to Richardson Ward Alderman about the state of Darwin and northern suburbs. It will be interesting to see if I get a response.

Having time before my appointment today gave me the opportunity to do a bit of reading, writing, texting, and catch up. Flinders Lodge is basic but comfortable. When one is alone, it lends itself to those activities.

The Adelaide weather today has been quite comfortable – or at least it was until the early afternoon. The temperature has been pretty reasonable. This morning the sky was blue and cloudless, the gradually became overcast during the afternoon. Now there is rain on the horizon because of the looming cold front.

Adelaide’s temperature supposed to plummet overnight, only rising to 14°C tomorrow. There is likelihood of it being windy.

Northern and Western South Australia have experienced strong winds and quite a bit of raised dust today. There have been some rain storms, but seemingly, they’ve passed over fairly quickly because of the speed of advance of the front.

My 3 o’clock appointment was running a little late because Traffic Collinson was a bit behind. He is quite happy with the way things are going but would like to see me again in between three and six months. The hernia corrections taken up pretty well but a slight bulge on my left hand side maybe do due to the fact of incisions within the way they’ve come back. It’s not out of this world. My thinking is that it might tighten further with the passing months, particularly if I do some exercise. I also need to look at losing some weight.

The staff at Collinson’s office email through my patient assistance travel documentation to Leslie Cox at 3:40 PM. He was able to process that and email me my approval for return travel by just after 4 PM.

So that gave me clearance by a few minutes to catch the flight home tomorrow morning.

There seem to be quite a lot of people staying at this lodge at the moment. It is self-contained and really does afford you the chance to relax a little.

Had pumpkin soup, roast lamb and salad with chips, and ice cream with strawberry topping for tea. Plane but quite filling.

It started raining at about 9 PM or maybe just a bit before. Quite light, penetrating rain. Wherever is falling, would be guaranteeing maximum soakage.

To be continued

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