Sounds like you had a great time, love the recipies, now I just need to catch something to try them out.

not sure whether we will be home or not, I sorta slipped in one of the trout streams, went down in a screaming heap, the quacks reckon I've chipped or cracked my right hip, we are off to town Sunday night to start specialist tests on Monday to make sure I haven't broke the damn thing, never mind, could have been worse, although some would say "missed by that much"

Gary if you haven't tried trout fishing then you got something to look forward to, pretty smart little beasties, my biggest was between 18 inches and 2 foot, fought like a Trojan

grab the gear, knock up a fly and try your luck, I reckon the Tassie ones fight just that little bit harder though, funny, the Tassie trout preferred wet flys and the NSW trout preferred dry

so Robyn and Ted, where are you off to!

Davo mate, how about reposting those recipes on the recipe thread. They won't get lost as quickly there. just a suggestion.

Jim

Dave. fishing is meant to be relaxing. you are not meant to throw yourself on rocks to get them.Hope your spill turns out to be minor and you get well soon.i need your sanity from time to time.
Cheers Jack Cherie and the four legged kids.

Hope everything is feeling a bit better Dave.
Love a bit of trout fishing myself, though been a very long time between fly's :)
Glad your having a good time, have missed you around here though.

Cheers
Ell

we's home, dagnab it, got home around 5 this morning, horrid place to be, cant wait till June then we's off to Canada, I'll be a grump until then, I've already had our quack around fussing over me, worst part about travelling is when it's over

hell and damnation!!!!!! oh well get to see my grandies again and my "family"

some do, but Sam is a family friend, has been for around twenty years and a better bloke you wouldn't find, he featured in our paper recently for almost a lifetime of helping others in far flung places

"we are off to town Sunday night to start specialist tests on Monday "
You going to Adelaide .Davo.....where???.......I could catch up with you...My Dad is in hospital

If you are in the big smoke for specialist treatment......let's catch up. Where will you be ??

I'll come and see you!!

I have quite a few appointments in town that are scattered all over the joint, I have three in north Adelaide scheduled for the morning with private specialists, I then go to a couple of various hospitals including one down by the zoo, god knows I may not get away from there, xrays/cat scans and pressure tests??? seems to be the order of the day

not real sure where I will end up but I am assured it will be at least a week, to be honest I dont know where I will be at any given time as my appointments have "flexible" stamped on them, Sam reckons that's to allow greater time for any one test, I will be kicked from one specialist quack on to the next so as to spread the money around

if I was public health then I would be given a bex and sent home with a band aid, this is what happens when you go private

apparently my heart valve is not so flash, damaged during my last heart attack, so there is talk of cutting up miss piggy and knicking hers or whatever they do now, this I am against as it is causing minimal problems and I refuse to sit on my freckle for the length of time they want me still, once these buggers get hold of you they dont let go in a hurry

Sam is a regular visitor to our house as a dearly loved friend but he just happens to be a highly qualified surgeon so there is no getting away from his constant "exams", he and his lovely wife Debbie are constants at any family meets we have, our family doctor of 30 plus years is Frederick lau, a fantastic little Chinese feller whom we love dearly, he brought our two sons into the world (but the little bugger refuses to take them back!!!), he dealt with my "illnesses" and the dragons radical hysterectomy, he has been our quack all the way through

we have a mob of folks here today fussing and farting but it's all good, me, well, i'm not so good, my side is up like a balloon, Sam has pumped me full of some stuff that is disagreeing with me and I cant walk, not real flash, the general consensus seems to be a vertical crack toward the rear of the hip, with a chip within the rotational cup thrown in for good measure, they may be able to take it out under local with laproscopic microsurgery, well at least I hope they can, the crack may mend itself without intervention, well this I hope anyway!

Dell we are going to the rockies on a "special" tour that encompasses many aspects of what that country entails, I am not exactly sure of our itinerary as it was put together from the glass castle (the header) over the phone by a lovely girl at the flight center, I know we are booked on the mountaineer, the train that follows the rockies along, and really thats about all I know

many other highlights are included, other than that I wouldn't have a clue and I dont care I trust the girls at the flight center explicitly, we dont even have the tickets, we pick them up at the airport (I hope), winter is not my time of year, takes too long to get the joints going, but when anywhere near an idiot box i watch the Olympics in absolute awe at the skill that these athletes exhibit

we originally booked over winter but Basil wised me up to that so we changed it to a more "agreeable" time frame

I am confined to the chair today and not even allowed to have the kids climb on me, which is killing me

never mind, we had a ball and would like to still be there, this will pass and life will continue, a short term illness is just another barrier we all must endure then proceed on from!

I am so lucky that I'm not a horse, they would have shot me by now, although I have heard whispers from the kitchen of such an event possible in the near future!

I think I will just hide in here for a while!! maybe they will forget about me and put the weapons away!, when asked "how I am" I answer "I'm really good thanks" I swear I hear them put the rifle away!!

Dave, you're pretty b#oody good at giving advice to others....its time for you to quit the male medical bravado cr@p and do as you're advised by those who know what they're talking about...you'll just have to find ways to put up with it ..like you do when you're in the header!
Consider it an investment in your future..   and all the fun you could still have ...would you drive the header without maintenance??   Its idiotic and its a wonder the Dragon hasn't knocked you over the head with the cast iron frypan!

Partners and family get very distressed  by the attitude of some men towards their health who then make it someone else's problem by having to be bullied or cajoled by their family to attend to their health. I don't think its heroic.....I think its irresponsible ..I'm not saying you are nescessarily, I suspect with you its mostly bluster but it doesn't help to perpetuate that attitude in the community.

Hope you can find ways to become more patient with yourself...at least you'll have time to meditate..   Scrabble is always great...!!   I'm sure you will be fine, hope you don't have too much pain with it all!   Cheers     Denise  :))

Yes, nice to have you wing by again Ducky, was rather afraid you'd got side tracked into a chinese BBQ shop and been glazed and nicely crisped!! Denise :))  Delicious, but not very talkative!!

Hell Denise I thought the Nagasaurous got loose again and put a post in, frightened the bejabbers out of me, no Dell I cant stay still for long, too much to do, about half an hour and I'm either dozing off or seizing up, must say i'm looking forward to the train

dont get me started on fly fishing or fly tying, you'll be sorry, it's become a great passion of mine!

-- Edited by dave06 on Sunday 28th of February 2010 10:12:18 AM