(This post took me much longer to write than usual, partially because so much had happened in the meantime and partially due to an inexplicable inertia caused by several periods of forced self isolation. For some strange reason your productivity sinks rapidly if you have actually nothing to do…..) It is the end of May …
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An unexpected job…..
It just didn’t feel right when I walked through the thick mud towards the abandoned building in front of me…. It all had started a day before with a brief text message of a friend asking me for help. When I stepped into the building, I noticed the bullet holes in the wall, the empty …
The Great Outdoors of the North and calling on an old acquaintance I never met…
One of the reasons for my excursion to the North was my complete ignorance of the natural beauty this part of the world has to offer and this despite of its population density and its industrial heritage. Whenever I had a few days time to go hiking, I usually drove to Wales in the West, …
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Bradford and Bingley
I am sitting in the kitchen of Chris Foster in Thornton near Bradford, just a few hundred meters away from the birthplace of the Bronte sisters. Chris is a sheep farmer and he has worked this land for over 50 years. There is hardly a tree on these hills and wind turbines and power lines …
Cornwall
With my first COVID vaccine having (hopefully) done its magic on my immune system, it was time to return to clinical work and to activities that are more in tune with the initial purpose of this blog: veterinary medicine and traveling. As a result of Brexit, there is now a general shortage of veterinary surgeons …
The end in sight ?…..
Its a year now since pretty much the whole world went into ‘lock down’ and little did I know how much it would also affect my traveling and working plans. So many visits were scheduled to colleagues and to congresses all over Europe and it (pretty much) all came to nothing….or at least it turned …
Doing it digitally
With COVID 19 keeping Europe still in its grip at the beginning of 2021, the question has to be asked, in how far it is possible to pursue the idea of working internationally as a veterinary surgeon ? Just travelling from one country to another has turned from being difficult to be nearly impossible. In …
Blue Monday or how to be a better colleague
It was a year ago that I was sitting in my little cottage in Falun, with three farm cats as my only company. With cold temperatures, but virtually no snow outside, I had ran out of excuses to make start on a project that I had pledged to pursue half a year earlier in Toronto….. …
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Back to where it all began
Aneta, my always helpful Polish colleague (and another person who wanted to kidnap my dog…..), who I already had worked together with in Sweden, got in touch – if I was interested working in a practice just 5 minutes (by bike !) away from my house in Camberley?…. The practice in question was Phoenix Vets, …
FECAVA VetChat
It was at the beginning of March in Antwerp at the Belgian Small Animal Veterinary Congress, when I met for the last time “physically” with my friends and colleagues from all over Europe to debate, to work, to learn with each other and to enjoy each other’s company. Until then FECAVA (Federation of European Small …
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