How did the first of four night shifts at a busy emergency clinic feel like ?
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Four nights – Prelude
How does it feel, working four straight nights at a busy veterinary emergency clinic ?……
To Naples….on the hunt for the perfect pizza
On the hunt for the perfect pizza in Naples, Italy.
Extinct
A journey into the centre of London to meet the main protagonist of an extraordinary book – or what is left of him……
The cutting edge
How a short journey through the Surrey countryside in January and the simple maintenance of a blade can lead to a general perspective of work on the cutting edge….
Elk filet, bearded dragons and state of the art dentistry
I was sitting in Gunnar’s cottage in the middle of the Swedish countryside. A white layer of snow had covered the landscape outside and there were only a few days left until Christmas. Thick chunks of elk filet were frying in a pan, next to green beans from last summer’s harvest, while a potato …
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Insomnia
6 AM, pitch dark outside, the first alarm on my phone goes off and I am switching it to snooze….. 6.05 AM, the second alarm goes off – with the same result…. 6.08 AM, the first repeat alarm goes off…. OK, I give up…., I have to get up…. Getting up early has …
Biblical Beasts
We were at the end of our visit of the veterinary faculty of Perugia, a town with a long Roman and Etruscan heritage. Three months of preparations, five days of inspections, interviews, and team meetings plus a final presentation in the main building of this prestiges veterinary school lay behind us, to find out …
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