XPLORE – Out & About

As much as we like being Out and About exploring this great country of ours, every so often we get that curved ball that lays us up for a short period of time…

Our curve ball over the past couple of weeks has been some minor surgery to remove a marble from my nose.

Uh…?

It’s a long story, but let me explain…

Since I was a small kid I’ve suffered from a blocked nose and minor sinus infections on a regular basis.

As a three year old my mother, Fay, famously asked…

“Baz, did you stick a marble up your nose…?”

Now, as a kid not long out of nappies, it was a bewildering question.

You know how little kids get when a proposition like that is put to them, maybe I had, how would I know, there is a lot happening in the life of a three-year old as life leaps from one minute to the next?

I’m sure if my mother actually thought I had a marble up my nose I would have been marched off to hospital at that time, but the joke was set and the question became legendary and a good laugh has been had with family and friends over the years…

As it turns out it has only taken a few decades (lost count how many) for the medical profession to work out that my nose is badly aligned and in fact one side is almost completely blocked.

The ENT Doctor said there’s you’re problem.

Seemingly I just grew up thinking it was normal, not there is anything too normal about me, hey!

Anyway, I elected to have the surgery done a couple of weeks back and it all went well. So we will be Out and About exploring this great country of ours very soon…

Footnote:

As I was wheeled into the operating theatre I asked my surgeon did he bring a bag of marbles so we could shoot a game or two later. He looked as bewildered as a three-year old toddler, but perhaps he just put my rambling down to the “sleeping juice” that was just starting to flow into my veins – if only he knew…

Cheers, Baz…

Photos: Janet & Baz

About us…

We love the colours of the Australian Outback, the red earth touching a blue sky on a faraway horizon; and the fabulous coastline of our sunburnt country, where a golden sandy beach is washed over by a warm turquoise blue sea…

A few years ago we graduated from work and re-entered the classroom of life where an education is guaranteed and all that is needed is an open mind.

Cheers, Baz & Janet