Doolittle moment

A while back Simon booked his place in Heaven by saving the life of a butterfly. Today I thought I booked my place, or at least got through to the semis, by saving the life of a terrapin. When I got home from work Sal suggested we head out for a walk and so we headed for Centennial Park. Just inside the gate and wandering past one of the ponds Sal spotted something on the path ahead. It was a terrapin. And it was headed away from the pond and towards the road. Not good, thought I. Good deed required, I picked the little fella up and took him down towards the pond. I put him on the grass and he scooted (not sure the actual word for how a terrapin walks, probably 'walks') back to the pond and headed in. Chuffed with myself I wandered on, my wife now knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am the natural world's Knight in armour.

The walk was fairly ordinary. We did a small loop and headed back via the other side of the pond. In the same way that (ethnic stereotype alert!) all Chinese look the same to me, I am not good at spotting differences between similar terrapins. So it may not have been the same one, but it certainly looked like the same terrapin we saw again, must have been 30minutes later, again walking away from the pond. On the other side. I toyed with the idea of once again taking the little fella back towards the pond but thought better of it. If he wants out of the water then so be it. Nature knows best.

Another thing that happened after I got home from work. I looked at my x-rays and found the note from radiology. Chest appears normal and lungs are clear. Hurrah! Lumbosacral spine - alignment of spine appears normal, vertebral bodies appear intact and the disc spaces are preserved. The SI joints also appear normal. And in particular there is no evidence of syndesmophyte formation to suggest ankylosing spondylitis. Which is nice.