April Fool's Diary

April Fool’s Diary is fundamentally a two-part diary. The first part covers a year from March 2012, by which stage the author is nearing the end of his medical career as a gastroenterologist on the Central Coast of New South Wales. The second part covers a four month period in 2019. The author is now well and truly retired, and is facing some health challenges of his own. Like all diaries, the book represents a random collection of thoughts and events. This is the fundamental essence of any diary. Some days are going to me more interesting than other days. Only a fool would anticipate anything different. Similar to the majority of us, for the author life seems to spend most of its time in the seemingly mundane lane. But then again is life ever truly mundane? Just as what seems initially complex can prove to be quite simple, so can what seems to be simple prove to be more complex than anticipated. In other words, the more life changes, the more it stays the same. And vice-versa. Readers will make their own individual judgements as to whether their efforts in reading this book represent a waste of precious time. As for the author, he obviously just needed to get some things off his chest. He may not have done that with any great skill, be he has at least done it with some of the honesty he sought.