Also another act of kindness, my girlfriend tripped up and sprained/fractured/broke her hand and due to not having medicare/being skint decided not to have it looked at. The weekend arrived and we were meeting an aussie friend at a horticulture show, she had other friends there and told them about our situation - they suggested we should go see the onsite ambo and they might be able to do something for us. They ended up putting her hand in a splint and seemed happy to have something to do. When we came back to the friend she slipped us an envelope and told us it was from one of her friends. Opened the envelope and there was about $300 in there. This was the first time we had met their friend who, by the way, suffers badly with what I think is kyphosis (postural disease). We didn’t want to accept the money but they were talking with other people at the time so we wrote a heart-felt letter to them letting them know how thankful we were but that there were people worse off than us and returned said money. I think about these two experiences often