- The Northern Irish health service is being reorganised and I have to 'make an impression' if I want to keep my job. I can say 'would you like some toast' in the manner of Sean Connery but I don't think that's going to help somehow.
- My kitchen is being rebuilt so walls down, dust everywhere, intermittant access to the cooker* etc.
- I don't want to be labelled an addict (see last post).
- My eldest is entering her teenage years which seems to involve a lot of door-slamming and mood swings which require me to stand in the corner and be verbally abused in a sarcastic manner and have my make-up nicked.
- I have 28 books piled up next to my bed and I'm feeling guilty about not having read them.
- I'm doing a post-graduate diploma thing which is extremely dull but I have only 4 months to go so I'm supposed to do some assignments and stuff.
So I will be here reading but perhaps not posting and commenting as much as before.
CB wanted to see some examples of Northern Ireland vernacular architecture. Here you are then, don't say I didn't warn you...
*cue noise of mass wincing*
This may not look so bad but in rural Northern Ireland ALL the houses look like this although they may also have large, rampant lions on the gateposts and a 6foot high model of a windmill in the garden. Such houses are often called 'La Ponderosa'.
