Where am I

Well home and my intention to write up the holiday hasn't happened yet. Maybe I'll do bits and pieces from time to time. I've got involved with Facebook as the relations from Yorkshire are on it so that's been taking up time.

"Work" well I'm on the casual pool but haven't taken any shifts as holiday, tiredness after holiday and then the flu. Also I just don't want to go back there any more. They changed the way the casual pool worked, before you could be booked ahead but now it's mostly short notice and they say things like "hospital in crisis" which is not an incentive to go. They are ringing today but I've played two days of golf and still have a cough from the flu. I'm really enjoying not working and de-stressing and its a lovely sunny day. They say that they bump you off the casual pool if you don't do a shift in 3 months so I guess whichever comes first, they bump me off or I feel the urge to work a shift. 

Also haunted by the plane shot down over Ukraine we flew that route two weeks before like lots of people so you think about other families grief and how it could have been your family. Such a pointless waste of lives for the jumped little Putin's ambitions. One thing I read said he has a fatal disease so won't be around for long I hope they are right, whatever he is terminally stupid. Russia just seems to be a permanent train wreak of an economy.

I better not get into the mad monk (our PM) and his crazy crew, I never thought anyone could make John Howard look like a reasonable person but Ton has. Every one has got so polarised lately no middle ground.

 Here's a nice picture of York minister at the start of the Tour de France. We finally finished watching our recording of it a week after it finished and it was wonderful. Vincenzo Niboli was "imperial" as they say. A wonderful win and a wonderful team. I hope there are no drugs involved now. If it proves that they haven't cleaned it up (and it always comes out eventually) I will give up watching it. That'll rock the organisers haha. 

Remembering

T

We are back home and I hardly posted anything about our trip. We spent 2 days in Singapore and 6 weeks in Great Britain  so I'm going to post a picture or two of some of that. I really wanted to try Ramen soup as I love the Japanese movie Tampopo and also had watched The Ramen Girl with Brittany Murphy ( who we all loved from Clueless, who can forget her singing the toothpaste jingle). 

Sadly I think tiredness airplane food and the quite long walk to the restuarant took its toll. The soup was good but I was in a vegemite toast mood. It was interesting to walk around all the area by the river. I haven't been in Singapore for over 30 years and only went to buy an Atari game machine which were just new then. 

Dublin again

Actually managed to get published thank you costa coffee. This is some snaps as our guide calls them amazing gold woven and embroidered church robes from Waterford medieval museum which was fantastic. Also a bridge over the wiffy Liffey 

Dublin again again

We are having lunch in the gallery after a lovely look at the beautiful and interesting paintings. The building is very nice too sitting inthe lunch space under the sky withe fronts or backs? Of two old buildings. I don't think we were supposed to take pictures of the paintings so I will buy some post cards through people were taking pictures. It is not to crowded and we are pacing ourselves because of my cold. Lunch is very nice too and some lovely earl grey tea at last. 

Dublin

Well here we are in Dublin. Want to see the book of Kells but big queue so we will try the museum first after morning coffee. I have a cold from the bus quite a few people have it and the smell of smoking in the hotel rooms are worrying me. 

Waiting at the airport

We are going to Singapore for a couple of days and then to London what can you say about airports. I bought a book to read and a journal. This is the moon we got up so early and the book I bought also one of the frost river bags we bought to take with us they are sooo nice

The pink air

This is a lovely sunset and moon rise sometimes the evenings look purple but this one is pink