national days 23 April 2009
Happy St George’s Day to all who celebrated that – am wondering if any of you call it George’s Day or Georgie’s Day the way we Irish say Paddy’s Day?
As it happens, today is also Shakespeare’s birthday and the day he died – yup he went on a birthday – so it’s momentous all round.
I had a tedious Heathrow experience this morning made good by the fact that there were a few VERY handsome men on my flight to gladden my (aching, conjunctivitisy) eye when I finally got on a plane and out of there.
Back to a house in Dublin full of strange and fairly nasty smells. The (as yet largely unusable) new ensuite has a drainy smell that would knock you sideways and there is something down the back of my treasured new cooker that is causing a horrid niff in the kitchen. Not sure what can be done about either.
So not a lot to lift a gal’s spirits, I’ll admit, and I’ll also admit that I am still quite blue – just can’t seem to shake it, dunno why, just this general ennui (not sure if I’ve used that word properly but I like the sound of it for this). I’m walking a lot so it’s not a lack of exercise. No drinking alcohol this evening so it ain’t that. Perhaps it’s weirdly seasonal – I say weirdly as the weather has been good and that generally lifts a spirit. In fairness, it was raining when I got to Dublin today but the temperature was balmy and it was quite a nice soft misty sort of precipitation and the sort that’s a pleasure to walk in when you have all your protective gear on, and very good for the complexion I’m guessing. Ah well, an early night and hopefully lots of sleep and we’ll tackle this general downness tomorrow and hopefully banish it. I have 2 weeks in beautiful Devon to look forward to in spite of having to put in a bit of work too, and that SURELY will sort me out.
WHAT IS TWITTER??? I know some of you follow me on it but I have no idea if I understand it properly or want to get yet another addiction and potentially brilliant timewaster into my life if I start to follow people…
