Finally - finally, finally, finally...

[byslantedlight]

...Job 2 and Job 2.2 are over! Well, 99.9% over except a couple of relatively minor things that I can't do until other people get back to me. But over in the sense that after five weeks (wait, five weeks, was that all?) I am taking a day off tomorrow. Three days even, cos I am not working over the weekend either (for the first time in five weeks). Yeay!

D'you remember how I actually thought that Jobs 2 would be a nice break from Job 1 and I might actually have the time and inclination to write at the same time? Silly, silly Slantedlight... Although I might have, except for unexpectedly having to take over a second team alongside my first and... oh well. Done now, and there's a few days to relax a bit. *g*

Of course now I'm not quite sure what to do with myself until I start work again on Monday, back at Job 1... *headdesk* Hopefully I'll think of something... *g* I nipped over to a nearby sixteenth century National Trust place this afternoon when I realised I was done - it was so nice to get out! That bed? That's a "campaign bed" - they came apart and folded up, and that's what officers actually took with them when they were off on army campaigns, or exploring or the like back in Victorian times! Oddly enough I'd just been reading This Thing of Darkness (by Harry Thompson - brilliant book, about Darwin and Fitzroy on the Beagle) and it'd described Darwin taking a bed with him on a trek over the Andes - presumably it was something like this. Mad!

So I think hopefully I'll get out again tomorrow - maybe Bath, but actually maybe Exeter for a change, I've not been there for yonks, and I've always liked it... or maybe just Taunton, or... the world is my lobster! Well, anywhere within driving distance... *g* And there will be catching up of emails, and lj reading and posting, and tidying up of the wee annexe, and... stuff. Yeay!

How're you doing? *g*

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Ireland

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

This box-bed was really a box-bed. It was in a small farmcottage in the folkmuseum at Bunratty Castle and it seems that they had to shift the desk and the chairs when they wanted to sleep, because the cottage was so narrow and small, there was no room for a huge bed. At the morning the put the mattress in the box, closed the door and had enough room for the other furniter. I had a newer form of a box-bed when I was a teenager because my room was to small. So my parents bought a wall unit with wardrobe, folding bed and writing flap. And "tada" I had my own universe! :-)

So, to Ireland. We went to Lisdoonvarna and had day trips to Kylemore Abbey and Connemara, to Limerick and Bunratty Castle, a boat trip on the Shannon with time to visit Ennis and we went up the Loop Head Lighthouse and had a quick visit at the gardens of Kilrush. Loop Head Lighthouse was in more then one way breathtaking. When we got up and came to the view border we wondered why we should hold our glasses. But when we came around the curve towards the Atlantic , we felt it. There was a storm which took the breath away but the look was breathtaking at all.

I have send you a PM with a link to my photos. But at the moment I haven't written anything about this trip. But if you find a picture you want to know something about, just ask!

RE: Ireland

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Got the link, and I can see the pics just fine, thanks! Looks like a gorgeous trip - and very Ireland, with all those dark clouds hovering... *g* Actually I shouldn't say that, I've only been over once myself, and that was doing archaeology rather than travelling very far). Ireland is on my trips-to-take-soon list, though!

Ah - that kind of box bed! A bed that folds up into an actual box! *g* I can see the doors, now that you've said that. Having your own universe as a teenager sounds very cosy, too... *g*