Hi everyone,rnI thought I had better do a quick update.rnWe haven't been doing much up until now, working and a few parties with the Polish and Slovakian's in our Apartments. Now Dad & June are here so the pace has picked up again.rnThey arrived on Wednesday 20th June - they were due to arrive on the 21st so that was a rush to the airport for me!rnThis gave them a rest day, then the car tours began. We have gone to Kilkenny, Kildare, Glendalough and Powerscou...

Hello everyone. It's Eamon here, I thought I had better write a blog seeing that I haven't written anything and we have been here for four months. It's not that I don't have anything to say, it's just that Rebecca has been very good at putting photos and blogs on this site, where the only sites I have been on are building sites. I'm a bit of a ludite when it comes to technology; Rebecca is the master of that domain. Lesley was here last month and I think she enjo...

Hi everyonernI hope that everything is going well in dry Australia. It has been quite warm here for the past 3 weeks and is still continuing to be sunny this week (18degrees most days).rnMum has returned home now, so life has quietened down again. I am working at the Protestant school in Shillelagh, this is about 15km from Tullow. The school has only 24 students and I am teaching 12 of them from Junior Infants to Grade 2. It means that I have to plan 4 classes in...

Rebecca’s Mum (@ Eamon’s Mother-in-law – no escaping me Eamon!) – typing this on Bec’s computer in their lovely apartment in Tullow – looking out the living room window at an assortment of roofs – the closest being their local pub – very convenient for Eamon to pop out for a quick nip of Guinness – but then, with 16 pubs in this very pretty village, a quick nip is available from about every second shop! My 4th...

Well to say that last weekend was a big one is an understatement! As you may know it was St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday, to celebrate this Monday was a bank holiday, so a long weekend for all.We started the festivities on Friday night in Tullow at Dalton’s with Karen, Siobhan, Denise and the rest of her family. Denise’s cousin was playing guitar there and singing Irish Rebel songs (I think that they start all sounding the same, but I’m not ...