A Year In Redwood

Have had a bit of an Australian thing going on in my life this week!  In a nice way, of course.

I may have mentioned that at the moment I am doing a course in Dublin.  So I leave here on a Monday morning and stay in Dublin til Friday evening, but more about that later.

This week while I was staying in Dublin, I managed to catch up with my friend, Valerie, who was home on a brief holiday from Melbourne.  We were joined by another friend, Mary for dinner.  The three of us had a great evening and meal at Ciao Restaurant in Malahide – the lamb was absolutely divine!

The wonderful thing about meeting up with Valerie is that although she lives in Melbourne, and only gets home once a year, our conversations literally just pick up where we left off!  Gosh, what a laugh the three of us had.

Thank you Valerie for a great evening and thank you to Sarah for coming to pick me up on a totally miserable wet evening!

I came home from Dublin early this week, travelling down on Thursday night.  We had Stephanie, Farmer Alfie’s daughter, and her boyfriend, Jason, here staying from Australia!  See what I mean about a bit of an Oz thing going on!

Stephanie and Jason had been here since Monday, but I only got to spend one night with them.  It was wonderful to see them both.  It had been such a long time since their last visit.

Jason works in tv, so as part of his trip around Ireland on this holiday, he decided to make a ‘murder/mystery’ programme.  I gather this programme is very impromptu and features people as Jason travels about!  Some of the neighbours had great fun participating…. Stephanie is playing the lead-role of the main detective!  So looking forward to seeing the final cut!