Bringing things to a close...

The time has come to end the blog. I've been thinking for a while now that it would be appropriate at this time to put an end to all things blog-like. Its been fun, and its lasted far, far longer than I ever would've imagined. But its time to sign off... Thanks for reading and checking in folks. Maybe this will start again in the future. However, for now the end is nigh...

Dublin

So... I've been away working for a few days...

These are my places of 'work'. Firstly the rather nifty looking Trinity College Dublin...



And the National Library of Ireland, of which this isn't a good photo really, but itsn't the worst place to be working...


Right next to the Irish Parliament no-less. Or the Office of the Taoiseach (Irish PM)..


This is where I ate breakfast every morning (the grass to the left of the picture) in St Stephen's Green..


This is where my hotel was, though I will add a disclaimer in saying that my room looked out onto the small back street behind the hotel, not the River Liffey. Still, twas nice...


And this is where I got to chill out with a bit of an evening stroll along the River Liffey (thats the Four Courts builing on the right)...

A Good Day/ Long Day: Take 2

I'm running out of creativity with my post-titles. At least for now.

Today has been another long, but good day. It has including being at Church, being on the Wirral, moving lots of furniture and driving around in a van. Marvellous.

I also just watched Black Hawk Down for the first time in a long time which was great, but also frightening. If you've not seen it then please do.

One particular aspect I took from the film was the moments when the troops are flying into battle, and all you see is the relative peaceful serenity and beauty of God's world - the landscape in short - and then within two minutes the troops are thrown into a deadly 'hornets nest' of bullets. Essentially it reminded me of this perfect world which God created for us, which is now a fallen, and very messed up world.

Oh, and this is a picture of the newly refurbished Peter Pan statue that they put back in Sefton Park recently. I tried to post it yesterday but failed as blogger wouldn't let me.

A Good Day/A Long Day..

So... In the midst of all this MySpace business and - AND - the fact that I do actually have quite a lot to be doing right now, its very tempting to can the old blog and move on to new and better things, which, at the moment looks very much like spending quality time with amazing people, finishing the old masters degree and getting ready for Relay which is fast approaching.

But... For the moment I shall continue to churn out the posts, giving you some insight into my little part of this world. Splendid.

Today has been pretty good. It started with a walk in the rather wonderful Sefton Park, which still takes my breath away (don't worry guys - I'll have been to Dublin by this time this week so i can put up some new pics hopefully, ie not too many more of the park, but you must admit it does look good):

I even managed to find Peter Pan while I was there. Amazing...

After the park I helped Jules help move a lass from John Moores, which meant that I got to go and spend some time around the Anglican Cathedral which is always good. The girl lived in JMU Cathedral Campus, which as I found out, basically means that the view out of their windows is the Cathedral. Amazing. A slight prob with coordinating moving out of the halls and moving in to the new place meant that there was also time for a coffee and some relaxing on the grass just by the entrance to the Cathedral, which given the sun and its unique position was a very nice experience. So yeah... Thats been my day in essence. And its been a pretty good one.

I will say that I am missing those American types a lot, but otherwise its been a good few days. So yeah. There ya go..