Back on Track

Things have been busy here, as some of you will know I lost a good friend recently but life goes on. My friend had cancer and never told anyone, not even his family, and it has been difficult for everyone to get their heads around that.

Well, to other things, with the recession the Irish government has been doing the best they can to stimulate the economy and create opportunities but it is a slow tedious old job. There are just no employment openings here anywhere so the government is concentrating on improving peoples options by sending them on skills training schemes so that they can have more qualifications, and guess who got caught up in one of them, yup me !

I was told by our local unemployment office to take a scheme or course over the summer months or risk having my unemployment payment reduced by 50 percent !!! So here I am in Carlow IT college doing a course in Web Design until September, it’s not bad actually but I did have other things planned for my time that I had to postpone.

The weather here is wetter than a wet thing, if it does not stop raining soon I think I will turn into a Dolphin or something, oh to have some sunshine :-(

Kevin Zielinski Online Memorial | GoneTooSoon.org

I have just lost a good friend to cancer, I hope that wherever he is now is a perfect place for him. You are always in my thoughts, Kevin

Kevin Zielinski Online Memorial | GoneTooSoon.org

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Have been busy

We have had a busy 2 weeks, the first week was in France, me and Angela went on a break for our 20th wedding anniversary and the weather was glorious. After that we headed to London and I did a few days work for my sister.

We just arrived home yesterday and the house looks like a lads pad after my son was here with all his mates for 2 weeks, (2 weeks of washing in the laundry basket!)

Ok I will post some photos when we get this mess sorted...

Anniversary

We are 20 years married today ....

Yorkshire Airlines

This is one of my Uncle Keith's favourites, enjoy.....

I finally catch up with the rest of the world ...

Hello everyone as the title suggests I went out today and got myself a new windows net book. I will leave it to my gadget husband to tell you all the cool stuff I have on here because quite frankly I don't have a clue but at last I really have caught up with the rest of the world if not the universe. We have been having the most terrible rain over here, we need a tiny bit of sunshine please just to make life worthwhile. Tim and myself will be toasting 20 years of wedded bliss on Monday, I think I deserve a medal, don't know his take on it ha. TALK AGAIN SOON BYE

timmygadget

Oh no its timmy and then more timmy

Me on HMS Brinton around 1993 ish

Me again in timmy and angelas first appartment in Plymouth 1989

Timmy in 1966 about 2 years old in our old house in Thornhill, Dewsbury

Old pictures of my kiwi relatives

These are pictures some of you have seen before, and yes thats you in the pictures there Karen :-)

Geoffrey Norris

Some old pictures of my dad, mmm maybe I take after him in the beer department ...

Just call me ‘Computer Repair Guy’

What is it with people, since I got home last week my sons friends have been queuing up with broken computers for me to fix. My son Keith has basically told them I will do them for a few beers, and not money (they all must think that I am an alcoholic!). I have another one to do later today plus I have done 3 laptops this week too, I am repairing Macbooks as well. Maybe I should do it as a business.

On other matters things at home are good, its nice to be back among my family after 4 weeks away, but the rain here in Ireland is doing its worst to spoil things for us. England is still warming itself in spring sunshine while we are stuck under a dirty great big grey cloud that's dropping rain by the bucket load and it does not seem to want to move at all - timmy