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We arrived back here at the ass-end-of-nowhere at midnight on Tuesday, after a long day traveling from Ireland, where we spent Christmas.

Since then it's been downhill all the way.

Wednesday I spent mostly sleeping, while Thursday was devoted to blogging, which consisted of staring blankly at two computer screens for upwards of nine hours and not typing a word. I think I'm brain-dead.

I am always delighted when Christmas has been and gone, although this year I pretty well managed to ignore it till the 25th itself. I hung up a very big stocking the night before and Santa filled it with nice stuff - not just boring grown-up stuff like socks and after shave either. I got toys too.

On Boxing day Kaspy the Collie blotted her copybook somewhat when she got caught in the kitchen with a whole breast of turkey she had stolen. She managed to scoff at least two pounds of the stuff, and much to the annoyance of everyone else, I found it funny, and expressed the view that it would save us all turning green from eating turkey sandwiches for the next week.

So Kaspy was in the dog house - with me.


Kaspy with her Christmas hat, not her halo, round her neck.
Foto by The Mongrel.


I managed to spend a couple of days wandering around downtown Belfast shooting photographs. The weather was beautiful. Sunny, crisp and cold. The city is beautiful and positively buzzing these days, and the transformation since the old days of "the troubles" is vast, and still continuing.

The Mongrel's mum came back to Scotland with us for a couple of weeks. Her luggage consisted of a bag of clothes, not too big, and a bag of bottles of the alcoholic spirit kind, larger than the clothes bag. Scotch and Irish whisky, gin and the tonic to go with it, and more.

I like a woman like that.

Anyway, the New Year will be quiet here, and that's the way I like it. I'm usually optimistic and look forward to the year ahead, but I find it difficult to be anything except pessimistic this time after watching the way of the world in 2005.




Approaching the Scottish coast on our return from Ireland.

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