Margaret McD Safe journey Lorraine. Hope you have a great hol;iday !!!

Mam If its like Christmas eve You must be really excited about your travels. Enjoy your last day in a classroom until you get back to the Sonna gang. We will be heading down to Cork tomorrow evening after work for Gers Dads funeral. Hoping to make it in time for the prayers in the Church because its supposed to leave the funeral home at 7pm. We will stay the night and go to the Mass so we will be gone for the skype on Saturday. So blogs and texts will have to keep us going. Happy Hollidays!!

Margaret McD Seems like there is a lot of organising to do before you head away. I had a lovely weekend in Galway. It was great to see your dad with a spring in his step again. I am so happy that things have workrd out for him. I truly believe Nana Glynn played a huge part in it all. Exams started today and as usual for exam time we had brilliant sunshine. Really pissed off with the weight. I have half a stone of my stone and five back on. I don't know if I will be able to regain control and I desperately want to. No more news for now. Hope to meet up with Shell and Sarah next week if it suits them. Will write again soon. Safe journey on your travels!!!

Mam Busy Busy Busy! Glad to hear you went to the quiz and met up with a few. Alls good here. Dad had a good day again today. He met the owner and another guy that has a bit of a share in the place and he thoght they were sound enough. He was kept busy all day so that was good. He is in his element getting up in the morning and I am dragging myself out. No more news really. Great that you are getting all those forms sorted.

lorglynntravel I will write the blog tomorrow. I'm tired today!! School was okay today- same class for the four days. Could be interesting!!

Mam Summer 2014 seems a long long time away alright doesn,t it, but time flies when you are having fun ! Margaret just finishing up her weekend and heading off to the east again. We enjoyed the visit. We went to the Pier Head in Kinvara yesterday Mary, Mag, Bernie and myself and we had a lovely meal. Dad starting off tomorrow so hopefully it will all go well.

Mam Theres nothing simple is there!!! But at least you have prescriptions anyway. Dad got his phonecall at last., so he is happy out. He was trying to ring you but couldn,t manage to get through. We,ll chat soon.

Margaret McD What a marathon read !!! Seems like you are getting well sorted for the final part of your trip which must feel great. Absolutely over the moon about your dads job. No one deserves it more. Glad for mam too. Don't know yet whether I will go west over the bank holiday weekend or not. I will see what's happenning and decide then. I will be very busy at work now until the end of July so if I din't go next weekend I won't be going till August. No news really. Will be in touch again soon.

Lorraine I got lazy this evening and didn't write the blog yet- you can see in the photos what I did today anyway!

Mam Howdy, no news here really. Sean and Dymphna came home. They had a good time. I was just looking at the calender and you won,t feel it at all now til you are on your travels again. As long as the work continues you will be ok. Would you be able to ask in the Pharmacy about the Malaria tablets. Have you the prescription you got before from trop med bureau. Or maybe a gp would give you a script without it costing you an arm and a leg. Were the crowd you contacted the ones I told you about?

Mam There was no fear today of Galway beating Mayo. It must have been the worst Galway performance ever! We will have to wait a few years I,d say.

lorglynntravel It must be really strange for Tom now with these applications coming in. Hopefully whoever gets it will keep up all the work he's put in!! I don't know if I'll be talking that much when I come home because everything is on the blog and ye know it already!! But, I might find something to say! Oh yea mam, got the visa- luckily I made the post office, though why they didn't deliver it I don't know!

Mam You forgot to tell me that you got your passport and visa. Thats great. I,m delighted you have it back. Have a good week! Will Galway bate Mayo?? Come on Galway!

MARY C Hi Lorraine! Had a great read this morning-I had two blogs to read. When I was reading yesterdays, I was saying to myself-'Mother of God"-out around the streets on your own at 4am in the morning! Anyway, it was great that you had a good night out- sometimes the unplanned ones are the best of all. Not much news from here: We're all T.P'd out but he has just 5 days left now, so we'll survive. He was delighted with the skype and he thought it was a real success- the kids were really interested in it. He was just sorry that an inspector did n't come for that lesson.! Tom had Communion yesterday- he had the communicants this year. It went fine but the priest mentioned from the altar that it was Tom's 1st. and last Communion-lovely, f..ing lovely! Friday was the closing date for applications for his post. He said there were 18 envelopes eventually even though they were very slow coming in. I think the Board of Management are meeting Monday night to decide on the candidates for interview. It should be all done and dusted before the hols even though his finishing date is the 31st.Aug. Fr. Pat arranged Muirean's communion for the 1st. June at a request from one of the parents.-She is not happy-a bank hol w\end. She is in sligo for the w\end. We can't wait for you to arrive home: I might have to take a few days hols as I'm sure you will be talking 10 to the Dozen for a few days with all you will have to tell us! I'll sign off for now: keep the blogs coming- its a great way of keeping in touch with what you are doing. Its the 1st. thing I do every morning: check the blog!

Margaret McD Great to hear that your little sister was able to help you out financially. Isn't she very good? No great news. Claire is gone over to see Gráinne this weekend while Dave is gone to a stag in Edinburgh. Stuart supposedly did two exams during the week and has another one next Tuesday. Aiden is waiting on the computer so I will sign off. Talk soon