Four long months...

...have passed since I bothered to digitally scrawl about my life on this blog....so I thought I'd better update all 2 (and that's being optimistic!) of my regular blog readers, who by now no doubt have given up on ever having me write anything again.

So here we go, in no particular order of importance this is what's been happening over the past four months...

I'm going to be an aunt! Little Aussie niece on her way....ETA January 2009.
Wedding outfit and hat required for 2010 as my sister Ruth is getting married. I'm going to have a new brother in-law....ETW* 2010...

Celebrated with friends who became parents for the first time

I have knife skills, and not the 'SAS, slit your throat at 20 paces' ones. K and I did a course in the Cooks Academy which was really great and free of sliced digits. I can now chop an onion in several exciting ways...

Got all horsey. Pam and I signed up for horse-riding lessons this summer. While we're not quite Eddie Macken or Paul Darragh yet, those knee high jumps are quite challenging though! Have resisted wearing the jodpurs so far, instead opting for the cowgirl look. 'Whip, crack, away!' and all that....

The Irish summer was yet again a pile of soggy crap - wettest August ever by all accounts, I should have signed up for a boat building course instead of the knife skills thing but hindsight is a great thing....

Visited my dearest American friend in July; laughed, cried, walked her dogs, spilled wine on her expensive rug, watched an entire run of 'So I Survived a Japanese Game Show' and finally visited the Chocolate Barn. Spent 18 hours in JFK airport in not so hilarious 'flight cancellation' episode.

Got to a cup semi-final and third in the league in my 4th (!) season with Whitehall Ladies. Banjaxed achilles (again!) - hockey on hold for now, though I still got stung to umpire!



*ETW (Estimated time of wedding)