It's a month today.........

 
 
Seems like a lifetime that we left, yet it just seems like yesterday in some ways. Apart from missing family and friends, it’s been fantastic. The Millhouse is challenging on many levels, we aren’t open yet, so a lot of it is making systems out of chaos. Loads of fun, exhausting 13-14 hour days, we didn’t come for a rest! Last night there was a HUGE event across the road at Slane Castle so we had a full house. With an incomplete setup and a house full of people we went for it…..the fun part was climbing up through the attic onto the roof in the rain for the fireworks! Rod spent several hours trying to sell some of our surplus parking to punters. He filled 12 of our 300 odd spare parks, we’re sure Radar would have done much better! Still he met some interesting people, the coast guard, patrolling the 10 mtr across Boyne River, the Guarda (police) and several hawkers, familiar territory really! They could see he was an event pro…….
Barbara slipped up into Northern Ireland on Friday to buy some building supplies, we are EU and they are British, hard to believe that until very recently there was so much unrest there, seeing the white crosses of the young men who starved themselves to death was very sobering though.
The language is a challenge, we miss a lot and have to ask people to slow down….they don’t understand us either, but seems to work out…..so much for learning French!!! Never mind, the craic is good!