August 12, 2009

• nice week

   

  Castle Ward on the hill viewed across Strangford Lough

  It's turning into rather a busy week work-wise. I'm very pleased about this of course and at the hourly rate I work at these days a busy week doesn't compare to how busy my week was when I was working in that last teaching place in England.

  

  Castle Ward's Classical frontage

  Last weekend was rather relaxed, I made some more bread 'cheese and onion loaf' and then some carrot and asparagus soup to go with it. On Sunday we all got into a friend's car and we drove to a National Trust property called Castle Ward. It was a lovely day for walking and we brought Fintan with us and how we walked! He slept all the way back in the car but never considered stopping when we were walking the magnificent grounds. There is an interesting story attached to Castle Ward and that is that the woman who married the Lord of the Manor has very set ideas on how she wanted the house to be built, sadly so did the Lord and so one frontage is built in the Classical style and the other in Neo-Gothic. Inside you go through one door with a classical arch above it and look back as you pass into the next room and above you is a Gothic one! Nice to know that no matter how much money you have and no matter how high born you are you still have an arguement on your hands when it comes to DIY.

   

  

  Castle Ward's Gothic 'frontage'

  That was Sunday and then back to teaching and massaging the good people of Belfast - it's very up and down of course but I do hope that I am finally going to be able to support myself and not have to work too much for other people. That said I am still hoping to hear from the college in Belfast soon to see if they have some hours to offer me.

  

  The farm buildings in the grounds of Castle Ward

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