Darragh Ó Héiligh blog and accessibility guides

As promised, I’m posting again!  Two days in a row!  This is an achievement when looking at my lack of contribution to the blog over the last few weeks.

I just had to tell you of my fantastic weekend.  What did I do?  Nothing. Where did I go? No where far. Did I do anything exciting? No.  Not at all.  I simply had a weekend where there were very few expectations placed on me, we had the house to our selves for the entire weekend and we didn’t have any urgent work to do.  I think it’s been the first weekend we’ve done nothing since we moved out of the rented house in November! I’m telling you, never under estimate the stress of not having your own place and the pure relief of having your own space again.

On Friday night, we just grabbed a Chinese and sat in our new living room, on our really comfortable leather recliners watching the television for the night. 

Saturday, we got up and again, for some reason, completely out of the blue, we turned on the television and watched the audio described version of mission impossible three for a few hours.    That afternoon, I had to go into town to help with the Irish guide dogs “Shades for a Day” fund raising campaign.  I was back home though by about six o’clock.  On Saturday night, I started to sort out my computer / music room up stairs.  You wouldn’t believe the amount of cable I have to connect up when I’m setting up my computer / mixer / sound system etc.  I also had to sort out the cables I don’t use too often so they weren’t just lying in boxes.  I even got energetic by putting the unneeded boxes up into the attic out of the way! Emma helped too!  Routing desks through the cable management system in the new desk is quite difficult and with that many cables it really helps if one person feeds through to the other.  Again though, on Saturday night, we just relaxed with a drink in the house.    OH, I forgot to say, I bet Emma in a game of chess earlier that day too! Hahahahahaha.

ON Sunday, when I finally halled my self out of bed, I had a fabulous unhealthy breakfast and lounged around again for another few hours.  Oh, as well as just lounging, I also finished setting up my computer / music room.  Ok, from now on, I’m just going to call it my room for simplicity.  At around half two, we went out to a place called townly hall. It’s a huge wooded area that is nothing complicated; it’s just natural and simple.  It’s not something you’d do on your own though when you can’t see without really knowing the place.  There are some very sheer drops off some of the tracks so you really need to be careful as if you put a foot wrong, you could take a long tumble down to the river or the road depending on where you fall from. I use to go there quite a lot when I was younger so I was reasonably prepared for the route we took.  We easily walked for about two hours though.  Freddie had a fantastic time!  I really enjoyed him self sniffing trees, running up and down banks, walking through every muck patch he could find and generally being a very silly dog.

Last night then again, we didn’t do anything special.  It was just a night of relaxation in preparation of the week ahead.

I know that sounds very boring and quiet but when you’ve had five months of stress, obligations, bills, conflicting priorities and …. Builders, a quiet weekend is really refreshing. 

IN saying that, I hardly slept last night.  It was too hot!  So, this morning I’m knackered!