Before i start to give out about having to work for a living and all that, let me just say that my first day back, tuesday the 3rd of january, it was the most beautiful frosty foggy winter morning. I was crossing the pedestrian bridge by the IFSC and had to stop the view was so gorgeous. It was like a modern version of a Turner painting. (A bit like this, see?) I like Turner a lot, I went with Fiona and her mum a couple of years ago to a great exhibition of his work in the National Gallery on Merrion Square.
(forgot to say before - that boat is the restored famine ship the 'Jeanie Johnston' that lives in New Ross, Wexford usually. And I took that photo with my camera phone - thanks for the comments!)
Seriously though, this working lark, I'm not sure it's for me. Why on earth did I return to my old job - I'm not as young as I used to be - I forgot I have to stand up almost all day for 9 hours! ;) I'm knackered, my back hurts, I was in my pyjama's at 830 tonight. I wish Mark would start earning millions quick-smart so I could be a lady of leisure again. Ah no, much as it was lovely to doss about in Wexford and attend the odd Christmassy soiree in Dublin, I have to say it's not so bad to be back to a little bit of a routine - except the getting up at 7am. First on the list after my long awaited paycheque arrives is a new (second-hand) bike, I don't like the ol' bus in the morning, especially since once I get to town, it's still a 20 minute walk to work.
'Ricky Gervais meets Larry David' is on in a while I am very excited and must now prepare myself for that. later.
5 comments:
Hey Jill, excellent image of the morning you captured that moment beautifully....I agree very turneresque, but you are now the dublin equiv so we need more of these light studies from you ... alas, this is another reason why I miss living in the city all the light in D15 country is broken up by same shape houses and crooked trees nothing interesting for the lens....by the time i would get to town the light is gone... thanks for sharing this vista..
J
awesome picture - as good as anything from 'daily dose of imagery'.
you get up at 7am? that's sleeping in to me!! quit yer bellyachin'!!
Ooh that is a mighty pretty picture. I do like Jeanie, she's a good-looking one.
The Larry David interview was great wasn't it? Very interesting.
was a 'famine ship' one of the ships used to transport folks abroad during the famine, or did it have some other function?
http://www.jeaniejohnston.ie/home.asp?id=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_ship
just for famines i think - they were also known as coffin ships, cos of all the bodies on them by the end of the line. this one did loadsa runs to canada, it was built in quebec. i have 2 books about all that malarkey (jeanie johnston & irish going to canada during the famine) but have yet to read them. oops.
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