September approacheth

I'm looking at the time and realising that you'd probably never guess that I have an early start tomorrow. Taxi at 7am to get to the airport to check in for an 8.40am flight. Urgh, I thought I'd learnt not to go for early flights again. Annoyingly as well, the earliest bus into Oxford isn't for two and a half hours after I land, so I'll be hanging around the wonderful London Luton Airport. Fun.

Anyway, it shall be a flying visit to Oxford as I take time to resubmit my dissertation, then off to Bristol lunchtime Monday, ready for work to begin afresh on Wednesday. The nerves are starting to build again, it feels so long since I last taught (possibly because it is - mid-June if my memory serves me) and now I'm a "proper" teacher, responsible for classes and stuff. Eek.

Right, I think bed is in order, it's looking a long day tomorrow...

Northern Irish geography can be difficult

A great comment came up on BBC Radio Ulster. At the end of last week there was quite heavy rain causing significant flooding. Thankfully, Radio Ulster was around to pass on phoned in travel advice on how to avoid the flooded areas:

"I've been told there's heavy flooding in the area between Warrenpoint and Omeath, so be careful if you are travelling in that area,"

The comment from many further people phoning in was something like:

"Yep, it's called Carlingford Lough..."

This narrowly beat Hugo Duncan's comment about a tagline for Newry City (in line with "New York, New York, so good they named it twice" or "See Naples and die"):

"See Newry and Mourne"

Possibly a little local for general consumption, but made me smile...

It's all about breakfast...

This morning I had a couple of rounds of wheaten bread followed by a piece of fruit soda. With coffee.

This may not mean much, but I think I'm nearly home... :)