Normal service resumed

So..... two weeks back at Moyhill, the layers (ducks and hens) produced a full complement of eggs (6) today for the first time - guess they are all settled back home.
We have setted into our routines as well and getting on with a long list of jobs preparing for the new growing season.

However the biggest excitement today was the arrival of our two new pigs - Billy and Bruce (the fourth) - see old blogs if you need an explanation. We picked them up this evening and managed to transfer them to their new home without any drama (ish).

Bruce is on the left - slightly larger with a black spot while Billy is staring at the camera. They are 8 weeks old (about 10 kg each ) and spending their first night away from their mother and siblings -  have been over to check on them once already and will probably be back again before I sleep.

Leaving Singapore

With a bit of time to kill on Monday before our overnight flight to London, we visited the Gardens by the Bay - which is probably best described as a botanical theme park - where there were fewer people and the two Biomes were maintained at a very pleasant temperature.

We also had excellent Dim Sum in the fish restaurant.
Then back to the flat - with Sushi - to have a glass of wine and a snack with Jeanette and Debs before Gabriel showed up to take us to the airport.

The flight to London was uneventful - unless you include the fact that I, unwittingly, dropped a chocolate on my seat after dinner and then spent the rest of the flight sitting and laying on it. By the time we got off at Heathrow I had an amusing pattern of dark brown streaks on the seat of my khaki walking trousers - nobody was pressing to close to me in the crush for the shuttle at Terminal 5.

We had a bit of a wait for our connecting flight - during which neither Heathrow Airport or BA dealt with us as we had expected - but eventually arrived at Shannon where June was waiting to collect us and bring us up to date on all the local news on the short drive home.

Finally got home 48 days after we left, 7 flights, 13 beds, 8 boat journeys and 12 Islands. Good to be back and all seems to be fine except for a couple more trees blown over in the February storms.

Hockey Sixes

Luckily Susan's first game was scheduled for a 12.20 start so we had time for a lay-in followed by a leisurely bacon sandwich before we had to be at the SCC to watch the game.

Spent the whole afternoon watching hockey - on grass not that game the Canadians win gold medals for - drinking cold beer, eating Roti Pratha and enjoying the atmosphere.

Unfortunately Susan's team only made it as far as the quarter final but it meant she could then join us for the afternoon in the stands along with Annie, Jude and Ella and Rupert, of course.

Think the last time we were here to watch the sixes was 1998 - even came across a programme from 1997 which included a photo of Linda playing for Valley - before she joined CSC.

Old Habits

Saturday night in Singapore? Or pub night in Mississauga  - have we been here before?

Copious amounts of beer and wine, great food and even better company -finished off with Jameson Signature Reserve.
Linda on the Barocca this morning!