new beginnings

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back-yard, Dublin, job, masters, new beginnings, photography, photos, plants, spring, work, writing

Today is the first day of the second semester for my masters, so I am back to being a student again, even if only for a few hours a week. But this week there is another new beginning – I’m starting a new job tomorrow.

It may be only two days a week (I’m still lecturing after all) but it is a new endeavour with lots of new challenges. Over the next six weeks or so I’ll be writing a user manual for an interesting tech company here in Dublin. I’m quite excited about this, but also a  little nervous. After all I have written guides and a manual in the past but the are of tech is new to me, so I’m hoping I’ll be able to quickly adapt and produce exactly what the company is looking for.

And I spotted some new beginnings in my tiny back yard …  some tiny shoots of (I think) snowdrops have appeared on my windowsill and I can’t wait to watch them bloom. But this also means I need to carve out some time to tidy up my pots and windowsills and invite spring to come along.

brightening up the back-yard

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back-yard, Dublin, gardening, home improvement, masonry paint, painting, plants, sore elbow, tennis elbow

I think I may have a tennis elbow, not that I have ever played any tennis but my right arm/elbow is really quite sore. However instead of improving my non-existent backhand I have been brightening up my miniscule back-yard with white masonry paint and brush.

I really only store my bike in this space but my little office looks out onto it and it is less than inspiring. So since the sun is out and  my lovely neighbour helped me anker a bike-lock to the ground in the front of the house, I decided it was time to change my view.

After a good few hours of painting (it was much harder and took much longer than anticipated, since masonry paint isn’t like other paint), a visit to a garden store and a sore elbow my back-yard is now a much happier place. All I need to perfect my view is a little birdhouse to encourage my winged neighbours to visit now and then.

My tiny yard before

The other unloved corner

And now with a lick of paint and some plants and storage.

Happy pansies