Seachain an duine a bhíonn ina thost

Today we went to Galway (so Ian could go to a back specialist) and I got NEW WELLIES! They're super-cool. I'll take a picture of them next week so I can show everyone. Oh they're so cool. They're quite soft, so you can wear them like normal shoes all the time.

I also found my new favourite brand of shoes. It's quite possible that I'll never buy shoes from anyone else ever again. And now that I've found a website that sells them, I may develop a serious shoe-buying problem. Go look at LetsBuyShoes.com and click on 'Irregular Choice'. Oh they're just so beautiful! I nearly bought a pair today, but they weren't available in my size.

Goldie had to go to the vet yesterday because he developed something called 'hot spot' (I think). It's basically a nasty cut-like infection thingy under his left ear which is apparently quite common in long-haired dogs in hot weather. Luckily, Ian spotted it quite early so it won't take too long to heal. But Goldie was scratching it and reopening the wounds, so he's wearing one of those big plastic collars. When he stands in long grass he looks just like a delicate flower, but he's not impressed. So we got him some yummy sweets today and now he's feeling happier. He just persuaded me to hand-feed him his dogfood. Entirely unnecessary, since he managed to eat it on his own just fine yesterday, but today he was pretending he couldn't, and barking at the bowl, so I fed him. If he had a little finger he'd have me wrapped around it. Poor Pippa was most distressed at being left out, so I fed her some too.

Going to Dublin tomorrow to visit Gran, then to Northern Ireland on Saturday to visit aunt and uncle. Back Monday, stopping by the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Queens to persuade Ian that that's where he wants to study. And also because I want to snoop around. It sounds amazingly cool.

Sam, what kind of bags is it you want? Some kind of special bags or just normal bags?