Seachain an duine a bhíonn ina thost

This week has been better so far. We had a very productive meeting with the liberation groups yesterday about the Governance Review and have come to a solution that we're all happy with. The articles have been drafted and sent for translation (any changes we come up with at the Nightline meeting on Thursday will have to be submitted as amendments as it wouldn't leave enough time for the articles to be translated) so now we're just working towards the Council and General Meeting where these articles have to be passed.

I've also been eating nice food. I spent much of Sunday cooking, which was very relaxing and has meant that we have several weeks' worth of soup in the freezer. We also have several portions of ragu for making lasagne and shepherd's pie and whatnot, and we've been eating a steak and kidney pie Frodo made over three days. I have all the ingredients to make a chicken curry too, except for the chicken, so that's a project for one of the nights this week.

And the other nice thing was that on Sunday evening I popped around to see Colleen and Sam and their new baby Jack. He is absolutely lovely, with really big dark blue eyes, and they're wonderfully smitten with him. Colleen's obviously getting used to having people come around to coo at Jack because she offered to let me hold him. He was very still and peaceful (apparently he's not normally quite so calm) and really just lovely.

And one final nice thing is that this is not happening in Bangor. Thank goodness for that.