I am going to make an effort to blog so that family and friends can know a little about what is happening with me. Right now, I want to just share news. Maybe later I will try write entertaining anecdotes.
As you know if you are following the news, the British Isles are experiencing an unusually cold, snowy, icy winter. Those conditions mean when I arrived in Belfast last Friday, the long lane to Kilcranny House was iced over. Also, the freezing temperatures over the holidays, left the house with some frozen pipes and a boiler on the fritz.
Many kind people, friends of Kilcranny, are making sure I am well cared for. Some of these are member of the management committe. Others are people who have other connections to the Kilcranny network. And Lisa, a current volunteer, also checks in with me and keeps me informed.
After spending two nights in Colraine with Gillian, I am now in Portrush, with Smita. I am enjoying good, long walks in the morning, today's along the windy shoreline in Portrush including the beach that attracts a crowd in the summer. Only the seagulls greeted me this morning.
I don't set out until nearly 8:30 when it is daylight. Short days now. It will begin to get dark around 4:30.
I am taking each day as it comes. No one can make promises or even good predictions about when we can get safely to the house and have heat and running water.
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