Peter, I can see your house from here.......

Ahh that old chestnut came back yesterday - Easter Saturday. A joke told in a far different fashion to when I heard it being told in Ireland. A one liner and right to the point here, where at home it would take at least good 10 minutes to build up to the delivery of the punchline. Blasphemous of course, but I mean, he was coming back to life on Sunday??

Stef, we have come a long long way in the world of medicine from when you had to "swallow a plastic bag" to have a gastroscopy. My way sounds so much better. And means I couldn't go to work either.

We'll get the Aibhe update in early. She's great. Fantastic. Sleeping like a champ. Eating (drinking?) like a bigger champ. She even had her first trip to the coast yesterday and, apart from a 1 hour tantrum in the Sheraton while the girls had lunch (I wasn't there but I certainly believe it), she appeared to enjoy her day. Meanwhile, Alex and I and a couple of other lads played the Hyatt Palm Springs course. Only 29 degrees yesterday, so didn't get too burned. The swim in the pool afterwards cooled us down a bit. So how's Spring?

All in all, things going along over here. Have been to Sydney and Melbourne with work on day trips which sounds all very cool but is actually pretty knackering. That said, for a low cost airline, Virgin Blue are soooooooooooooooo different to Ryanair. They're young, polite and friendly. And ALWAYS on time. And they still have the window shutter thingy's on the plane. Even met little Ms Molly Mitchell in Sydney (and her parents of course, she wasn't out on her own yet, they said they'd wait till she was at least 8 weeks before she could do that). Saw the new Spencer St station in Melbourne - very funky.

As most of you probably now know, we shall be home in June and of course Alissa has EVERYTHING pretty much under control from an organisation perspective. Here's hoping Aibhe will enjoy her first trip to Dad's hometown. Am sure we'll see most of yis all then - hopefully K & A will have had Jake's brother/sister so we can all share a pint of Guinness/Bulmers. Am also sure I'll drop another note and picture or two (in moderation!!) in here before then.