I’ve been a little remiss in my blogging of late, chilling a lot, catching up with old friends....
Geraldine (a Dutch Aussie from melbourne) I’d not seen for about 20 yrs, so there was plenty of catching up and swapping stories. In that time she’d married an Irishman, surnamed OReilly, who washed dishes in an Irish pub in NYC as an immigrant and ended up owning a few himself....
It was great to share a little of her busy life in Port Washington.... 2 teenage kids, four dogs, 2 inside cats, 2 outside cats, a galah called Aussie and a cockateel add lots of life and colour...and there’s daughter Ashley’s beautiful (and huge) horse Orion, stabled 20 mins away, which has to be ridden and groomed and jumped most days. We shopped too for Ashley’s prom dress.... quintessential Long Island America...
On the Sunday caught up with Tuppy and Bob Nicholson, teachers from Brisbane who now consult in education in NYC. The city put on perfect sunshine for a stroll around Brooklyn Botanical Gardens for the gorgeous cherry blossom festival....lunch in Greenwich Village, a stroll through the shops, and a home cooked roast chicken in their Manhattan apartment overlooking the Circle Line ferries rounded out a perfect day...
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