Question - when is a holiday not a holiday?
Answer - when a librarian brings her work with her.

With Jim finished de-stressing us with wellbeing classes and a re-vamped computer system in the library and Linda returned from New Orleans and ready to wreck it, it was definitely time for me to book somewhere, anywhere, and to run away from the library for two weeks.

I dithered about booking this year. I’m not sure why, and no, despite Linda’s insinuations, it was not because I hadn’t been able to get Alex to come with me. He was saving up leave for that family wedding and was far too busy training for his cox-less fours race in the county regatta anyhow.

Jim suggested I check out the Irish Landmark Trust when I said it was hard to find small places to stay. He said t...

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