New Job!!!!

Ah, sweet success! I have been offered a new job that is a bit closer to the line of work that I want to do (although still not there yet!). I don't want to write too much online about it due to privacy issues, but I am pretty happy about it. It starts in a month's time and is 30 hrs a week, so I will still be keeping an 8hr shift a week at my current job. Looks like that whole thing about me only being able to get an 8hr/week contract really did turn out for the best. It's so funny how that is. I found out mid last week that I got the job, but didn't want to post until I had spoken to my current job about the situation. I interviewed at 9:30am and I found out I had the job by 12:45 - not too shabby, I don't think. Anyway, the post starts in about a month's time and I am really looking forward to it.

If anyone wants to find out more about my new job, chuck me an email and I'll tell you all about it!

For now, have a great day!

St. Bernard's Well

So a few weeks ago my friend Christina and I decided to visit St. Bernard's Well. The construction of the present structure was commissioned in the late 1700s (yep, it's older than Canada) although the well was supposedly originally found by St. Bernard in the 12th century. The well is located very close to Dean's Bridge in Edinburgh and I had often passed it on my walks along the Water of Leith Walkway. It is a very pretty site to behold as you walk along the path and suddenly a beautiful temple-like structure looms up before you. It seems a bit like it should be in the film Pride and Predjudice or something. Anyway, usually it is closed to the public and completely locked up, but the locals had decided to open it up one day and we went for a visit.

Statue on the top floor

The mosaic ceiling

There are two floors - the top being an open air one with a very nice statue in the centre. The bottom floor is where the well actually is. You can still pump water from the well (and of course Christina and I had to try that too) however, you are not advised to drink from it (Christina and I restrained ourselves). The real surprise though was the absoultely magnificent mosaic ceiling which we found in there.

All in all, it was pretty fun to do something a bit more unusual and to explore a new part of the city (and for free!).

President Bush and Climate Change

Here is further evidence that US President Bush just doesn't get the importance or severity of climate change.

His goodbye "joke" to leaders of the G8 summit was, "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter" . . . (click here for source)

I wonder if that got published in the States?