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Life Update - April 2021

The two most important days of your life
are the day you are born 
and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain


 Hello and welcome to another scintillating week of The Art of Caesura!

Every so often I like to inject a bit of the "life" into my "Happy blog of Life and Hobbies in the South West of Ireland". Previously I would have used some of these non-miniature-based posts to talk about the various hikes we would be going on. But between constant lock-downs, not being able to travel beyond 5km from our homes for the past eternity, as well as having a young child, we haven't really been going on many hikes. 

So I though I would take a moment just to give you a peek behind the curtain at what's going on in the Life of Caesura!

If you can believe it, my daughter, Saoirse, is now 21 months old!


My gorgeous wife is pregnant with our second child (and is already over half way through her pregnancy)! 


In addition to my regular job, I have taken on a lecturing position at the University of Limerick and have just finished my second semester of that. Hugely enjoyable!


My wife and I are both key workers and our jobs have only become exponentially more hectic through the pandemic. But, never ones to cower in the face of adversity, we have also chosen this moment to buy a house!


So it truly is all happening!

I hope your lives are a bit calmer, or at least as joyous as ours!

See you next week on The Art of Caesura!


Reading: The Warcry Rulebook
(Trying to) watch: Mortal Kombat 2021


Next Week:

Don't read too much into it...

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