Is there Life to England Yet?

Greetings! B & B intended to never post on this blog again. It's been 9 months since we did so and about 280 days since we left Manchester and arrived home on a very cold day in December. So why are we posting here now? Originally, the purpose of this blog was to keep people informed of our adventures in England (and oh what adventures they were - getting a telephone, the multiple mistaken trains to York, the briefcase bartender, the Glasgow bombing, the flooding, the trips to Dublin, Achill, Moffat, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, the Whiskey Trail, London, Plymouth, Paris, etc.). But a funny thing happened on our way to staying in Canada forever: we miss England. Oh sure, there is lots not to miss - the crowds, the rain, the expense, the grimness (Charles Dickens was right, Leeds can be the most wretched city in England). But of all the things that we miss in England, it is the opportunity for BMD to work at her dream job that is the biggest. When we started the PHD idiossey we didn't think her options in Canada would be as limited as they now appear to be. So something has to give.

So the purpose of the blog has evolved. Now, the blog will serve as a record of our thoughts and impressions as BMD winds her way through the final stage of the PHD process - the dreaded writing of the thesis. Hopefully, when the time comes to make The Big Decision, what we have written here will help us. If all goes according to plan, it's 280 days until we'll need to decide. Decision '09, let's call it.

As of today, there are Midwifery professorships advertised at the following universities Ireland and the UK: Dublin, Dundee, East Anglia, Canterbury, Surrey, Bournemouth and Southampton.

Yikes, that's a lot of opportunity.