Sorry the updates have been so sporadic over the last fortnight but with the new job things have been a little bit all over the shop and I literally haven’t had the time to share any thoughts.

However, I thought this was worth linking to: my mate Pete turns out to be one of the major heroes at the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse.

Peter comes from Ballyshannon in Donegal and is working in Minneapolis on a J1 visa for the summer as a light mechanic in a petrol station near the bridge.

“We first heard a rumble and just thought it was thunder,” Peter said today. “Then we heard fire engines and didn’t think much of that either. I looked down the highway - in the wrong direction as it turned out - and didn’t see anything going on, but then someone shouted: ‘The bridge has collapsed!’”Peter and his co-workers shut up the petrol station, loaded a pick-up truck with ice and filled it with bottled water, Powerade energy drinks and Coke and rushed to the scene to hand it out to rescue workers.

You can read more here.