
Back to life, back to reality…
So we can’t move into the house on the bog yet, and it’s not clear how much it’ll cost to fully sort it out. If the bare minimum got done before the end of September, […]
So we can’t move into the house on the bog yet, and it’s not clear how much it’ll cost to fully sort it out. If the bare minimum got done before the end of September, […]
I realised I’d missed out quite a few days of what we’d been up to. That’s because we’d “joined holiday” with some of V’s family who’d rented a house in Killarney and kindly invited us to […]
We happened to notice while wandering around Glin on Saturday waiting for the cafe to open for breakfast (10am!) that Glin castle had an open day on Sunday. We went along, and found it very […]
We survived the night camping in the Bongo. I didn’t sleep brilliantly due to listening out for noises that might disturb me – not a great strategy. I’d also accidentally left a swiss army knife […]
Bought a slasher today that’s the most practical means of cutting back the rhododendrons and so on that dominate the rear of the cottage. There’s not much point doing anything inside the house beyond clearing out […]
So the builder was a lovely man who spoke at a fair rate sprinkled liberally with swearing and sensible advice. It’s going to take a while to fully tune-in to the language here, but I […]
Well, we did pick up the keys at least. It turns out that over the course of the year since we last saw it the house hasn’t fixed and cleaned itself, which is quite disappointing. The […]
Premium ticket doesn’t appear to get you a pint of Guinness while you wait to board. The world’s gone mad.
Bongo back with shiny new exhaust, rear tyres, fog light and front brakes. Packed half the house into it – a tardis on wheels. Hopefully once we get the new house’s roof fixed we can […]
Following last weekend’s outing in the Bongo, a friend mentioned that the exhaust might need some attention. I took it to a specialist in York, where they showed me the 6cm gap between one part […]
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