House
Both sides, now
Another time lapse vid – this time a view onto the front of the house. This camera is mounted on a pole and gets a bit more battered by the elements (hence the rain drop […]
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House
Time lapse video from a security camera
Last year I setup a python script to run every day at 2pm to grab a still frame from some of my security cameras around the outside of the house. Today I mashed them together […]
Bog
Quick trip to the bog
Before making our way up to Doolin for the weekend, we had a couple of nights in our house on the bog. It was great to see it again, especially since we’d left it all […]
House
Additional bathroom heating options (or lack of)
So the radiator in the bathroom wasn’t really cutting it compared to the heating in the rest of the house. We could make good use of a remote-controlled, wall-mounted forced air heater above the bathroom […]
Bog
Who let the dogs out? Pretty much everyone…
The security cameras aren’t getting a heavy workout of late, beyond dogs roaming from ‘next door’. Every now and then I’ll call them via the camera’s speaker capability, whereupon they run like hell. Hours of […]
General
Bread and avalanches
Ireland’s being going bread-mad – apparently it’s the thing to be worried about running out of in the treacherous weather. There have been articles devoted to baking your own, memes on the internet, etc. Actually, […]
House
The silicon bit – what happened?
So this blog has been about almost everything apart from technology. Due to the various Bad Things that needed putting right, the opportunities to gadget-up the bog house have been few and far between. Clearly […]
House
Have I tiled you lately?
Apologies to Van the Man. The bathroom was the last room to get sorted out. First the flooring tiles, building on the levelling work done at the start of November: Next, the wall tiles: Finally, […]
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Levelling the bathroom floor
Another floor that dropped away for some reason. Concrete and screed to the rescue… you can also see I’ve put a mirror up above the sink, which is cunningly reflecting the shower to confuse matters.
House
Sitting room flooring down
The sitting room floor was a tricky customer – if it were any less of a level playing field, it’d be the US healthcare system. Levelling this involved digging up old concrete where possible, filling […]