Year: 2016

While reading some stories produced by students, I came up with the idea for an exciting new game show format – a televised weekly short story competition.  Bear with me on this. The cameras could follow […]

We went to Ballybunion yesterday to blow the cobwebs away.  If only we could have taken half the contents of the rental property with us – they’re in dire need of it too. It was […]

Some time has passed once more, and I don’t have a load of things to show for it.  I went to an interview for a contract role in Limerick.  It went well, and I’m still […]

We had an entertaining time when visiting the post office (run by Ireland’s commercial organisation An Post) the other day.  One thing that the keen observer might note when visiting our rental property is the […]

We did indeed move into the big mad house on Monday.  It’s taken a few days to sort everything out – especially the cobwebs.  The place has a lot of the previous owner’s things still […]

My last confession was 11 days ago and these are my sins: Looks like the mad big house rental thing is a goer, and we’ll hopefully pick up the keys on Monday. We’re now on […]

… try to rent a large 19th century townhouse with castle views.  Let’s see how this one goes… surely if we attempt enough random manoeuvres one of them will pay off?

Great day at the beach.  Journey home was less good however, as I got a call and it turns out that the cottage we were planning on renting for 6 months has fallen through.  Plan […]