Bog
Gallery of bog house taken 28/01/2017
We thought we’d go along and check progress, as we’re due to give notice to our landlord that we’ll be moving out in a month’s time. The builder is confident that we’ll be able to […]
General
AddressPal works!
I got an email this morning letting me know that the parcel I’d had sent to St. Albans in the UK (which arrived there on Monday) had made it to my nearest post office in […]
Bog
New year’s resolution clearly wasn’t to keep my blog up to date
Progress continued on the bog house. The last time I saw it before Christmas, it was full of rubble and in an utter state. It reminded me of when we first met the builder and […]
Bongo
And I will try-y-y-y to fix you…
The Bongo has been repaired. It was as simple as paying an extortionate amount of money for a second-hand fuel pump, having it shipped over to Ireland to a mechanic, then paying them an only-slightly-less […]
House
“New” kitchen arrival
Earlier in the week we looked at a kitchen that someone was selling via DoneDeal (it’s a classified advert website that’s very popular in Ireland). The sellers were a really nice couple from Gdansk and […]
Bongo
The Bongo is sick
Following a week of it not wanting to set off first thing in the morning (I’d assumed it was in sympathy with me, or down to the cold weather), the Bongo became progressively more ill. […]
House
Further evidence of proof by assertion’s flaws…
“It’s not a cold house”. Yes, my crazed landlord, it is. Or rather, when it’s cold outside, it’s also cold inside. I know it’s been one of those years that has shown a callous disregard […]
General
Revenge of the Treaty City
Limerick is known as the Treaty City due to stuff that happened a long time ago that was no one’s fault really. That said, I do think that some payback may have occurred today at the […]
Bog
Stop press: builder thinking about starting work sometime next week maybe
Hopefully a more accurate headline than many we’ve seen of late, but not holding our breath on that one. We’ve whittled down our list of things for the builder to do: Main roof replacement. Kitchen […]
Bog
Wow – over a month since my last post…
…. since then, things have been pretty busy. The best event was my mum and dad coming over to visit for a week – their first trip to Ireland and the sun mostly shone. Since […]