General
A hawk flaps its wings…
The latest efforts from the US to move us smoothly into WW3 have disturbing knock-on effects around the world, some very close to the bog in fact. The dystopian world in which we now live, […]
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 […]
Bog
It’s so easy from above / you can really see it all…
Ben Folds lyric there, just for a change. The Google maps satellite view of the bog got updated this year – it’s now several years on from the previous version, and shows signs that we’ve […]
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 […]
Holiday
Lahinch sunset
On the journey back from Doolin we detoured via Lahinch (a nearby holiday town) in time to catch the sunset. I visited it back in 2003 on my first trip to Ireland, and it hasn’t […]
Holiday
Doolin writers’ weekend
Just back from a fantastic weekend of drinking and listening to people talk about writing. If I’m honest, the writing part was peripheral to some of the other activities for me, although I found Sinéad Gleeson‘s […]
General
August and everything after
Well… September, technically, but that wouldn’t match the title of one of my favourite albums. That break in posting makes my previous efforts at neglect look like mere blips. Quick summary of what’s happened since […]
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, […]