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St Stephen’s Day viewing

Television today has been pretty lousy and it doesn’t look like it is going to get any better. To get around this, there are DVDs.
Today’s viewing, not shown by any television channel this side of the Shannon, included The Dish. It is an absolutely wonderful movie about Parkes Observatory in Australia, which provided most of [...]

Things I know today that I didn’t know yesterday

Most of this year I have been discovering things about houses I don’t want to live in. Today, I decided finally, I didn’t want to live in this one either. Mainly it relates to the cupboard under the stairs which has the hoover in it. And which is a useless shape of a hole to [...]

Some reasons for the radio silence.

Kevin left a note the other day pointing out I hadn’t posted here in a while. I’m sorry. All the sites have been left to their own devices. I have just been rather busy.
I did actually start MST121 with the Open University on my path to a degree in maths and statistics. So far I [...]

Advice for landlords, estate agents, house sellers.

So you want to flog your property on the sales or rental market and have decided to advertise it online.
Here are some hints to make things more effective:

Pixellated photographs give a very bad impression. It says “This person is not professional”. It warns me not to bother looking.
If you load 19 photographs to daft, myhome [...]

Living in Ireland is painful sometimes.

My local TD, or one of them, lives nearby so I regularly get a leaflet drop from him. He’s in the Labour Party, as it happens, and he’s a shiny new TD.
Anyway, today’s leaflet drop relates to jobs initiatives and for one reason and another, it irritates me.
Firstly, some time ago, the government announced a [...]

Once upon a time

this was growing in my garden. In fact, it stopped growing in my garden today.
It was very lovely by the way. I really, really liked it.

Newquay…travel advisory

You’ll find those lovely hoodies in the Animal shop as far as I remember. I can’t remember what street it was on but it’s on the way towards Fistral as far as I remember.
So.
I was in Newquay recently. If you’re a Sky Television fan or you read any of the more self-righteous newspapers in the [...]

Oh, on a gardening update

My strawberries – all eight of them – still aren’t ready to harvest.

The past is just a place we cannot visit.

I was at Take That in Croke Park tonight. Look, it’s still 19 June for me, regardless of what the clock says. Anyway. I am not a Take That fan. I was an alternative rock and folk fan when they hit the big time first and I was utterly scathing about pop music. But for [...]

Green fingers.

I grew these.
I am very happy about this. They are still there, stilll fighting their way, still giving me hope. I love them.
Please please let them not ripen till I get back from my holidays on Monday.