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It’s been another week without posts, mainly because I was working on moving Mum’s blog over to a self-hosted platform and transferring her from Blogger to WordPress. The main reason was her love of podcasting – while there are a lot of services out there that offer free podcast hosting, such as Evoca, they [...]
Oh God, I’ve been meaning and promising to post this for ages, and now that the wedding is out of the way I no longer have an excuse! Our wedding was originally planned for 120 people, but as a lot of them were from overseas we ended up with 85 at the ceremony and meal. [...]
I’ve had various drafts of this post floating around my head for a while, but I was pushed into action this week by a post by Flirtysomething (which has since been removed) – she linked to an article in the Sindo and asked if it was similar to one of her blog posts. Well, [...]
The wonderful K8 the GR8 over at cackaloo.com sent me this meme over a month ago now, but I’ve been so busy that I’ve let it slip until now… Sorry K8! 1. What period of history would you most like to have lived in and why? It’s a hard choice, maybe the sixties for the sex, [...]
First, background: Over the last few years grannymar has been worried by the introduction of water charges/rates in Northern Ireland in 07/08. The plan was not to install water meters and she would have ended up being charged as much as a family of four! Today she sent a mail with some good [...]
My mum, grannymar, has uploaded a wonderful couple of emotional podcasts over at her site. She talks about ‘Our John’ and the joys and struggles that he encountered during his turbulent life. I cried, a lot, while listening to these. For me, this is why I wanted to get her into blogging/podcasting in the first place. [...]
When I was talking to Martine at the weekend she was speaking about the heatwave that France is facing at this time… it’s not as bad as the one during 2003, but still pretty severe all the same… I was thinking today about the differences in language and how we describe this period of [...]
That was a good weekend, even if it did pass too quickly! We got all the household stuff out of the way in the morning as George had his assessment at the gym on Sat afternoon – his workouts are going really well, as are mine and we’re both building up more endurance and stamina – [...]
from the story of my holiday, anyway… I was ranting at G today about Mary Harney and he was sick of hearing me go on so he told me to “Blog It”, which now seems to be the house standard response to a rant you don’t want to hear! We were talking about the smoking ban over [...]
Third day of the holidays and my first blog from George’s PDA phone. It’s wierd typing on these teeny keys, feels almost like texting instead of typing… Today was a great day, we woke up late and started planning our week off. tomorrow we are going to look at an apartment in the morning and [...]
Yup, it’s finally time for that summer holiday that my body and brain have been screaming for during the past few months! G and I both have a week off work and boy do we need it. So today is the first day and I started by going for a nice massage to get me [...]
Time passes, stuff happens, I am lazy, but so what! So what has happened in the last couple of months? After the frenchies left, we had a mad dash down to Sligo for my cousin Aoife’s wedding to Damien. Great fun was had by all, I have to say that when the Molonys and the Ellards [...]
It’s been another week since I last posted, this is not going as well as I thought! Things have just really ramped up in the last week and I don’t think that it’s going to get much better throughout July. Quite a few things on over the next weeks, including the visit of Anne and [...]
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