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I’ve been himming and hawing about whether I should write this post or not – the last time I opened my mouth to stand up for girl bloggers (choosing of categories for the las Irish Blog Awards) I was shouted down quite vociferously! But I think I can get away with this one…. K8 recently [...]
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 [...]
If you’re not familiar with the letters and numbers above, they are US movie classifications. Via the Limerick Blogger this week is a little service from Mingle2 (a dating service I believe) that looks at your blog, website or My Space page and then gives it an appropriate rating based on the words used within. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Firstly, and most importantly the photos are up here (even though I didn’t manage to get any of Tom dancing, and missed that as I had to leave early…). There’s even a photo of TwentyMajor in there, but I’m not saying which one! A great night was had by all, even if Grannymar didn’t win. [...]
It’s your last chance to vote in the Irish Blog Awards! Voting closes at 5pm today (Ireland time). I’ve been nominated in the Best Newcomer category, but more importantly – Grannymar (my Mum) has been nominated for Best Podcaster and also for Best Podcast for ‘The Favour’ on her blog ‘Oldbones’. So please head over and vote [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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