Here we are, a year round and our first Christmas in our own house in Ireland. I don’t know about you but we had a very happy day. Last year Jacqui scrambled and juggled and somehow made a special time for us. This year we had a bit more time and a bit more space. […]
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All posts for the year 2021
Hoping you had a very Happy Christmas
Posted by Jennie Finch on December 26, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/hoping-you-had-a-very-happy-christmas/
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose…
Life is a series of ups and downs and the best we can hope for is it evens out in the end. Take this last week for example. A lot has been going on and there were mixed results. Some we won, some we lost and at least one outcome managed to be both at […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on December 19, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/sometimes-you-win-sometimes-you-lose/
Another anniversary – and what a year
I said last week this is the time of anniversaries for us and here is another. We landed in Ireland a year ago. It is hard to believe sometimes, looking back. Firstly that a whole year has passed since we packed up and headed for an unknown future. Secondly that we have done so much […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on December 12, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/another-anniversary-and-what-a-year/
A week of surprises, mainly happy ones
Life has a way of surprising us all and this week did not turn out as expected. Our grand hopes for the final stages of the building work came to nothing. Absolutely nothing as our joiner was pinged as a close contact for Covid and had to isolate. No floor then, and no presses either. […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on December 5, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/a-week-of-surprises/
This week, a very rubbish post
I think it is obvious that life here in Ireland is very different from life in the UK. Whilst some things stay the same – lots of (almost) familiar forms, daylight saving time, TV licences – the basic structure is very different. For the first time we are personally responsible for most of our services. […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 28, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/a-very-rubbish-post/
Living in “The Wind in the Willows”
“The Wind in the Willows” was one of my favourite childhood books and now we seem to be living in it. This week has seen radical changes in the land around the house. Fergus the tree surgeon arrived on Wednesday with some frightening machinery and along with Tom and Robbie set to, making the road […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 21, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/living-in-the-wind-in-the-willows/
This weekend we got hopelessly lost
First an explanation into why I am a day late with this week’s blog. We went to get another vital part of the grooming room and got hopelessly lost. We headed into County Cork using the main roads but around one town there were diversions and road works. Anxious to avoid a trip into Cork […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 15, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/we-got-hopelessly-lost/
What a difference a day makes – and two lovely men.
We are slowly chipping away at all the stuff that needs doing and are surprised at the end of each week at how much we have managed to do. This week we had some help, in the form of Will and Anthony, two of Derek Madden’s “Merry Men”. They were the crew who helped us […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 7, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/
Travelling hopefully through the house dominoes
We have made some progress here this week. Several people have contacted us about the many jobs we need doing and our floor and joinery man came to measure up. We are hoping to have a floor down in the grooming room soon and then can tackle the dominoes. Floor down means the freezer, washing […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on October 31, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/travelling-hopefully-through-the-house-dominoes/
A week of miscellany – but better than the last one
This week we were expecting a fairly quiet time but life does throw a lot of stuff at you, doesn’t it? We had a few things we had to do, chiefly sort the damn bins and get to the hospital in Limerick. There was a delivery to be organised and we hoped there might be […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on October 24, 2021
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/a-week-of-miscellany/