Well, today is St Patrick’s Day, a day of parades, celebration and general cheer in Ireland, and many other countries. Evidence of the imminent party was clear around the country with flags flying, banners out and a host of events advertised. It is our fourth St Patrick’s here in Ireland and each one has been […]
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Happy St Patrick’s Day to you all!
Posted by Jennie Finch on March 17, 2024
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Is it spring yet? Oh, I hope so!
Like most of you, we’ve found this last winter a bit wearing. It’s not been too cold here – nothing like last year when the whole water system froze solid for a week. But it has been stormy, costing us five trees damaged or down in the wood. This is apart from the one damaged […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on March 3, 2024
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To the wood, to the wood!
Despite the continuing atrocious weather a lot of these last few weeks have been spent outdoors. Firstly, we needed to do something about the wood pile. It’s a blessing in these cold winter months but it needs careful handling. Originally almost ten feet high and about six feet deep, we’ve burrowed into it for the […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 18, 2024
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Memories are made of fish (and other things)
This last week we passed four years since the UK officially exited the EU and like many people our lives were never going to be the same again. Unlike a lot of people, we took a rather more drastic turn, leaving our home of almost forty years behind us. There have been a lot of […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 4, 2024
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Thoughts on these past three years
From September to mid January we seem to have a lot of anniversaries. Some more recent than others, some shared and some more private, they all mark steps in our lives. Jacqui has a couple of medical anniversaries for example, having dodged the bullets of cancer and heart attacks in the past years. For some […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on January 21, 2024
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Goodbye to 2023 and here’s to a better 2024
As the year grinds to an ending I offer an apology for my several absences this year. This last month especially I’ve not written anything though a fair amount has happened. Well, I say a heartfelt goodbye to 2023, which ends with a bang – several bangs actually. About six weeks ago I fell backwards […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on January 2, 2024
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Tired, incoherent and still standing. Yeah!
Please forgive me if this episode is a bit incoherent – and maybe a little shorter than usual. It has been a very interesting few weeks culminating in our ‘flu and covid jabs on Friday. We had hoped that after a number of rounds our bodies would have become reconciled to the vaccines but we […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 26, 2023
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Memories are made of this (thank you mother)
A memory from my younger years came back to me this week. I have a lot of memories from childhood, a mixed selection as we all do, but some shine bright – and some really should stay buried. Now, one of our dogs looks like a puppy but she’s actually 16 years old. At that […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on November 12, 2023
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Well, some upgrades are good, if annoying
In this networked and computer driven society one of the most annoying thing is the compulsory upgrade. After years of using IT, way back to the dial-up days, I have always been of the opinion that if something needs constant upgrading it doesn’t work properly anyway. This rather rough rule of thumb applies to many […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on October 30, 2023
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Despite our difficulties we’ve made a breakthrough
Those of you who read the last blog will be aware we have some serious difficulties at the moment. The most pressing is the water situation, of which more later but, despite everything, we have made a breakthrough. When we moved in we had to use the big shed, christened the “Hotel Majestic” as storage. […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on October 8, 2023
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