Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
This has been a very busy and rather tiring fortnight. We had planned to keep most of the first week free as we had booked a mini-digger but things didn’t quite work out as planned. The digger arrived along with a very patient and helpful man who showed us the basics. It was called a […]
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There is a popular misconception that it always rains in Ireland. Certainly there are some months of the year when this seems to be true. Days of overcast skies, drizzle or the occasional torrential downpour and endless mud can dampen the spirit. However it may rain most days in Ireland but not everywhere. An occasional […]
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This last fortnight there has been a sense of one door closing behind me. A lot of this has to do with writing as well as events in the UK leaving me with a feeling of – not helplessness but certainly being limited in what I can do. Several people we care about have suffered […]
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Today, April 16th 2023, is a beautiful day after several weeks of rain, cloudy skies and strong winds. It is also exactly forty years since Jacqui and I met, in a discotheque in east London. Yes, I really am that old, and who goes to a disco now? Or even calls them that? Forty years […]
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This has been a rather odd few weeks with some fairly frantic activity mixed with slow periods of waiting, perfect for reflecting on life. Sometimes the delays in events can be infuriating and I have to speak sternly to myself. Life is generally lived at a slower pace here in Tipperary and there is a […]
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We have spent a lot of the last few weeks watching and waiting for things to happen, or change. No sooner had I posted the last blog than the (hopefully) last of the winter storms swept through Ireland. It is generally much milder here than in northern England but we woke to snow – real […]
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Hooray – February is finally over! Universally loathed as a “beastly month”, the arrival of March suggests Spring is just around the corner. We will be very happy to see that as at present we have almost ground to a standstill on some important jobs. The most pressing is the roof to the kitchen. This […]
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I’ve been reminded these past weeks of one of those brilliant one-liners from a film. In the movie “Carrington”, the title character is warned against getting involved with the critic and writer Lytton Strachey. “Dora dearest, he’s a terrible old queen!” says a friend, in much less PC times. “Yes,” replies Carrington, “But there’s always […]
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The seasons are rolling around again and it is one day shy of our initial move into this little house. As we begin our third year here we can reflect on all we have done – and all that has happened. It seems fair to say there have been a few surprises along this journey. […]
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Well, January has certainly shown its teeth here in Ireland and I think the same – if not worse – in the UK. In the last few weeks we’ve had the big freeze, complete with frozen pipes and no water before Christmas. This was followed by some torrential rain and a leaky roof. In my […]
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