Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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It’s been one of those weeks this week. You know the sort. Stupid little things don’t work. Bigger things start to really bug you. It’s cloudy and showery outside and grey all around. The sort of week where you want to revert to childhood, swing on a chair and kick the table until your mother […]
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After the past overly stressful (and very unwelcome) excitement of the last month we are on the road back to “normal”. Whatever that might be in these strange times. We are both still very tired as recent events have taken most of our energy but life does not stand still. In fact here in Ireland […]
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Having come from the North East of England we are used to relatively short summers but autumn seems to come early in Ireland. After the blazing, uncomfortably hot days in the middle of summer it turned cooler. This was most welcome, to be honest. We were not properly set up for extreme weather and spent […]
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“Every day is a school day” is something I hear a lot in Ireland. It startled me the first time but I think it shows how open many people here are to hearing new things. Many adults I have known don’t like to acknowledge they don’t know something. Perhaps they feel it is demeaning or […]
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You may wonder what the films “Apollo 13” and “Titanic” have in common with our life here. Well, both are referenced on a daily basis as we wrestle the house into order. It has been a very busy and eventful year so far, perhaps too busy on reflection. We began with a list of things […]
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First an apology for the lateness of this episode – but I do have a note to excuse this tardiness. This last week has been interesting – a bit more interesting than we wanted, to be honest. For the past month Jacqui has had recurring attacks of breathlessness that we had attributed to asthma. Late-onset […]
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I began this week thinking there would be no news for the blog but it seems I was wrong. First I would like to share some writing news with you all. The fifth book in the “Alex Hastings” series is due out next year though the actual publication date depends on a lot of things […]
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