Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
After a rather fraught few weeks it is nice to have some better news to share with you. Our big problem recently is the breakdown of the ride-on mower. This may seem like an indulgence but with the area we have it makes keeping it in order just about possible. My shoulders are not yet […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/happiness-is-a-working-mower-and-baby-swifts/
Well, it looks as if autumn is here despite the almost total lack of summer this year. We had some fine days though these seemed to coincide with doctor or other unmovable appointments, of course. Still, we are making some progress though it seems a bit slow going at the moment. Some of this is […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/its-a-bit-slow-going-at-the-moment/
Pondering over the last month or so over last night’s dinner we both agreed we love our home. When we were first considering the move we had a short list of what we would like. A very short list actually. We wanted off road parking, one of the growing problems in Saltburn. In fact it […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/love-our-home-but-hate-the-infrastructure/
Something a bit different this week – a blog mainly about writing. In theory the last few years should have been good for writing. It’s been quiet and we are fairly isolated so there’s time and space to focus. Well, space anyway. Anyone who has read some of these posts will know we’ve been pretty […]
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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 […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/one-door-closes/
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 […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/slow-but-steady-progress/
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 […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/hoping-for-a-better-year/
We are well into December now and winter has crept in with all its delightful little quirks. Here in Tipperary we are not immune to the cold – it has been very frosty with ice and freezing fog for most of the last week. We are, however, having a run of small celebrations. December means […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/the-season-for-anniversaries/
I’m sitting at my desk and enjoying a rare sight through the window – the sun is shining. We’ve had rather a lot of rain over the past few weeks, as I think a lot of you have. Here it has veered from long, sullen downpours to bursts of hail mixed with sudden bright spots. […]
https://www.jenniefinch.me.uk/a-strange-mixed-fortnight/
