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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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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Firstly apologies for the late blog entry. This was due to another spell of drain trouble – “second verse, same as the first”. The fatberg broke down a little when I was removing it and some got washed back into the kitchen outlet. This meant all the washing up water flooded over the back patio, […]
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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 […]
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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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