We have a kitchen!
We have heating!!
We have plumbing!!!
We have a working loo!!!!
We have quotes from removal people :(
We have an Xmas tree in the new house and a realistic chance of being there by the 25th*!!!!!!*

What sums up my emotions?
silent monks

Click to view

thanks gillo!

My Radio 4 addiction of choice is back serving up new episodes of The Now Show and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Oh god I needed a laugh. Not only has the kitchen come home to roost this week but the builder has decided he wants paying this week and the roofers on Monday fancied cash. I think the bank thinks I am being blackmailed. The first teller I ( Read more... )

Well the new house is not yet inhabitable, and in fact due to a few factors beyond our control we seem to have slipped backwards rather than advanced at all this last fortnight. Still, by the end of this week we will have a nice warm new bathroom and by the end of next a kitchen (the cost of which was rather like an arrow in the chest actually - ( Read more... )

irishkate has sent me a link to a picture of our favourite playground ( Read more... )

Damn! Meant to post this earlier but the gorgeous Terry had a good interview on Irish Radio last weekend and the interview is available on http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/weekend-blend/terry-pratchett/ to listen. It will probably be up until ( Read more... )

The Westboro Baptists were big in the news last year with their 'God Hates Ireland' website (homosexuals in the Senate apparently = major smiting). But in the space of twelve months we have had our economy devastated, our football team denied a chance to go to the World cup because of a handball that makes Maradonna's 'Hand of God' look the picture ( Read more... )

Have just been reminded - by Radio 4's The News Quiz of all things - of an amazing sight we saw on Sunday afternoon. We were walking home and crossing the river the way we usually do. As has been the case for the last 7 or so winters, two juvenile cormorants have taken up winter quarters on these lower reaches of the Lee (all a bit industrial for ( Read more... )

Got blown home today. There are gusts of wind like fists thumping round the streets. Some were strong enough to push the car sideways! I hate that feeling. It is stripping the trees of their lovely golden leaves on our street and swirling them round as telltales in mini tornadoes. Good day to not be in the park I think. Came home from picking up DD ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there have experience dealing with Night Terrors, especially with or as a child? DD is having fairly regular attacks of them, usually within 15 mins of first falling asleep. We are not getting much in the way of help here except for the advice to 'make the bedroom safe for her' because she tends to run out of the room looking for us ( Read more... )

House driving me inexorably and none too slowly round the frigging bend. Plumber B has fecked up bigtime and quoted us a price for fitting wood burners that is almost exactly 50% of the 'real' price so must now find a way to pull 2000 euro out of my butt as have passed the point of no return really for reinstating a plain fireplace. Arsehole! ( Read more... )