They say every day's a gift, but why does it have to be a pair of socks?
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1y ago
 Hello! Increasingly now when I get the time to sit down and write, I get a little bit stuck on how to start. Sometimes I can't understand how I used to be able to publish a new post on here every couple of days? I must have had a lot more to say in those days, or maybe just a less effective filter. Since I last wrote, things have been pretty good, if a little quiet. Nic and I spent a couple of days in Paris at the end of June, which was lovely. Our visit coincided with our friend Christine being there on holiday with her mum and some of her friends, which meant we were able to spend some ..read more
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Well, it was Friday night last week. It'll be Friday night next week and every week until we're dead. And even then, the whole rotten business will go on and on and on.
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1y ago
Hello again! I'm getting slowly back into the habit of blogging semi-frequently, leaving it only months at a time between posts rather than actual years. Progress, eh? I keep hearing that blogging is dead and perhaps it is. I certainly don't think that there are more than about five people still reading here (although hello to the five of you: I am grateful you're still here!) but sure, instagram has become unusable and I won't make reels so it's nice to have a place where I can just write down what I'm thinking, even if it is mostly nonsense. Anyway, I've been having good craic here since my ..read more
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Don’t play mind checkers with me, man. I’m not in the mood.
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2y ago
Hello! As my eight-year-old nephew would say, WHAT'S POPPIN?? (He really does say that, and it makes me laugh every time I think about it.) It's been a little while since I last had any motivation to write, but sure that's how it goes.  Things have been pretty good! One of the most noticeable life improvements since we moved is that the pace of life is very different. This is largely due to our jobs, which are far less stressful than what either of us had been doing in England, but it's also that even in the city, the pace of life here is generally a little more gentle. It's one of the ch ..read more
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There’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.
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2y ago
 Hello!! Larry David says that it's too late to say Happy New Year, but... Happy New Year! I mean he has a point, to be fair.  Anyway I hope your entry into 2022 hasn't been too bad. Nic and I had a very restful and lovely break over Christmas, and we managed to stay safe and healthy which felt somewhat like winning the lottery, honestly. Travelling via train to the north seemed like a bad idea so we had a very quiet break at home and it was lovely. I was very happy to spend our first Christmas in Dublin (and my first in Ireland for about 8 years) at home watching films and knitti ..read more
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But the truth is, I'm not going to get wine of any temperature in prison. There are no fine wines in prison.
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2y ago
Hello! It's been a little while, so what is UP?! Things have been pretty good. We have had an extremely beautiful autumn and beginning of winter in Dublin (in Ireland, winter starts in November): Our local park looking gorgeous in the sunshine I guess we're still in a bit of a honeymoon period or whatever, but it's been lovely to be able to continue to explore the city. It only really started to get cold last week so we were very spoiled with the lovely weather.  The Grand Canal in October My friend Ellen and her family visited at the end of October, which was the first time any of ..read more
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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.
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2y ago
 Hello! Happy autumn, I guess!  For the first time in a very long time - maybe ever, in fact - I find myself not actively hating the onset of autumn and winter. I think it might be to do with the fact that I now live in a home that has central heating (our flat in Leamington was brutally cold in winter as the only heating was from two ancient storage heaters and all the windows were single-glazed and draughty) but it's probably some sort of autumnal denial because we have been enjoying some unseasonably warm weather recently. Since I last blogged, life has continued to shift in inte ..read more
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You know, we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilised way!
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2y ago
Dia daoibh, a chairde! Conas atá sibh? Yes, I live in Ireland these so I'm going to be speaking Irish to you all now, lol. No, not really. But one of the things I have been enjoying the most about living in Ireland again is seeing the Irish language everywhere: something you might not know about me is that I speak Irish, having learned it at school, and although I am very rusty after a fair few years living in England, I am picking it back up by being surrounded by it once again and that is a lovely feeling. I am taking some Irish lessons online and am looking for some in-person lessons to sta ..read more
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I didn’t go missing, David. The FBI knew where I was the entire time!
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2y ago
Well. It's a little embarrassing to roll up and publish a post on a blog that has been gathering dust for LITERALLY 18 MONTHS. The last time I sat down to write here was December 2019. I'm not going to apologise for the absence because... well, who cares? Also we all know that after 2019 came 2020 and... well. I admire the people who have carried on blogging in the last 18 months because honestly - I tried so many times to string a sentence together and I was simply unable to. But there we are. Anyway, if you're here - HELLO! I hope you're as well as anyone can be in these truly strange and te ..read more
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When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy.
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4y ago
Hello hello! How have we all been since the middle of October, eh? I've been okay - mostly great, in fact - nobody I love has been in a horrific accident, so the latter months of this year are showing an improvement on the earlier ones. Can't be too bad, right? I'm being facetious, but I think I am allowed because there has been a lot of suckitude this year and I am glad to be nearing the end of it. Of course, there is a general election on Thursday so there is still a strong chance that 2019 will deliver a steaming turd in a bag to all of our doorsteps on Friday morning, but at the moment I ..read more
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I've been down the salt mines with my fellow Johnny Lunchpails so long, I no longer speak one percent.
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4y ago
Hello children! I am actually somehow here, even though my motivation to blog has been almost - although evidently not totally dead. I had all sorts of good intentions after my last post at the end of April that I would post after we returned from our holiday in Canada and write about the time we had. Well that didn't happen but we went to Toronto, and it was lovely. Here I am on an old Canadian train in front of the CN Tower. Toronto was brilliant. Nic and I fell in love with the city and its atmosphere, not least of all because we met such wonderful people when we were there. We were luc ..read more
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