Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
We hadn’t expected much of a Christmas. We had moved in December and were mainly confined to our cottage but Christmas is a big deal in Ireland. When we arrived on our first evening there were fairy lights around the Ingle nook. We had scarcely got inside before our friends’ young daughter was demanding we […]
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Joni Mitchell once sang “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone” and I can vouch for the truth of that statement. We finished our packing in a mad scramble and the car was mainly filled by us, the dogs and our bedding. How Jacqui got a couple of cases, some books and a […]
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It is dark at night in rural Ireland. Very, very dark, especially in the rain – and especially in winter. As we turned the corner into the village suddenly there were lights from houses by the road. The shop and pub opposite the entrance to our little enclave had bright windows and outside lamps shone […]
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December is never a good time to move house. We should know – all of our moves have taken place in December due to differing circumstances. This December however was the hardest of the lot. We drove off in the car loaded with bedding, three dogs and essentials of life for the first few days. […]
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There are some advantages that come with age and one is a wealth of experience. My remarkable partner Jacqui had, in another life, been in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Refusing to panic she rang the Stranrae hotel and explained – several times, using increasingly small words – we were not travelling for “Leisure or […]
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With new restrictions and rules changing almost weekly it seemed we were moving at full speed but going nowhere. Suddenly time seemed to speed up as the deadline to move came ever closer yet we were still floating in a sea of uncertainty. Moving home was one of the exceptions to the lockdown but only […]
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As the warm weather arrived we began to travel more hopefully. Despite our best efforts we could not finance a house before selling ours so the plan was to sell, put our stuff in storage, move into a rental property and then look for somewhere permanent. Seemed a fairly logical way to go about it, […]
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So, there we were, both more than slightly incapacitated. I don’t know what we had caught or where we had caught it, but I never want to get it again. It began a bit like the ‘flu with a high temperature, shaking – you know what it’s like. Then there was the cough, and that […]
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Hello, welcome back and many apologies for my long absence. As some of you may know I have been on a bit of an adventure – a bit more of an adventure than I anticipated when I began – and many things have changed over the last months. I want to share this journey with […]
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These are strange times, there’s no avoiding that idea, and like everyone else I am having to make changes to my life, my work and my expectations. Life is, of course, somewhat constrained at present though I am probably luckier than most in that I work from home and generally work alone so it’s not […]
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