Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
This last week we passed four years since the UK officially exited the EU and like many people our lives were never going to be the same again. Unlike a lot of people, we took a rather more drastic turn, leaving our home of almost forty years behind us. There have been a lot of […]
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From September to mid January we seem to have a lot of anniversaries. Some more recent than others, some shared and some more private, they all mark steps in our lives. Jacqui has a couple of medical anniversaries for example, having dodged the bullets of cancer and heart attacks in the past years. For some […]
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As the year grinds to an ending I offer an apology for my several absences this year. This last month especially I’ve not written anything though a fair amount has happened. Well, I say a heartfelt goodbye to 2023, which ends with a bang – several bangs actually. About six weeks ago I fell backwards […]
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Please forgive me if this episode is a bit incoherent – and maybe a little shorter than usual. It has been a very interesting few weeks culminating in our ‘flu and covid jabs on Friday. We had hoped that after a number of rounds our bodies would have become reconciled to the vaccines but we […]
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A memory from my younger years came back to me this week. I have a lot of memories from childhood, a mixed selection as we all do, but some shine bright – and some really should stay buried. Now, one of our dogs looks like a puppy but she’s actually 16 years old. At that […]
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In this networked and computer driven society one of the most annoying thing is the compulsory upgrade. After years of using IT, way back to the dial-up days, I have always been of the opinion that if something needs constant upgrading it doesn’t work properly anyway. This rather rough rule of thumb applies to many […]
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Those of you who read the last blog will be aware we have some serious difficulties at the moment. The most pressing is the water situation, of which more later but, despite everything, we have made a breakthrough. When we moved in we had to use the big shed, christened the “Hotel Majestic” as storage. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Firstly I offer you my deep and profound apologies for the late posting. It’s just that we’ve had one heck of an August so far. August has always been a bit of a problematic month for us in Ireland. Regular readers may recall the plague of flies, repeated each year. The heat and dust from […]
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