Don't know what it was today but the road was suddenly full of blind bastards and pushy cows. It seemed people were actively trying to get killed/kill us, rather than their usual blithe lack of attention. By the time me and my viral headache limped home I was torn between a bout of road rage and a strong desire to just park the car and walk home in ( Read more... )

Have rather staggered through the week so far on not enough sleep and too many jobs to do. DD's birthday was last week - 5! she's 5! already!! - and it was half term so guts were busted making things fun for her and gearing up for teh BIG PARTY on Sunday at Monkey Maze a local play centre. We ended up with 19 kids at that party, not including BB. ( Read more... )

Well amongst all the other fun of the fair this bank holiday weekend the worry of surviving carless has been lifted (well sorta not including possible health related not driving things) thanks to our government's fundamental lack of a spine. After doing interview after interview digging himself steadily in deeper and deeper with his 'the gardai ( Read more... )

Today, in it's infinite lack of thinking things through the government has decided that as of Monday I am not allowed to drive. No I haven't been banned or had my license revoked, nor have I broken any law. No. I have just been recategorized, along with up to 420,000 others like me. You see because our driving test system runs slightly slower than ( Read more... )

Our lovely neighbours, and that isn't sarcastic, they really are lovely, employed two Polish monkeys to tidy the garden and path bordering our minute little plot. After last year's debacle and the closest thing to a falling out we ever had I assumed they would show more sense this time. Nope! I stayed outside to keep an eye on them and they seemed ( Read more... )

Yup! Unemployable again! This rare personality type thing has some similarities with the rare blood type thing. Initial 'oh cool!'ness outweighed by problems further down the line.

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)
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I have now officially had it with Cork drivers. The standard of road savvy in this neck of the woods is, as they say round here, only dire! Today was a nice sunny day, no rain to piss people off, and I met two idiots driving the wrong way down one way streets, 2 sheep-like saloons following a taxi the wrong way round a one-way, one-car-width detour ( Read more... )

I put it behind a cut in case nobody wants to see the scary things that Irish drivers can do. ( Rant the Nth: in which a series of blind, deaf and murderous motorists attempt the life of our heroine )

We finally got to see the newly arrived twins today. Having stuffed the boot of the car with baby related stash we no longer use, plus presents I was very keen to see the babas and see the aquisitive look in the parents' eyes as they unwrapped the swag. After what can only be called a Hellish pre-delivery period and a slightly unnerving post ( Read more... )