Yesterday I woke up feeling neither ill nor exhausted and for once we had nowhere particular to be. So, I took up my screwdrivers and attacked the bathroom! Weee! I had started decorating prep on the bathroom months ago and had stalled on the above factors. I can only tackle a big project when Mr Wol is home to keep BB out of it so yesterday the ( Read more... )

Anyone out there like Guinness? Well the huge Guinness brewery in the heart of Dublin looks like it is going to be modernized to another site altogether. This would be a crying shame for the heritage of the city. If anyone is interested there is an informative site on Facebook with details Read more... )

That is not my driving but my cold. I have been going through tissues the way some people go through oxygen. However things are improving and I am down to one box a day now. Roll on recovery ( Read more... )

It is the weekend and I am facing into a pile of work. Some of it is my own dratted fault for not being able to add 9 but there are three other projects that have been unhelpfully dumped on me with 'must finish!' deadlines because other people are running late. Gah! All I can do is look forward to a rest next weekend ... oh wait, that's right, more ( Read more... )

Meme-time. Any feminists out there? ( apparently :) )

We had an extremely busy weekend, made all the more so by the current wonky sleep of BB which leaves the adults in the house feeling like they are swimming through a fishtank during the daylight hours ( 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... )

Two of the cutest things ever crossed my path this week, although of rather different tones ( Read more... )

Week 5 and still coughing like an extra from Lady of the Camelias. Blech! Had a disastrous night with Baby Boy and my diminished lung capacity in glorious synergy. He woke finally at 5 am and could not go back to sleep. In the end Mr Wol took him downstairs and was so quiet and thoughtful of my rest that I dreamed of burglars and horror movie ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for a while, partly because with term and 'stuff' I am a bit busier than is cosy and partly because my throat feels like I have swallowed and alley cat but left the tail sticking out. Blech! the 3-week-cough as it has been dubbed in the city, is entering into its fourth week with no signs of flagging yet. Baby Boy is on his second ( Read more... )