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The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send soup...
Hello there! It's been a while, I know, but the blogger part of me hasn't died completely!Anyway, I haven't been up to much since I last blogged. I've been working and sewing as usual. Nic and I had a...
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Culture, mate. That's where the hope of the world lies. And a more cultural...
Hello lads and ladies! Happy Friday - I hope this week has been treating you well. I have had a very full week at work, which has actually been really enjoyable. The period between September and...
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"Are you single and looking for love?" No, I'm married and looking for cake.
Hello! What's happening, lads? It's all good here with me: the sun is shining, work is done for the day and the dinner is cooking away (I am making minestrone soup) for later. I have a few days of work...
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I find the mystery genre disgusting. I hate being titillated.
Hello everyone! I hope that the early days of autumn (or spring, for those of you in the other hemisphere) are treating you well.I'm not too bad, myself. It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It...
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It's Ireland's largest lingerie section, I understand. I read that... somewhere.
Hello boys and girls! Again, it has been a while, but that's just the craic there. Life has been busy recently, as it often is - but here are some highlights since I wrote last time:Belfast...
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Months of delicate hard work and now look at it, you ham-fisted bun vendor!
Hi guys! So I guess that blogging once every couple of weeks is about my level at the moment, so that's the craic there.It's been a long and pretty tough couple of weeks, though. Work is intense, I've...
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The password is "CATCH YOURSELF ON"
Ah hello, it's yourselves.Yes, it has been a while... I just can't seem to get back into the swing of regular blogging at all, but life has really managed to get in the way. The last time I was seen...
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And you know, all of my clothes double as pyjamas.
WELL. Well, well, well, well.It's been five months since I last blogged, which is guess is not so much a break as a sabbatical. A hiatus? Either way, it wasn't intentional, although I did end up...
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Do you know where I might find a Detective Chief Inspector... looks like...
Why hello there, it's yourselves! I hope you're all well. I'm currently enjoying this ridiculously sunny and warm weather - as a faintly blue-tinged Irish woman, I'm not really physically compatible...
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You are strong, you are a Kelly Clarkson song, you've got this!
Hello hello HELL-OOOH! I hope you're all grand. I'm feeling pretty grand: I have been (mostly) enjoying the warm, sunny weather - on the one hand I do not enjoy the hayfever and the fact that I swell...
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Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee. No work would be possible...
Hello my dears! Unsurprisingly, the dream of blogging more often has sort of fallen by the wayside in the face of a busy summer. But, sure, what can you do.Anyway, things are grand here. I had a busy...
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Frederick, I have an important question. Why do humans not like me, call me...
Well hello, all you lovely lot. Nic is out this evening, I have a crappy film on in the background and I thought the time was right to do a little blogging. The film is We Need To Talk About Kevin and...
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You’ve seen them, the rappers, the rap singers. They’re on the on a lot of...
Hello my loves! And how is September treating you all? I am still slightly in denial that it even is September, despite it being the 19th... it is often a trying month (despite it containing my...
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Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands...
HEY IS THIS THING ON?Ugh, I know. It has been a while. How are you all? Have you been on holiday, had your hair cut? Are those new shoes?I have been on holiday, in fairness... and had my hair cut. And...
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An object lesson in the healing powers of obstinacy and a hostile disposition.
I had thought that my inclination for blogging had perhaps died completely as, after writing my most recent post in NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, I haven't felt in any way compelled to pick it back up. But...
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I've been down the salt mines with my fellow Johnny Lunchpails so long, I no...
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...
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When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy.
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...
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I didn’t go missing, David. The FBI knew where I was the entire time!
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...
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You know, we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilised way!
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...
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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.
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...
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But the truth is, I'm not going to get wine of any temperature in prison....
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...
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There’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.
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...
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Don’t play mind checkers with me, man. I’m not in the mood.
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...
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Well, it was Friday night last week. It'll be Friday night next week and...
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...
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They say every day's a gift, but why does it have to be a pair of socks?
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...
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