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Recently a small piece of the door seal on our washer dryer came out in the wash. It was small but enough to mean water on the kitchen floor so it needed replacing. The solution seemed simple. Order a replacement seal. Fitting it however was a problem. Indesit decided to make this model un-servicable. It’s [...]

Someone pointed out recently that I hadn’t updated my posts about the rockery I started last year. Well here’s what it looks like now. The Chinses symbols dangling from the ‘roof’ are there mainly to stop a particularly stupid crow from attacking itself in the mirror early in the morning! There are a few plants [...]

That probably won’t be what you want though. For example our recent adoption from a recently deceased friend was developing a fascination for clawing at the carpets and rugs. Min decided that we should get a scratching post. I thought a scratching post was, well, a post, but Min had other ideas so we now [...]

  We got my mum a new bed recently. Turns out the cat was rather fond of the old mattress    

It seems that our new government is digging its heels in and the rest of the EU (probably Germany) isn’t happy. So let me put the scenario into perspective. Ireland cannot borrow from the market at the moment, we are apparently going to stay a free market capitalist country, so we will be getting money [...]

Woke up to a garden full of the little fellas today. Plenty around the estate too. Not a great photo but you get the main features. I noticed the local mistle thrush getting very worked up about them suddenly appearing on its turf! More info from Birdwatch Ireland.