So, this is where I spend the majority of my days … not so bad. Lisa oversaw the design of the space for the Centre for Design Innovation. There are three enormous orange dots cut into the carpeting. The carpet comes from an Irish company, Tretford, and is made from goat hair and other renewable [...]

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This was the first Academy Awards show I missed in at least 18 years. I used to think the Oscars ran late, but they don’t even start here until 11:30PM. Our guest from California, Lea, actually stayed up to watch the whole thing … until 4:30AM. I was up at 6AM in order to get [...]

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You really feel as if you are settled when you begin to host overnight guests at your new house. This weekend we had two friends from Clare spend a wonderful weekend. The highlights were certainly two walks along the backroads. When people visit, you tend to take them to a few places you have already [...]

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I’ll still have to file taxes in the States for the first half of 2006, but how cool is filing taxes in Ireland? So cool, you don’t have to file a return. That’s right. No paperwork. No signatures. No accountant fees. Done. You essentially apply for deductions or “tax credits” as they are called here [...]

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I suppose the military needs to brainwash Marines in order to turn them into killing machines. We’ve seen enough of these films to realise they must not be making this stuff up. So after jacking up a bunch of adolescents into a testosterone fury, our main characters head to the desert and end up not [...]

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