What is it with men and their tools? Perhaps the question says it all. Gabe and I spent a few hours happily organising hardware in the studio today; a vacation day to boot. You would have thought Gabe was on the Playstation he was so excited sorting screws, so I am beginning to think there [...]

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On Sunday I helped our neighbour put up a wind turbine to power the electricity at his house. It was a bit comical and even more death defying at one point trying to get a very top heavy metal pole, with propeller, lifted into the air with a stiff wind blowing against us. When we [...]

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It isn’t quite the scene from Magnolia, but we do get overrun with frogs each year to the extent that there is no way avoiding running quite a few of them over on the driveway and neighbouring roads. There has been quite a dry spell here over the last two weeks (beautiful actually) and Gabe [...]

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I had no idea tonsillitis was contagious, or that there were even multiple types. I had viral tonsillitis, which is the first time I ever experienced the “joy” of not being able to swallow or speak easily. My tonsils were swollen but looked nothing like some of these beauties. You really should try to keep [...]

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When I get around to it, I am going to create a site to help those in a similar position avoid Eircom altogether. I know they still technically own my line, but I am paying less and getting more. TalkTalk is now my telephone provider and I get unlimited local and long distance for €30.99/mth, [...]

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