Back live!
Huzzah! Friday morning, like a Masai warrior emerging from the haze of the desert (okay, well it was more like a white van emerging out of the mist off the Loch but we’ll get to that) came…the elusive but still definitely welcome Eircom man. I was incredibly pleased to see him, having had three weeks in our new house twiddling my thumbs (well, apart from cleaning, unpacking and making bad curtain choices but more of that later). Bertie was also exceedingly pleased to see him (he doesn’t discriminate, he’s just exceedingly pleased to see everyone) and gave him a jolly good wash as a present for fixing up our phone line. Lubly.
Here, then, to get us all back into the swing of it, is a random Getting Back Online Top Ten which is a mixture of things I’ve missed, mixed with things I’ve got to talk about (been making lots of mental notes for you) and a few other things I thought you might like to know. Here goes then:
1. I now live in a little house in County Cavan – the lake district of Ireland – where there are, according to #1 who is an incurable smarty pants, 365 lakes: one for each day of the year (no, I don’t know what happens on a leap year, presumably they call it ‘Ireland’s county with normally one lake for each day of the year but not this year ‘cos it’s a leap year’). Cavan is kind of up a bit from Meath, left a bit from Louth and not quite as high as Northern Ireland although it’s tantalisingly close. We have a rather nice lake very near to the house (pics to follow) and lots of midges to boot.
2. The surrounding fields were full of cows but are now empty as they all got squished into a trailer on Saturday never to return (don’t ask). There’s another house here (I know! People!) which contains D&C, who are very nice (we’re the little interloper section of the village as they’re Scottish/Irish and we’re English/Irish), along with their two children: L, a little girl the same age as #1 and C, a little boy the same age as #2. This has to be chalked up as a right result. Along with the lake, we have a pub which is also an undertaker (go figure), a shop with two petrol pumps, a GAA pitch and a primary school – practically inner city, us.
3. Internet things I’ve missed, part 1: reading Isitjustme for fun, gossip, and lots of things that make me nod and go ‘that’s SO true!’ a lot.
4. Internet things I’ve missed, part 2: reading 73 Man and sometimes feeling incredibly proud and intellectual when I actually understand what he’s on about.
5. Internet things I’ve missed part 3: reading Flirty’s blog and having a jolly good laugh whilst lurching between feelings of ‘I wish I was still single’ and ‘God, I’m glad I’m not still single’. Wondrous.
6. Internet things I’ve missed part 4: emails! The lovely, chatty e-mails from my friends that keep me feeling like it’s not just me, Bertie and several cows in the world. Oh, and emails from me Mam telling me off when I swear on the blog (sorry Mam!)
7. Things we need to talk about, part 1: Nigella Express. What the hell? J and I always drive our respective partners mad whilst watching our favourite TV programmes as we text each other continually but this programme generated 9 texts each. Yes, 9. What was all the smug posing (‘think a TV dinner in ten minutes is fast? Watch me whip up a family feast in less than half an hour’), the false laughing to camera and the copious use of frozen veg? I’m sorry, it was all wrong. And I love Nigella too. Disappointing.
8. Things we need to talk about, part 2: my pathetic inability to purchase items of soft furnishings that a: go with the other items of soft furnishing that I’ve already purchased and b: don’t make the house look like a 1950s Clacton B&B or a dodgy booth in the red light district of Amsterdam. What the hell is the matter with me? I’m a woman, shopping is what we DO.
9. Things we need to talk about, part 3: my kitchen. Holy hell, it’s fab!
10. Well that’s it, I can only think of 9, so I’ll be off out with my camera then, ready to report back to you soon. It’s rather wondrous to be back. A bientot, then, ma cheries x
House sounds wonderful and kitchen even more so…Will wait for piccy of curtains before I comment..you COULDN’T have made a bad choice.
Dying for lake piccies.
Lovely to see you back! Never been to that neck of woods but it sounds fab! Betcha Bertie’s delirious!
You gotta give a more thorough description of that gorgeous kitchen of yours. Solid oak with gold plated marble worktops maybe?
Isit: curtains are dire. Am living with upstairs ones (expensive mistake, say no more) but have learnt my lesson and have bare windows downstairs until I develop some taste! Pics shortly x
Foreign: yes to the oak, no to the gold plated marble lol. Again, pics to come.
73: Bless you darling, I’ve missed your brilliant prose.
PS Taffy wants to know what Bertie has been up to!!
Atty: Bertie has been settling in well apart from some nasty stair accidents – more of those later!