lights in the dark...

Paddy and I saw something like this on Una's blog, so decided to try it for ourselves. We headed to the seafront, camera and torch in tow. It was freezing but fun fun fun!!

the Liffey Descent (into madness....)

We survived it, just barely. I might have Weills disease, Paddy is conviced he was bitten by rats, we were both SAVAGED by every pointy or nettley plant in existance and our noble vessel SANK but we're still here.
It was an adventure to say the least. It's really a shame our boat was so crap, we were kicking serious ass at the beginning of the race. We were in the top ten for the first five miles or so. I think we split the front on the first major weir, then sank steadily through the jungle. We kept trucking though and made it 7 miles before the holes in the fiberglass were as big as houses.
(I was very brave. There were spiders AND swans.)

bye bye lukasz

pinchy cobra....

the boat.

I'm a boat owner. It's a little boat, but it's a boat.





(it's the blue one...)
Paddy and I are doing the Liffey Descent on saturday. It's the biggest international white water race in Ireland every year.

I'm probably the only person not at the picnic.

Electric picnic that is. Drat.
Bjork is playing, and Erasure.
But that's ok, I get to update my blog. AND House is on TV tomorrow night. Oh the joy!!
It's been way too long, I don't even know where to start. Since July I've moved house, became a boat owner, done LOTS of surfing, and become a student (eek!!)

MY NEW HOUSE!!!
I've moved out of the killer apartment with the seaviews into a very VERY nice house!! The apartment was great, the management company wasn't. They were rather fond of written warnings and inspections, not that we were bad tenants at all, we just kept commiting heinous indescretions like TALKING and using the elevator. I think we laughed one day with the window open. Oh the shame!!! When we heard that our landlord wanted to move back in we were MORE than happy to go house hunting. The new house is a polar-opposite living experience. It's relaxed in a sortof seaside-hostel kind of way. It's fantastic. We have a front and back garden, our scarecrow Earl is finally where he belongs!!



It's great, a stones throw from the sea, around the corner from Cavistons (home of the best fish and Pate in the known world) and there's loads of cats in the neighborhood to borrow for the afternoon. I had a great chat with a big fatso white cat this morning when I was hanging out the laundry. He's quite a looker.






TO BE CONTINUED........