Relentless Laundry

My dog and I share the same name.  There’s a story behind this – of course – which I’ll get to shortly, but for now be assured that I am aware that it’s both weird and embarrassing. It wasn’t a problem in Singapore, for two main reasons:  I rarely walked the dog, so anyone enquiring…

A few things have been gasting my flabber this week. Firstly, the BT Young Scientists exhibition.  To any non-Irish readers, this is an annual Dublin show where nerdy teenage students exhibit their science projects.  Or so I always thought.  Last weekend, faced with yet another bleak two days of having to solo-entertain them, I dragged…

Since we arrived back in Ireland at the end of the summer, everyone has been going on and on about energy prices, brace yourself, it’s going to be a hard winter, etc etc.  I mean really, how bad was it going to be?  (Also, what price a warm house?  Because this country is COLD.) So…

How was your Christmas?  I was hoping – planning – that it would be slightly different from every other day, but when by midday I had fed everyone (many times), cleared the table (ditto), emptied the dishwasher, confiscated sweets, broken up fights, picked up a week of dog shit, and HOOVERED ffs, I realised that…