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Up Close: Breathing Space
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Thursday, June 27, 2013. I was just wondering whether or not six months was long enough a break from blogging. I decided that it was. I've been busy in a good way, enjoying good company and making memories. My parents spent a week with us in April, my brother with my sister-in-law, niece and his friend's family were here earlier this month. One of them has stayed to experience the Irish summer. *insert rain here*. I've been walking here:. I've had fun with these:.
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Up Close: October 2014
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. The fact that I need to more or less plan these kind of days is neither here nor there, but I tell you, I strongly recommend it. There seems to be too much pressure to be (seen to be) doing something all the bloody time. So with that in mind, last week I spent two days in Dublin doing nothing. From the lazy start to the leisurely drive there, the "no deadlines, no stress" approach to the whole mini holiday, it was thoroughly, utterl...
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Up Close: September 2014
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Thursday, September 18, 2014. Let's talk about exercise for a while, shall we? Yes, really. Exercise and being healthy, to be more exact. I know, if we were to rewind back in time to about 2 years ago, even I would be laughing. Yes, me talking about exercise and healthy(ish) living. So, what happened in between? Back to exercise. I never liked exercise unless it was for a purpose. I didn't see being healthy and fitter as a purpose until now. What start...Anyway, I...
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Up Close: February 2015
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. I saw someone post a photo of their most recent beauty purchase on Twitter this morning. It was a "pore minimiser", which prompted me to tweet this. Having tiny pores on your face is an aspiration that has baffled me for some time now. Every time I see or hear an ad for facial cream/cleanser/toner/industrial sander that claims to minimise your pores I stop and wonder why the hell should I bother? Back of the knee? Or something equally...
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Up Close: Getting There
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Thursday, September 18, 2014. Let's talk about exercise for a while, shall we? Yes, really. Exercise and being healthy, to be more exact. I know, if we were to rewind back in time to about 2 years ago, even I would be laughing. Yes, me talking about exercise and healthy(ish) living. So, what happened in between? Back to exercise. I never liked exercise unless it was for a purpose. I didn't see being healthy and fitter as a purpose until now. What start...Anyway, I...
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Up Close: September 2012
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Thursday, September 27, 2012. I think I mentioned in a previous post that I was heading up to Dublin for Hotel And Catering Review Gold Medal awards. The awards were on Tuesday night, so we headed up bright and early at 6am(! We were staying in the Hilton, which is a short walk from Heuston. We only fired our bags into the rooms and headed out again to lunch at the Avoca in Monkstown. Strawberry Sorbet, Passion Fruit Bavarois, Strawberry Tart. I loved the smoked s...
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Up Close: January 2012
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Monday, January 30, 2012. I blogged about positivity before ( here. The whole of the economy as we know it is in deep doodie. Deficits, over spending, cuts cuts and more cuts. Placing the blame on whoever happens to be within reach of an accusing finger. Making up too many excuses and not enough ideas to resolve the mess we find ourselves in. Yes, all of us. The thing is, I am painfully aware of all of this. Painfully aware. I've dotted this post with pictures of ...
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Up Close: Never As Planned
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Thursday, August 28, 2014. It's been a while -again. History repeating and all that but I'm not going to go into detail, suffice to say it's been a busy six months on this side of the screen. Spring came and went in a blur of sunshine, increasingly busy times at work and some more than welcome visitors. Doing the tourist-y thing around where you live is always fun, this really is a beautiful corner of the world and showing people around serves as a perfect rem...
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Up Close: Fooled ya!
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Monday, February 24, 2014. So, it turns out six months wasn't quite enough. I'm finding it very hard to get back into regular blogging despite having three days off per week at the moment. I'm spending very little time at my laptop and the Blogger mobile app just doesn't cut it for me. I need an actual keyboard to produce anything coherent. Now, I'm sure there are other things I should mention but having put my brain on the spot, it simply cannot come up with anyt...
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Up Close: Nothingness
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Move along, there's nothing to see here. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. The fact that I need to more or less plan these kind of days is neither here nor there, but I tell you, I strongly recommend it. There seems to be too much pressure to be (seen to be) doing something all the bloody time. So with that in mind, last week I spent two days in Dublin doing nothing. From the lazy start to the leisurely drive there, the "no deadlines, no stress" approach to the whole mini holiday, it was thoroughly, utterl...
