And herself is off to Dublin

It’s Sunday evening, 30^th October, the clocks have gone back and so herself heads off to Dublin. On Tuesday 1^st the refurbishment of the shower room & bathroom at 188 is due to start. It’s with trepidation that I manage this work as it is first time we’ve worked with Irish workmen… will they revival their French counterparts we wonder & we hope not.  Where’s a Polish plumber when you need it.

PHOTO OF AIRPORT Anyone would think no one wants to leave the UK but just turns out that I am just first to the gate. In fact, it’s more likely to be a photo of the arrivals terminal after Brexit. Although the flight is nicely quiet and we get a quick run over Wales and land in Dublin at 8pm. Am settling into the flat by 9pm so not bad at all.

There are lots of upsides to having a great night’s sleep, feeling fresh, lots of energy, no hangover but on a bank holiday Monday there is not a lot of point being bright eyed and bushy tailed at 7am.  Still I thought I could do the food shopping early particular since the Tesco.ie website said they opened at 9am. So, me along with a little trickle of people are standing outside the supermarket only be told that they’ll open at 10am. Being Ireland, everyone just shrugs their shoulders and say ah sure that’s ok and walks off.

One of the reasons I travelled on the Sunday night was to enable me to use my free tickets to the Irish Ideal Home Exhibition at the famous RDS.  To say it was a damp squid is a bit of an understatement. If I tell you that a company selling a service to whitening your teeth had not one but two stalls which were both full! If I could have taken a photo of the 5 eejits on each stand getting their teeth lasers I would.  

40 minutes later I am on my way to Dunnes Stores in Cornelscourt to buy the bedding needed for the guest room. Excitement at 188 as we have a guest staying on Friday night and then some friends borrowing the place the following weekend = enough of a spend in Dunnes for the guy behind the till to sign me up for their loyalty card scheme.

Back at the gaff to empty out the bathroom & shower room, make up the bedrooms and generally get ready for 10 days of mess, including baking a cake for the workmen - they better be worth it.