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Five minute installation? Wah, hah, hah, hah, hah ha! Wahh, hah, hah, hah, hah ha,

It’s always good to do some research before you jump into things. I know this. I often give this advice to other people. One day I may heed it myself.

There on Tuesday night I was hit with the inspiration to register a domain name and set up web-space for my bonsai blog. The inspiration struck when I thought of a good domain name for my site. I think it’s good anyway but I should leave that to the bonsai-reading public to decide.

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Four seasons in one day

I’ve started to wear a baseball cap into work. It’s the only solution to the weather we’ve been having.

The problem is the weather changes so frequently. I leave for work in the morning and the sun is shining. It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day so I dress appropriately and go to work. Then at lunchtime I have to borrow an umbrella.

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Posted in baseball caps | rain | sun | weather 2 comments | | | | 330 reads

Owning a rat: Basics

It’s nearly worth having a pet rat just for the reaction it brings out in people when you tell them you have one. Rats are hugely disliked by almost everyone and have a reputation for being dirty, dangerous disease carriers. They have adapted to living in cities as well as humans and there may be more of them than there are of us. There’s probably a rat only a few feet from you now as you’re reading this. Boo! That’s why I think it’s a good idea to have one of them on your side.

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Where did the joke ‘why did the chicken cross the road’ come from and why is it funny?

Firstly, I don’t know the answer to the question in the title so this is me asking rather than me explaining. And I don’t know why it’s funny either. I don’t even know if it is funny. But what is funny is that I think I can still remember the first time I heard it, even though I was very young. It is probably one of my earliest memories and I didn’t find it funny then either. I just assumed I was missing something and that it had went over my head.

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Should you quit your day job to blog?

It is a tempting idea. I’ll have to resist it for now though. So far my landlord is stubbornly refusing to accept blog entries as payment and insists on money. I find the same old-fashioned attitudes all around me: grocery and clothes shops, all types of services and utilities, each one looking for currency or at least the promise of it in installments.

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Honesty is the best policy

I have had honesty thrust upon me from an early age. I have my plain and simple parents to thank for that. But more than that I have my blushing cheeks to thank. Maybe I was too young when I heard about George Washington chopping down a tree but I believed the story and anytime I was tempted to lie I found my burning cheeks turning cherry red. While I could possibly tell a lie it would be easily and quickly detected and so was pointless. Honesty is the best policy and, if you’re a bad liar or have a bad memory and like neither tangled webs nor weaving, then it definitely is the best idea.

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Living and working in Dublin, Ireland

I grew up in the west of Ireland, in the wild countryside, without running water or an indoor toilet, central heating, a telephone or a car, with public transport limited to one bus per week to the nearest big town which was thirteen miles away. The surprising thing is that I’m not ninety years old! I’m substantially younger. I moved to Dublin in the mid 1990s when I was still in my late teens. In my time here the place has changed immensely.

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Posted in Dublin | Ireland | living | working 8 comments | | | | 378 reads