Category: Journal

Spring has arrived!

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After some time since writing, and giving a decent blog post, I shall not be surprised if the hits on this post are dire. I’ve abandoned my readers, and so I am rightly ashamed. In all honesty I have been quite busy. Not so busy I couldn’t have written a blog post, but when you’re [...]

Dublin Water Supply

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Following on from my description of Dublin as if it were Hoth from last week, I write this post today with a calm Spring-like air over Dublin. It’s a bit chilly, but not cold or freezing by any standards. The snow has gone and the roads are back to operational standards. However, since the snow [...]

My Final Year Project

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I haven’t talked about it here on the blog before but I thought I would take this opportunity provided by the bad Irish weather, and the even worse ability of Irish people to adapt to said weather to discuss my project. The opportunity provided, by the way, is that an exam scheduled for today has [...]

Dublin Collapses under Snow

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Dublin is in a nice part of the world. We don’t gain or loose much with global warming. Nothing extreme about our weather – our variance is just different levels of wetness for the most part. However since mid-December we’ve had a bit of a cold snap, but avoided the same snowy tundra of other [...]

Christmas market(s)

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Yes, it’s that time of year… again. It’s amazing how this happens every year, right on time. This year, me and the ladyfriend decided to trek around Dublin checking out the various (two) Christmas markets, where lots of people set up stalls to offer their fun wares, from jam to mulled wine and from scarves [...]