Le Grand Flump

A hectic week, with work and leaks and mushrooms growing in the Cottage and more work and dehumidifiers and decorating a skeleton and babysitting and a little cat going crazy from the dehumidifiers and plumbers (though she was ok with the mushrooms) and much more work.

And now the dehumidifier has no more moisture to catch. Grateful :-)

And the Dublin Pride Parade 2011 went beautifully. 25k people marching, 100k people lining the streets. Oodles of photos to download but for now, this one I found online captures the vibe :-)

Needless to say, this is a morning of flumping :-)

News Roundup

Before I launch into next week, a few pics from recent days, featuring:

A boy and his new schoolbag. His new, beloved schoolbag.

A young laydee testdriving trains and costumes.

The mood at the very lovely Farmleigh House (in the Phoenix Park) on Friday night. I was given tickets for an evening with RTE's Drivetime Diarists (Joseph O'Connor, Olivia O'Leary and Fergus Finlay): nourishment for the soul, filled with laughter and a few blinking tears.

For the latter part of the week, I overhauled an office for a friend (while its regular occupants were away). A complete revamp (vs tidying) is always fun, though there's always the anxiety that someone will return and say "Great job! But you didn't throw away my lucky rubber band, did you? It was red, and broken..."

Anyhoo, the office is not finished, but it's getting there. Baby steps... as in so many other aspects of life at the moment :-)