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Judy Evans @JudyEv (351420) • Rockingham, Australia 17h

I grew up on a farm in a house that was mostly built by my father. In the mid-1960s, a new house was built which is still lived in today. We visited the old farm recently and I took this photo of the kitchen chimney which is...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv You’ll have seen lots of remnants of old stone cottages in rural Ireland, each with its stories to tell. Many are the result of evictions in the 1800s.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 25 Apr

Someone has been trying to blackmail me recently. Maybe you know what it’s like. I’ve been getting emails claiming that the sender has installed malware in my computer. Part of the deal is that he/she/it can now access the camera...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev That’s just horrible. It can be very panic inducing even though you know that no such footage could possibly exist. Sick.

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Xavier Bage @franxav (14075) • India 24 Apr

Call it bad manners but I can't help reading those slogans on T shirts. Slogans or messages whatever you call them. If there is any other right word to describe them, I don't know it. Please do enlighten me. What else they are...

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Fiacre Banks @AmbiePam I also don’t like it when young ladies in the waitressing profession wear name badges that are pinned on their chests in such a way as makes them difficult to read, and I have to stare at those chests to decipher what is written.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 23 Apr

The positive way of looking at our boiler/furnace issues is that the weather is heating up, and heat is not urgently required. The negative way is to focus on the expense of buying a new one and having it installed. The previous...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Greece welcomes me with open arms. However I’m an excellent and respectful guest, unlike some of my fellow citizens. Most tourists coagulate around resorts near airports but my island has no airport thankfully, and generally people don’t stay long in...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 23 Apr

The positive way of looking at our boiler/furnace issues is that the weather is heating up, and heat is not urgently required. The negative way is to focus on the expense of buying a new one and having it installed. The previous...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Hope so. When I was there in September my phone exploded on the way home on the plane and I lost my photos.

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Amber @AmbiePam (97492) • United States 19 Apr

So yesterday morning I went downstairs to leave for my appointment. There is a box to the side of the bottom of the stairs that was not there as late as 11:45pm the night before. And I just knew it was one of the things that had...

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Fiacre Banks @AmbiePam I often get packages sent to my post office round the corner.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 17 Apr

Yes, I’m off on the trot again and it wasn’t planned. Hot on the heels of my May sojourn in Athens I feel the need to visit my brother - he’s just moved permanently into a care home due to the limitations brought on by Parkinson’s...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv No fun at all. My mother had it for the last 5 years of her life. She and my brother were diagnosed around the same time as each other when she was 80 and my brother was 50.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 17 Apr

Yes, I’m off on the trot again and it wasn’t planned. Hot on the heels of my May sojourn in Athens I feel the need to visit my brother - he’s just moved permanently into a care home due to the limitations brought on by Parkinson’s...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev We’ve found an apartment quite near the tapestry museum. I’m glad I’m able to get over to see him and his wife at short notice - they’ve just moved to near Bayeux recently so don’t know many people. There’s not much I will be able to do practically to...

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30343) • Lichfield, England 16 Apr

We've been to the big Tesco again this afternoon. My Mum came with me today because she wanted some Easter eggs and she wanted to choose them herself. So we took a trolley each. My Mum said she'd be quicker that way. I got both...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton My sentence was clumsy and inelegant. Puncture occurred on the journey to the north coast.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 16 Apr

Whoever thought it would come to this? Among all the silliness that people visit upon us, today a British Court ruled on the definition of what a woman is. Now I’ve known for quite some time what a woman is, but nobody ever pays...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Some sensible people around then - good to know!

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30343) • Lichfield, England 14 Apr

I haven't been out much since Wednesday when I went to the big Tesco. I did some painting again on Thursday and listened to some CDs. Actually, because Mum was going out to see the doctor in Burntwood, and would be going...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton There’s always one!

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Fleur @Fleura (31495) • United Kingdom 14 Apr

Not that I’m complaining, as I love them! But these little spring flowers, which people tend to regard as delicate little plants, are in fact tough survivors given half a chance. As you can see we have allowed them to make...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura My plans for retirement never included mowing.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 13 Apr

The bubble monkeys were at their nonsense again tonight. They mixed some of grandma’s special recipe with my coffee and I woke up later with these poetic thoughts firmly etched on my brain. Read them with a slow lilt if you dare,...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Yes, it’s amazing what insomnia makes you come up with.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 11 Apr

I sat in the sunshine up at Skernaghan Point this afternoon, well away from the frivolity of the beach where pasty white bodies were all turning crimson. There were sheep in the paddock, loads of them, all bleating. One enormous...

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Fiacre Banks @AmbiePam I have noisy neighbours.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 11 Apr

I sat in the sunshine up at Skernaghan Point this afternoon, well away from the frivolity of the beach where pasty white bodies were all turning crimson. There were sheep in the paddock, loads of them, all bleating. One enormous...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I’m sure the noise of ferries is quite detrimental to sea life. The booming sound of the engines travels for quite a distance.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 9 Apr

The Aer Lingus app tells me that I’ll be landing in Athens in 26 days, as will my wife and daughter. A taxi will whip us away to Piraeus where we hope to overnight at a port side hotel with a roof top bar, and next day a flying...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv The Spaniards are out in force protesting about over-tourism.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 9 Apr

The Aer Lingus app tells me that I’ll be landing in Athens in 26 days, as will my wife and daughter. A taxi will whip us away to Piraeus where we hope to overnight at a port side hotel with a roof top bar, and next day a flying...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev First time I was there when I was about 17 it was most primitive and non-developed - a paradise. Pity about what mass tourism can do to a good beach. The island I go to is not a tourist resort thankfully.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 9 Apr

The Aer Lingus app tells me that I’ll be landing in Athens in 26 days, as will my wife and daughter. A taxi will whip us away to Piraeus where we hope to overnight at a port side hotel with a roof top bar, and next day a flying...

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Fiacre Banks @anya12adwi A hydrofoil .

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 9 Apr

I can’t think of much that betters rising with the late spring sun and pottering about the dew-wet garden, noting what seeds have sprouted overnight and setting out breakfast for the birds. And aren’t birds so admirable, so...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Yes, it was a bit voyeuristic but by the time I realised what they were up to it was over.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13480) • Ireland 8 Apr

A book arrived for me today which wasn’t a surprise because I had ordered it. Written not by a strident right winger who tolerates only a somewhat wooden and uncompromising theology, and of which there are plenty, but by a quiet...

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Fiacre Banks @daddyevil Not a sip had wetted my lips when my eyes beheld the worms: now it’s all gone.

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