Dirty Dancing at the Grand Canal Theatre

Enid and I went to the closing night of Dirty Dancing last week and it was a really great night. First we went to Tribeca in Ranelagh.  We love this place.  A glass of Malbec and a hamburger - I have never ordered anything different here!!!!!  Even though everything else smells so nice and looks so good I just can't resist the hamburgers.  They are the best hamburgers I have ever eaten - and that includes America.Dirty DancingOverall...

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The Twelfth Lock

David and I went for a nice breakfast in the The Twelfth Lock this morning.  It is a cute little building situated on the banks of the Royal Canal (at the twelfth lock!!) and it was particularly picturesque in today's summer sun.David had the mini breakfast - one of everything - sausage, rasher, tomato, black and white pudding, and tea and toast.  I got two poached eggs and rashers plus a coffee and toast.It was all very nice...

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Good shampoo and conditioner

I cannot recommend this stuff enough. €3/4 for the two from Penneys and it's really good!Leaves your hair really soft and shiny.  And brings up your colour nice too.Go b...

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Very cool and relaxed wedding

I was at my friends Caitriona and Stephen's wedding yesteday.  It was a lovely relaxed day and evening - a very cool wedding held in the beautiful settings of Horetown House..Unfortunately my phone (i.e. my camera is still out of action) so I don't have photos of all the nice touches at this wedding that I would like to show you :-(So this is me all dressed up for the wedding.  You can't really see it in this pic but my hair was styled...

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iPad lost, iSad. iPad found, iHappy.

I did something really really stupid and left my iPad on the train on Monday morning.How the hell did I do that?!!!!  Well let me explain.In Dublin we have this free newspaper (the Metro) which I was reading on the train.  I had my iPad on the table also and when I finished the newspaper I put it on top of the iPad.  I then dozed off for a few minutes...I sometimes do this on the train :-) And while I was starting to doze off, I actually...

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Hello

Well hello there!I have not blogged for a while for a combination of reasons.Firstly I was on holidays in Key West, Florida so I always I would do less blogging than usual over the last two weeks.  However I could not connect my laptop to the wifi so unfortunately there was literally no blogging whatsoever.Secondly, the night before I was flying out my phone, which I use for taking photos and immediate uploading died a death*. So I took a lot of photographs with dad's camera, and I now have them loaded on the laptop, but now I need to arrange...

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