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on 13 October 2005 at 14:06

Absolutely not.

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12 October, 2005
Posted in: Miscellaneous

Madam has now departed to the creche and the boys are sleeping the
sleep of the just. I have therefore used this opportunity to
order a dust buster using my supermarket points. You have no idea
how pleased I am by this. Yes, I realise this makes me a very sad
person. Go away.

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Minkleberry

on 12 October 2005 at 12:19

I love my dustbuster

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on 12 October 2005 at 16:11

UC, I love that. To take pleasure in the trivial things of life is a great gift. I think that I will get a lot of use from that.
Minks, am so glad I am not alone. Delivery is scheduled for 10 days time. I’m on the edge of my seat here.

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on 12 October 2005 at 17:56

I used to have a DustBuster. Then one night in winter long ago, it was used as an unauthorised weapon during a game of Jeu d’affaires. (I was not winning.) Was last seen travelling in a gracful arc in the general direction of the Khaleej al Araby….

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on 13 October 2005 at 14:05

Gosh, I hadn’t realised that they were so dangerous.

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on 13 October 2005 at 22:28

Yep — virtually weapon of mass destruction. But that’s what happens when some bugger launches your DustBuster off a 10th floor balcony….

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11 October, 2005
Posted in: Miscellaneous

Me: Will we go home and see Daddy and the boys?
Princess: HeÂ’s my Daddy not the boysÂ’ Daddy.
Me: Yes, heÂ’s certainly your Daddy.
Princess: And NOT the boysÂ’ Daddy.

Me to Daniel: Come here to your Mummy.
Outraged Princess: YouÂ’re MY Mummy.

By the way,
I thought you might like to know that we tried to think of nicknames for the
boys for the blog but we got stuck.
Prince Michael Waffle? You see
our difficulty. Suggestions welcome.

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NorahSplog

on 11 October 2005 at 10:35

When I was about the princess’ age, much against my better judgement my parents brought home my little brother. I was asked what I thought we should call the new baby and was very quick to suggest ‘Dorrid’. Dorrid? asked my mother, being careful not to invalidate my input, “Dorrid is a very unusual name – what made you think of Dorrid?” I sighed, rolled my eyes and pointed out that then we could all call him ‘Horrid Dorrid’.

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formerfilmexpert

on 11 October 2005 at 16:40

ah well at least as you were the eldest child, you can sympathize. I suspected the happy princess would not last long after the boys came home and the presents stopped coming!!!! Well only 75 days to Christmas and more presents for princess then

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Locotes

on 11 October 2005 at 16:49

Vader and Darth?
Sly and Arnie?
Tom and Jerry?
BBB1 and BBB2? (baby blogging boy)

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kristin

(Homepage)

on 12 October 2005 at 01:27

I know this sounds like i’m demoting them, but what about making them a duke and an earl or something?

Friar Tuck

on 12 October 2005 at 04:06

Pancake and Flapjack.

on 12 October 2005 at 09:50

JD, last ciggie? Ready, aim, fire.
Norah, superb!
FFE – 75 days is a long time.
Loc, Kristin, I dunno, I’m half inclined to go with FT’s pancake and flapjack.

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cha0tic

on 12 October 2005 at 10:30

The Brother of a Princess is generally a prince & bearing in mind your geographic location… Prince Fritte, Prince Sprout, Prince Choccy.

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on 12 October 2005 at 16:09

Prince Frites and Prince Sprout, I rather like. We may have a winner here.

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on 12 October 2005 at 17:37

Not a patch on Cha and Mia…..
[runs away]

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beachhutman

on 12 October 2005 at 21:21

Calvin and Hobbes?
Marks and Spencer?
Pease and Pudding?
Eggs and bacon?
I could go on……….

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on 13 October 2005 at 14:06

BHM – stop while you still can.
JD, that goes for you too.

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ladyjane

on 14 October 2005 at 23:03

Molenbeek and Dendermonde? If you’re really discounting Cha and Mia that is.

on 14 October 2005 at 23:29

Ok… ok.. I’ve got it: Fianna and F?il. yes? Yes?!

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on 15 October 2005 at 13:34

Oh, very good ladyjane. JD, I’m appalled, of course, it could be worse, progressive and democrat.

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10 October, 2005
Posted in: Miscellaneous

One of the great things about having babies is the presents (not the
ONLY great thing). All of our guests at the weekend came
pre-equipped with presents not just for the boys but for her Highness
as well. Is this not wonderful? And the doorbell keeps
ringing as the postman arrives with parcels. This morning we got
DHLed from Scotland a range of cashmere gear from the best dressed
diplomat. The excitement.

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on 10 October 2005 at 13:01

Cashmere gear for the babies? Really?

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Minkleberry

on 10 October 2005 at 15:25

where do you get your energy?

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kristin

on 10 October 2005 at 17:18

I remain in awe. All this coming and going and you barely out of the hospital. I left the house maybe 3 times in the first month after my daughter was born, and that was just one!
xo

amerly

on 10 October 2005 at 17:18

OOO thank you for the sweetie!
hope the princess and the 2 princes are all okay!!

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on 11 October 2005 at 08:55

Jack, I feel that this is sound advice.
Pog, I know, the indulgence of it all and for me and spouse and Princess.
Minks, went to bed at 8.00 last night dizzy with exhaustion.
Kristin, it’s only because of necessity – I have a two year old to entertain, otherwise I wouldn’t have left the house either!
Amerly, very welcome, all as well as can be expected.

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26 September, 2005
Posted in: Miscellaneous

Letter which appeared in the Irish Times last Saturday September 24, 2005 [My translations in square brackets].

Women, work
and the home

“Madam, – NÃl
aon tinteÃ¡n mar do thinteÃ¡n fein. [Irish phrase meaning there’s no place like home, literally, no fireplace like your own fireplace]. Of course,
an tinteÃ¡n is fast receding into fadÃ³ fadÃ³ [long, long ago], but the profound verity that is the
essence of the seanfhocal [Irish phrase] will always be the truth of the human condition. More heart than hearth, it is a
humano-spiritual rather than physical structure, a warm cocoon enveloping the
very chrysalis of human society. To grow
into it and out of it is the natural right of every person.

However Â–
and indeeed, however well Â– non-parental childcare is funded, an tinteÃ¡n is not
to be found in creche or kindergarten, pre-school or after school, and hardly
in a couple of nightly hours of Â“quality timeÂ”.

Many women,
perhaps most women, now want to Â“workÂ”, i.e. to go every day to a workplace and
to take part in everything that passes there.

To
acknowledge readily that most of them work very well is not to forget that a
woman feels scant deference to logic and is wont to express the truth in such
an oblique way that it is scarcely recognisable. Thus, the true statement, Â“I want to go to
workÂ” is instead expressed as Â“I need to go to workÂ”; Â“I canÂ’t afford not to go
to workÂ”; Â“the ends that I think should meet cannot be made to meet unless I go
to workÂ”; Â“I must go to work to provide adequately for my childrenÂ”; or, even,
Â“my children will be better off by being without me for most of their daylight
hoursÂ”.

I feel sure
that an tinteÃ¡n will continue to recede until women of some future generation
become so alive to their own deprivation that they will resolve that their
children must be preserved from tinteÃ¡n-deprivation.

-Yours etc.

Frank
Farrell
Lakelands
Close
Stillorgan
Co. Dublin”

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on 26 September 2005 at 13:07

Don’t sweat it, girls: Frank is a well-known ‘commentator’ on these and other social issues. And has his own unique insights to offer, naturally.
SPUC: an Gaeilge: what everyone else should do about their vile unIrish life and ways; the evils of computers in schools…agus mar sin de…
What I can’t understand is why the Times keeps giving him space.

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geepeemum

on 26 September 2005 at 19:55

He’s obviously VERY bored. We must think of something to occupy his time. Any one know any JW’s who live near him?

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on 26 September 2005 at 22:06

JW’s? See…. this is more of it — another woman who offers scant deference to logic and is wont to express the truth in such an oblique way! How is a tinte?n-deprived digital journeyman to cope with all this. 😉

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on 27 September 2005 at 11:16

I bet Frank’s single and childless.

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on 27 September 2005 at 15:48

And this is an absolute disqualification from life, Ms Pog? 😉

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on 27 September 2005 at 15:53

Single, childless and writing silly pompous letters like that? Yes, I think so, Doc. It’s the combination, you see. (I would assume the same if it was a woman writing along the same lines (and yes, I am also both).)

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on 27 September 2005 at 23:10

ahh the combination’s the thing. Right. Would agree absolutely so… 🙂

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on 28 September 2005 at 10:38

Phew. Think I got away with that one …..
Ahem. 😉

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