Tuesday night with the girls!

My best friend Alice and twin sister Amy called over for nibblies and a catch up last night.  It was Alice's first time seeing the house so she had a good look around the place and then said the nicest thing about the house!

We had quite a smorgasbord to eat.  Alice had brought some sushi and salmon mousse with her.  Amy brought some indian chicken pakora's with a beautiful sauce and I had made pizza and mac & cheese.  We also had red pepper hummus with bruschetta.  For dessert Alice supplied gorgeous mini Key Lime Cheesecakes and we also had beautiful little salted caramel and chocolate bites.  All delicious!!!

                                                              Amy & Alice

                                             Me talking and eating, as usual!

                                Mini Key Lime Cheesecake

World Squash Masters

Ciaran is currently in Bermingham, UK for the World Squash Masters.  He won his first two matches!  Further results to follow...


                                         Warming up!

                                         Action shot!

                                                Mid match coaching!

Unfortunately the Aussie was too good for him and he got beaten in his third match.  At this point he will come somewhere between 9th and 16th place - not too shabby!!!

We moved in!

Wow what a busy week!

We moved in to the house on Friday night.  We then spent all weekend unpacking boxes - still not done!

We then received our first house guests on Monday!  Dave and Megan came over from the States for the Bruce Springsteen concert and we were just about able to offer them a bed to sleep in!

I had taken Mon-Thurs off work and boy did I need it.  I had people calling to fix things and set up things all week - I had hoped that the Intenet, Phone & TV would be set up by the time I came back to work today but unfortunately it will be Monday before I am hooked up.

We had a great night on Wednesday for the Bruce concert.  We went to Tribeca in Ranelagh for big burgers (sustenance) before the show and then walked to the concert venue (stopping off for a drink in Kiely's of Donnybrook on the way.  We used to live all the way over the other side of the city so if we were going to a concert in this particular venue we would generally have got the bus or train over and then a taxi back home. It was brilliant to be able to walk - only about a half hour each way!  Bruce Springsteen was phenomenal, he played for nearly three and a half hours.  The weather had been really bad all day with bigh heavy rain downpours intermittenly but amazingly it stayed dry for the whole concert.  I enjoyed all of his songs but in particular "Because the night" which he performed with his wife Patti.

Today I came back to work, Megan and Dave headed off to Paris and later on Ciaran leaves for Birmingham for the World Squash Masters. I have the house to myself all weekend and then my sister is coming to stay with me for a few nights on Monday evening.  I have promised her a curry from "Diep at Home"!!!

Below is Bones in the basket of a Dublin Bike.  The Dublin Bike Scheme is so great - €10 for a years subscription and access to the Dublin Bike Network.

Let's conversate!!

The conversation pit in the front room is nearly built!

There are drawers under the bench for storage which is so convenient as there is not so much storage space in the house as a whole.  We also don't like "stuff" lying around, we prefer to have it put away in its home and only taken out when it is in use.

Can you imagine yourself sitting here chatting to people at the house warming party?!

Push for the finish line

Huge amount of activity at the house this week.  There is a final big push to get everything finished and ready for us to move in to on Friday.  The bench seats are being completed as well as the painting and a few other bits and pieces. 


                Here's a picture of the bench in the kitchen.

I wonder how many people will comfortably sit on this bench?! 


We are planning on just moving the beds in on Friday and then we can move everything slowly in after that.


Even though we are sure to be extremely busy on Friday evening, Ciaran is planning on playing a game of squash in the middle of the move as he is training hard for the World Masters which he is travelling to Bermingham for in a week's time.


I have taken a few days off work next week to try and organise things and we also have Bruce Springsteen tickets for his concert in the RDS on Wednesday night........busy busy!!!

Lenticchia!

Peter Zumthor's "Lenticchia" lights have been fitted in the master bedroom.

I think these floating orbs are stunning! You can't see any of the fittings or how they are suspended - amazing!

The front door has been painted a really smart red colour. 

Grooming a Shi Tzu!

Bones went for a groom yesterday.  He gets groomed by Jason, in Puppy Kutz (Ph. 085 843 8789), who always does a marvellous job and really looks after Bones.

  

When Bones got in to the car I noticed he had a cute little bow attached to his collar.  It had a little badge attached that said "My groomer loves me" - how adorable is that!

Here is a short video of Bones that you may find funny! ;-)