This blog was originally started to track our progress as we regenerated a derelict Victorian house in Dublin. We turned an old crumbling ruin in to our dream house! If you wish to read through the trials and tribulations of the house build it is best to start at the oldest blog post and read in date order. The blog then evolved in to being all about my life in Dublin, Ireland and then life in Malaga, Spain with artist "PIGSY" and now back in Dublin
I hope you enjoy reading it!
I won't say things are going back to normal here in Ireland but things are beginning to restart. Shops opened last week with a Penneys/Primark opening welcomed a few days after some of the other shops.
Local to my workplace, Insomnia coffee shop is open for takeaway coffees and allows 4 people in the store at a time. Next door Meadows & Byrne opened but hasn't seemed to have had queues outside the door and visitor numbers seem manageable in the shop itself.
But of course with some shops opening, we are hearing of some shops that won't reopen. I would imagine many are re-imagining themselves as online stores rather than bricks & mortar shops.
And in the next stages restaurants will open followed by pubs and hairdressers. Hairdressers seems to be one that people are looking forward to - personally I'm not too bothered as I barely get my hair cut through the year and I'm fine with my balyage blonde highlights growing out.
So things are positive here in Ireland, numbers are good. We are still seeing daily deaths but they tend to be in the single digits and new cases are also diminishing. Let's keep practising good hygiene (masks are advised at this time but are not mandatory) and keep social distancing going and let's keep crushing this virus.
Wednesday was World Bicycle Day and I happened to be in the office that day so of course I rode my bike there and back (with a little help by getting the train some of the way).
My commute home was the fastest ever on the bike. At 5.42pm, I looked at train times and saw there was one at 5.49pm so I quickly made my way to the exit and cycled about a minute to the station. From there I had about a 2 min wait for the train which then took me to Lansdowne Station where I cycled home from and got in the door just a little after 6.10pm. Pretty much door to door it was 30 mins - not bad for Dun Laoghaire to Ranelagh!
Here's the tweet I sent on the way to work - I can't tell you how much I love that cup of coffee while waiting for the train, particularly on Wednesday as the weather had changed dramatically and it was very cold in comparison to the amazingly sunny day previous.
If you want to know more about the Brompton Bike that I am currently using to get to work, click the video below.
