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  • Walls, Fletchers, and Games

    The Wall Building will Continue until Morale Improves Yes, I have brutalised myself, but all in the name of progress. The wall has come together quite quickly. Is it perfect? Far from it, but it hasn’t fallen down yet and doesn’t look horrendous. It is a long overdue project as I hated the old pseudo-brick…

  • Split Slate and Fiction

    A little bit of gaming, and a little bit of DIY. The dry stone walling workshop at Quince Honey Farm was fun, and though the stones were heavy, the detail was light. The most important messages I took away were to just give it a try. And backfill. Lots of backfill. In this context it’s…

  • Reading on a Deadline

    Because what better way is there to relax than a threat of impending confiscation… The Library No, I’m not talking about your Steam Library. Or your PlayStation catalogue. We are discussing brick-and-mortar (and sometimes chassis in the case of vans) libraries. I have an on-again, off-again relationship with the library system. It was a convenient…

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  • What’s happening in OC (Oregon City, that is)

    A lot has happened in the few short days since my last post. I mean a lot. It’s hard to think of even where to begin. No photos again, as you’ll notice, thanks once more to the limitations of my phone/lapdock combo. The only good thing about it at the moment is that it’s keeping…

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  • Settling in

    Hello from Portland, Oregon! Well, we’re actually in Oregon City which isn’t that far away, and is a pretty nice area. Oregon is a very green state, and around here it feels like the houses are just planted in the middle of a massive forest. No photos as of yet, mainly because the lapdock has…

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  • Night gathers, and now my travels begin

    Portland, baby! I had originally intended this to be a longer post, but because of time constraints and ridiculous ambitions to fix a dlsr lens whilst packing, I didn’t get much of a chance. I’m sitting on the bus from Banbridge to Dublin with Alan, and starting to get excited about the mammoth trip we’re…

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  • Beautiful weather…shame about the exams

    I love this weather! Sun splitting the trees, the streets crowded with happy people, the option to leave the house without carrying a coat or jumper. My phone captured it pretty well. It was the busiest I’ve seen the city centre in a good while. Everything about it is fantastic, and best of all it…

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