It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

pigtail33

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The small ones are only €1 in Tesco! I think they call them medium, but they're the size of what always used to be considered small.

CheerLouth

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121761475#Comment_121761475

We used to get Good Friday off but we were taken over & now we don't get it any more.

I'm taking a few days off from Spy Wednesday & not back until the Tuesday. I take parental leave on Thursdays so I'll take the following Friday off too so will have two nice long weekends in a row.

BK5

Oh my christ!!!

It's just been announced that they are going to make a Gavin & Stacey Christmas special this year.

miamee

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Wow!! Oh I hope it'll be good one, sometimes they can drag the ar$e out of things and take the good out of it. But I did enjoy the previous special 🎅

Loughc

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Considering they left the last special on a cliffhanger they had to follow up on it, hopefully it's as good as the last one was.

pigtail33

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I think I remember having this discussion with you last year! We're the same, we used to get it off, but then the policy changed and we now have to work it. That was over 10 years ago and I'm still bitter about it!

DvB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763175#Comment_121763175

We discussed it earlier on the TV thread.

Oh my Christ is right!!😆

tscul32

Yesterday was gorgeous. Myself and a friend brought our two eldest elves to grangegorman to check out the TU Dublin campus, as both have TU courses on their CAOs. I really felt my age, what with my baby becoming an adult and all that, would love to be back in my carefree college days.

tscul32

We had American style buttermilk pancakes with bacon eggs and maple syrup for a late brekkie today and the batter for the more traditional English pancakes is in the fridge for supper. Those will be with sugar and lemon or choc spread and banana, whatever anyone wants. We enjoy pancake Tuesday. Well, eating them, anyway, cooking them for hungry teens isn't so much fun as they take ages.

Posy

I had pancakes, syrup and blueberries for lunch today and then pancakes with strawberries and nutella when I got home at 8pm.

There's still some batter left. Better dispose of it tomorrow. 👀

Posy

Next year Pancake Tuesday will be on March 4th and I've already decided I'm going to take the day off. 😁

Good Friday off work here too, so it's a nice little 4 day weekend.

StevenToast

So when our 9 month old gets tired and cranky and needs a nap, I am tasked with rocking her to sleep...

And she will cry and cry until i start singing jingle bells or Rudolph the red nose reindeer....then fast asleep.......ill probably be still doing it in the middle of July in 30 degree heat!

Christmas baby songs still blaring in the car also....she loves them!

CheerLouth

Happy Love Day, one and all! Not a day I particularly buy into but sure the kids were all excited. Little fella was so excited this morning I think he thought it was Christmas because he said "we normally go into the sitting room altogether, don't we"...God bless him, he's shocking cute when he wants to be 😂

Ash Wednesday as well..so we've been & gotten our ashes nice & early.

Loughc

Happy vASHentines Wednesday everyone!

tscul32

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I just finished off the batter here. Made another flipping 16 pancakes. Elves all delighted though. Eldest working on two Leaving Cert projects through the mid term break so I'm happy enough to keep him going with junky treats.

BK5

This day next month is Paddy's Day folks, so it will be here in 2 weeks ha ha.

Anyone any plans for the weekend? Enjoy it no matter what you're doing.

Loughc

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I’m down in the homeland showing off the baby and visiting my poor mam who’s in hospital.

CheerLouth

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Hope your Mammy will be on the mend soon!

BK5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121779093#Comment_121779093

A real milestone that, showing off your new baby, lovely.

All the best to your mother, get well soon Mammy Loughc.

pigtail33

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Hope Mammy Loughc will be back home soon to enjoy the time with her grandson.

Loughc

Thanks folks! Long road of recovery for mammy Loughc but as soon as she’s better we’ll be back down with the baby. Hopefully she’s been out by Mother’s Day.

DvB

Ah, fingers crossed everything works out for your family @Loughc

Cork Lass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121779093#Comment_121779093

Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery for your mom @Loughc 🤞.

Posy

Ah I'm sorry to hear that, Loughc. Fingers crossed she's out and on the road to recovery, even if it looks to be a long one, very soon. xx I'll bet she can't wait for a proper visit from the two lads!

Loughc

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Thanks again folks. Thankfully our two year old was able to send her a little video to say hi and that he’ll see her soon. She was delighted with it.

She got a refurbished iPhone for Christmas so she’s texting everyone like a teenager 😂

but she can get loads of pictures from us all now

taxAHcruel

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Right now I am overseeing a bunch of kids taking apart an absolute stack of old damaged bikes and individually cleaning all the parts with toothbrushes and the like. They are surprisingly focused on it. The plan is to use as many parts as possible to build working bikes that we will spray paint entirely black and gift to people who need them. The first of which - in the spirit of a book we once read - we are thinking to donate to a bully my daughter has recently acquired.

But the rest will likely go to sick or needy children somehow. Haven't entirely worked out the details on who will get them yet. Not even sure how many complete working bikes I can build from the parts yet. But I am heartened by the sheer number of donated junk we got. Was a lot more than I expected when we came up with the project.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121779093#Comment_121779093

Have a friend who's mother (80) just had a fall and a hip break. So also looking at a lengthy hospital recovery. Hospitals don't seem to be the most wonderful places to spend an eleongated, mostly bed confined, recovery time though. We are currently working on ideas to make the stay better - so throw any ideas out you might have.

Are hospitals the only option in Ireland for long term recovery like that? Or are there private options or similar you can opt for that might be more social and stimulating or comfortable? Friend doesn't seem to have heard of any yet and the nurses and the doctors have not mentioned alternative options to him either.

Loughc

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I’ll be honest I’m only concerned about my mother getting better and not the inner workings of the entire health department in Ireland and its many flaws.

They may not be the best place for prolonged stays but they are the best place certainly for my mam to recover. Their care and the staff have been nothing but exceptional and we owe them a massive debt of gratitude.

Posy

There are rehabilitation hospitals in Ireland, anyway. St Josephs hospital up the road from me in Raheny is used as a rehabilitation hospital for Beaumont Hospital patients.

taxAHcruel

Thanks muchly, I will pass on the recommendation. He is alas not in the right head space just yet to do much research himself. Give it a few days I guess. Shocks all around.

Princess Calla

Isn't there a big rehab place in dun Laoghaire or Blackrock.....I think it might be for major accidents though.