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I recently purchased a collection of Ernest Hemingway's books and am currently reading 'The Sun Also Rises'. Not sure what to make of it, to be...
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Just started one of Mick Herron's Slow Horses thrillers, London Rules. Some of the books have been turned into a TV series with Gary Oldman starring....
Very much a Cinderella hobby these days and one wonders will it survive at all with the proliferation of self-adhesive stamps and the huge decline in...
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Bought three more tonight for less than £5 including p+p.
I've no time for the more recent, horribly commercial ones, or ones that have not been...
All the hype around Joyce's Ulysses at this time of year got me thinking about books that I can't get into and don't want to. Ulysses is definitely...
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I gave up on Tolkein's The Children of Húrin. I'll try again at some stage. It's first few pages are hard going and the story is a bit grim.
I never...
Right so, am heading to Germany at month end with the intention of buying a camper van so would welcome any practical advice from anyone who has done...
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Have a memorable road trip,and take plenty of pics. :lol:
I'll kick off with this all - in - one (CPU keyboard monitor) from 2000. This was on sale in the Gateway superstor in Liffey Valley shopping centre...
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Words like 'Banzai','Englander Pig Dog', 'Schweinehund]', 'Himmel Achtung' (usually shouted when a grenade landed amongst a group of German soldiers)...
In this case, glossy dustwrappers; I have searched in vain online and there's nothing that I can find. What I'm talking about is your typical modern...
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That's how to do it then.
Anything else is a half measure and won't have them like new.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an influencer and and no time for those types who seem to take up > 50 % of the Q outside the new grafton street store.
I...
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I'll admit the lego technic stuff interests me. But its too expensive. I do have a Class Xerion 5000 tractor and Mercedes Acros truck. Sitting in a...
Hey folks, made a simple and free firepit this evening and thought i would share. I went to the local dump, borrowed an old washing machine, took out...
I was told when I was a baby and had the whooping cough that my mother gave me turnip juice on the advice of my grandmother, to ease my symptoms and...
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My understanding of scouring is like what you do with a scouring pad? Something Horse/Mares Tail (aka Scouring Rush) used to be used for.
I'm a big fan of certain genres of Irish fiction including anything by William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Rearden Conner, John McGahern,...
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Generally, I'd rather have my thumbnails pulled out than read your modern Irish novelists but I enjoyed the cards of the gambler by Benedict Kiely...
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