(hopefully) catching up!

I still have water and I am enjoying every minute of it. It really made me think about how much water we flush down the toilet every day. Seems like such a waste. Maybe I should change my career and become and inventor.

Weekends have been lovely. Beautiful sunny weather, but as awlays they are way too short.
IMMA has a nice exhibition of photographs from New York; I really enjoyed that one. Also Turners watercolours are on display in the National Gallery. I really liked the earlier pieces.

Today's shot shows the fragillity of our infrastructure in this beautiful country (or in other words it's a picture of telephone cables in my neighbourhood. I always have to smile when I see this array of cables connecting the houses in a spider like fashion.

we still have water

life is good!

I had a shower :)

... at home. We have water now 'til 7 pm and the air lock has been fixed.

Showering at home just feels like an indulgent luxury:)

Glorious weekend

We laughed a lot, chatted a lot, ate out a lot and investigated the nightlife together.
Having a good friend over is priceless!
I am recharged and ready for the next battle (just still hoping the water will be back one day).

good news...

...our neighbour has running water. It can only be a matter of time now 'til we can enjoy a shower in our own 4 walls again.

In other news the weather has started to be mild and lovely (and a bit rainy). No sign of winter anymore.

trying to be patient :)

I have been waiting for this Friday. A very good friend will come to spend the weekend and I wanted things to be perfect.

It will be an interesting weekend; no sign of any water and it seems no masterplan in place yet. To add to the craig the electricity is now flaky as well (as in there was none all morning :)).

I don't want this to become the blog of the biggest whiner in Ireland so I wish everyone a happy early weekend as I have a FREE day and am really looking forward to the weekend.

waterless for a change - day 4

You guessed it, we are without water for a change. Funny how quickly one can adapt to the situation.

I had a warm shower at work this morning. It felt like heaven.

There is a nice article in one of the German papers about the arctic temperature crisis in Ireland. There is a lot of truth in this one :)

Otherwise it's back to wind rain, wind and more rain. Lovely! It's a great place to be in January.

You almost guessed it - Looking for water day 3

The situation is not getting much better. The beautiful winter wonderland has vanished and instead we have wind and storm. The floods haven't quite reached Dublin yet, but there are rumours that they are already roaming elsewhere in the country.

The water situation however has not improved. There is no water to be had and our county has now officially switched off supplies 'til 4 am (so far it was only running on so low pressure that it sadly never reached the flat), but there is more to life than taking a hot shower right? It's really fine. I think it's a good thing to be reminded again of how many commodities we take for granted every day.

Looking for water - Day 2

Still haven't found any. It does not look like the water crisis is over any time soon.

On the bright side; the news are predicting floods on the next 24 hours...

Looking for water

RTE news warned to preserve water. At a visit to Tesco I noticed that the shelf with drinking water was empty and I was secretly amused how easily people panic when they see warnings on the news.
Back home I tried to go for a shower, but there was no water coming from the mains. Not laughing quite so hard any more...