I just cant stop thinking about how
@ZaraKing
and
@newschambers
are house mates... Do they say “back over to you” when one finishes talking? Do they swear around the house?! I’ve so many questions....
My son is almost 2 and sleeps beside me in his cot. He starts to stir around 5am and says “morning” or “hi mama” but if I show him Im still “asleep” he drifts back off… the other morning he said “Hi Niamh”, I started to laugh so now that’s what I’m waking up to every day since🤣
Watching Ukrainian men kissing their wives and children goodbye, at Dublin airport, to go home and fight has broken me. I hope and pray they’ll see each other again someday 💔
Brother-in-law is Covid positive. Wife and kid are off to her mothers as they’re negative. We just FaceTimed them… he has beer chilling in the fridge and the TV to himself for the day and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happier man 😆
After we got married the odd person would ask when we were going to have kids. Personally, it never bothered me. HOWEVER since having a child I’m constantly being asked when are we having another and it would be “cruel” to only have one. Drives me insane!
Also, I feel really anxious about posting on twitter recently. I have the loveliest group of twitter friends but terrified of saying the wrong thing and offending someone 😬
@catherineburnsx
@jenbren1976
It’s because Niamh is an Irish name but there’s no “V” in the Irish language. However the “mh” together gives you the “V” sound, hence the pronunciation “Neve”. 🙅🏼♀️
Today is the first day that I’ve really been in our new house on my own. I keep waiting for the estate agent to call and be like “Get out!” 🤣 Traumatised. It feels so strange being here. Slowly starting to feel like I can let go of some of the tension from the last few months.
Hi, I need help please. I’m trying to knit a jumper for a battery hen, with no feathers who need some extra warmth coming into the winter but I’m stuck... Has anyone knitted them before? Retweets appreciated 💗🐔
Me breaking my back all week trying to hold down a job, dropping baby to childcare, preparing lunches, baths, cutting nails, going to car wash, sorting recycling, washing bed clothes, getting hair cut…
Baby’s first words: “Where’s Dada?” 🫠
I found this phone on the Kilkenny Road area of
#Carlow
if anybody recognises the profile pic. Possibly a student from
@itcarlow
Nothing more annoying than losing your phone, pls RT.
Sitting in the GP waiting room yesterday morning… some people on their phones, others staring into space but all sitting in silence when a man walks in and says “Morning everyone” and sits down. Strange strange people out there 🤯
We got the keys to our new house last Friday… Thank you so much for all the words of encouragement last month 💗 My god, were we not prepared for the amount of work that has been put in over the last week but it’s been great. Feeling so lucky 🥹🏡
Yesterday we came within hours of losing the house we’ve been preparing to buy for the last 4 month. I can count on 2 fingers the amount of times my heart felt like it was physically breaking and this is the 3rd time. Still reeling today.
Genuinely blown away by how lovely people are... I sent out my 'Hey, im going on maternity leave' email to customers today and the love and well wishes ive been getting back all day is just incredible😭People are so kind ❤️
I saw someone here say that people should be entitled to walk their dog in peace. There’s not a dog I don’t say hello to when I pass and, where possible, ask if I can pet them (except working dogs, obvs). I’ve never once got a bad vibe off a dog owner. Now Im paranoid 😢
When my parents told me, decades ago, “Your bedroom is always here for you” I bet they didn’t think I’d hold them to it as I arrive up again this morning…. “Oh you’ve more storage boxes to drop off 😳” They have patience of a saint… be lost without them 😆
This will be our first Summer ever to have our very own back garden… I want to make it into the most magical place ev-er! Drinking wine by candle light at dusk wrapped in blankets with twinkling lights. Cant wait 🥹
I don’t think I ever really appreciated just how beautiful Irish girls and boys names are until now. How do you begin to decide on a name for a human?! Twas hard enough to name the cat! 😄
Bringing baby to Dublin today to get his first haircut. He’ll sit in a little car, while watching cartoons on his own personal tv, will get a cert to say he had a hair cut, as well as a lollipop & a balloon… Now in my day Mam would just cut your hair with the house scissors!
Just a tip incase anybody else has nervous cats or dogs (especially around fireworks season), this pillow has worked a treat in making this little rescue feel safe and calm 💗
I have just seen the house has gone Sale Agreed without any correspondence back from the agent after a month of chasing him. Im 50% enraged and 50% heartbroken right now 💔
Put an offer in on a house on Monday… Have had zero acknowledgment of the offer. Have sent a follow up email and phoned today. Still nothing. Like… 🤷🏼♀️
An observation...through work, Id need to ask customers for their eircode. From now compared to 12 months ago the amount of ppl who now know theirs off by heart is like night & day. From First Aid training, knowing your eircode can save vital moments for an ambulance. Go us! 💪🇮🇪
The bin truck arrived much earlier this morning than usual so as I ran out to drag the bin to the path it drove off and I whispered to myself “f**k sake”. BUT OF COURSE that was overheard by the toddler & repeated multiple times since! 🫠
After weeks and weeks of being stressed to the high heavens, this morning I woke and for the first time in a long time I feel that maybe, just maybe, everything will work out *touches wood*, Its a good feeling 🙂
I can’t believe its been 8 weeks since she gave me her last kiss. I think about her every single day and I dream about her all the time. I knew I’d miss her but I could have never prepared myself for just how much. My heart aches for her 💔
Mam sent this to me earlier.... the little girl that lives next to my parents made them a socially distant snowman for their pillar... Mam was chuffed. It’s the little things that matter right now 🥺
House hunting is mad! All I want is a 7 bed, en-suite, 5 acre of land, indoor/outdoor swimming pool,, paddocks, helipad, 5 car garage, Koi pond for ~ €200k. Am I asking too much like?!
An individual stole my bag last night in a Temple Bar pub... she watched as I searched for it everywhere. I made eye contact with her & I just knew she had it. The Gardai were called & I managed to get it back after confronting her (she’s out on probation). Feeling powerful 💪
Decided to give my 1yo his first shower. Bathroom was nice & cosy, warm fluffy towels waiting to wrap him up in, Baby Shark playing in the background…We step in…
Well!!!!! I’m surprised the Gards didn’t call to do a welfare check after the screams from him! Baths it is so 🫠
Yesterday we came within hours of losing the house we’ve been preparing to buy for the last 4 month. I can count on 2 fingers the amount of times my heart felt like it was physically breaking and this is the 3rd time. Still reeling today.
Just out of the shower. Put on my finest pjs. Sprayed myself with my “special occasion” Chanel perfume. Lit some candles and now I’m going to open the bottle of champagne I was keeping for tomorrow night.... everything will be alright.
Taking a trip over to Wexford this morning to collect the new travel system for the baby… I feel like I’m 5 years old again and Its Christmas morning when you wake to find Santa has left a new doll and pram 👶🏻🥲
We bought a new car yesterday based on the number of doors it had and it having a “good sized boot”. So this is what it feels like to take others into consideration... I’m scared 😄
If the new neighbour, who’s partying a lot, knocks at your door to apologise and says “I don’t want to be known as that selfish prick…” is it ok to say “Well you are so… 🤷🏼♀️”?
(They just wound down at 6am!)
#apartmentliving
After many tears this evening, my sister and I made the decision to not spend Christmas with our parents... no hugs, no xmas cracker jokes, no bored games, no laughs... I know there are much worse off people this year but feeling so down tonight 😔
My Dad keeps WhatsApp’ing me links to funny cat videos on Facebook… I don’t have the heart to tell him that I haven’t been on FB for 10 years and can’t view them, I just keep responding with “🤣🤣”.
I would see these tents go up and be filled with dread at the thoughts of wild and endangered animals being used for our entertainment. Thanks to the ban, the only animals in the show were dogs, some sheep and ducks. A massive step in the right direction.
Oisín has his first GAA training session this morning…. Already getting teary 🥹Hope he doesn’t use the F-word after yesterday in front of the other 2 year olds. Imagine the shame from the other parents 🤣
I want to put into context of how special today was while we watched our Dad run the
#DCM
, a few years ago he lost all of his hair when he underwent treatment, life was uncertain. Today he ran 42 kilometres... (see my last post) 🙂 Again, well done everyone
#DCM19
I’m going to Paris next week with the girls to celebrate the start of the next decade of life… but wow how fast have the last 10 years gone. It was amazing 🥹
One of the changes I want to make this year is to go out for a walk without listening to music/podcasts and be more “in the moment”. Its definitely harder than I imagined 😑
Does anybody else’s pet have a blanky? 🙂 This was originally a blanket that the
@DublinSPCA
gave us to bring the kitten home 7 years ago, it’s more of a rag now but still loved as much as the day we got her 🥺💗
Our family dog turns 15 next month... there isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t tell her how much we love her. Our lives are so much better because of this beautiful ball of fur 😘🙂
@JamesKavanagh_
Gonna put it out there.... my dream nap takes place on a Sunday afternoon after being on the sesh the night before, you have The Antiques Roadshow/Downton on... it’s cold and raining outside, you’re in your cosies and there’s only one thing left for you to do... Nap.
My son hit me in the face with my hairbrush this morning as I was lying in bed. He wanted to 'bush' my hair. You'd miss the standard alarm clock all the same....
A pet peeve of mine is when people ask “Have you got a family?”, aka “Have you got children?”.
It is possible to have a “family” when you have a partner, parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, pets, or friends who are as good as family 😖
Just a reminder everyone: Dermot Bannon’s OWN HOUSE is on Room To Improve tonight at 9:30 RTE 1. Givin that it’s the last day of the Xmas we’ve got in a bottle of white especially 😃 Look, you have to take the little wins in January when you can 🤗
So sad to see the beautiful trees cut down Brownshill Dolmen in Carlow… I’d love to know the reasoning behind it
@opwireland
Before & After photos attached 🥺
New car comes with a feature, when you reverse it dulls down the music… so now you can feel like you’re driving in the car with your Mam ALL the time 🙈
Morning Everybody 😃 Up bright and earlier this morning to get my vote done at 7am because I just can’t wait one more single second for this. I’m not crying... you are! 😭
There are two types of people in this world...
The people who rhyme off words from the Nato Alphabet like CHARLIE, ALPHA, TANGO.
And the people who say C for Cabbage, A for Alien and T for Turtle.
This day 5 years ago I went to the polling station & voted in the
#MarRef
before heading to Dublin to celebrate my own impending nuptials. I remember the energy in the air was just electric. What a weekend and what a result 💪🏳️🌈
Is anybody else living with a DVD Player dilemma? Haven’t used it in 8 years but not a chance of it being thrown out! Its destined to just sit in the TV unit looking at you forever.
I thought this was obvious, but I'll share a top tip! If you're going to ring a business because you need help... be respectful to whoever you deal with. If you are, the chances are they'll go the extra mile for you.
I wish I could do a Carrie Bradshaw and keep this apartment forever because I’m silently crying here on the balcony thinking about all the heart to hearts, the laughs, the tears, that went on out here over the last 15 years 🥺 I hope the new owners will be good to her 🥺