plaster

A 2-post collection

Day 10 - A geek's DIY dream
Michelle Gallen
dreamsplaster

Day 10 - A geek's DIY dream

Last night I dreamt that the six year old and two year old had solved our crumbling plaster walls problem. In my dream they showed me how they simply cut the crumbling plaster from the wall and pasted it into a Word document, where they ran a kind of wallchecker that repaired the plaster. Once it was fixed, they showed me how to cut and paste the plaster back in place. In my dream I was amazed at their ingenuity and delighted we'd a DIY solution to our problem - and off we set, cutting and pasting our plaster from wall to Word and back, transforming

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Michelle Gallen
kitchenplaster

Day 3 - we meet the neighbours

The six year old was in forest school today, so Mehdi collected him (smelling of smoke and leaves, with a collection of whittled wood) and then drove to get the two year old at the crèche. I raced down the quays on foot to grab some half decent side dishes from M&S in Heuston station before meeting everyone in SuperValu where Mehdi was hunting for a hot chicken in a plastic bag. Food is an issue in our new place: the kitchen is unusable, and we need to clear a lot of stuff out before we can even move in a kettle, toaster and

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