Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Bikes for sale

For Sale:

My Trek 6500 SLR, Trek 1000 SL and my Raleigh “Mirage”

Adding my Cannondale Jekyll project:

Little nugget of Eve

Sat in bed this morning in stunned silence. Little Eve was sitting up on my chest, smiling and looking at each of her feet in turn, wiggling her toes on one foot, then looking at the other foot and wiggling the toes on that foot. We were actually watching her discover her feet. How cool is that?

Famous last words part deux

Courtesy of the Sunday Independent -

“Finance Minister Brian Lenihan claimed yesterday that the residential property market will stabilise following the transfer of toxic debt from the banks to Nama — and predicted that people will now begin to buy houses again. 

Yesterday, Mr Lenihan told the Sunday Independent: “One of the good things about the steep discount, averaging 47 per cent, is that the residential property market will now be stabilised at a realistic level.”

He added: “You can now buy in confidence that the price is realistic.”

The Finance Minister’s belief that the property market has hit the bottom will come as a surprise to a number of economists, and other observers of the market, who recently predicted a further decline.”

The Minister just can’t help himself, he’s obviously bursting with pride over his new child, NAMA, that he feels compelled to make even more fantastical predictions.  Famous last words.