Category Archives: Shopping

Coming home to roost

Posted on May 25, 2024 by martin

A major Dublin shopping centre has gone into receivership. The only surprise is how long it took and it is yet another sign of how Ireland’s stupidly harsh Covid-19 lockdown simply destroyed lives and livlihoods. For context I finally fled … Continue reading →

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The short-cut

Posted on January 6, 2020 by martin

There is an interesting thing about Stansted Airport’s layout The security checking area is bottom-left, after which you walk along the light-grey path that is about half way up the left-hand side, and the gates are off the top-left corner. … Continue reading →

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Country not available..?

Posted on November 16, 2016 by martin

So much for trying to find some electrical plugs.. Admittedly electrical plugs are not the sort of thing normally bought through such a site, but it happens that the Chinese CPCS-CCC and the New Zealand NZS 3112 are compatible with … Continue reading →

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