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Irish artist Natalie Forrester in The Irish Times, speaks about her experience of the excellent childcare in Hungary
They do arts and crafts, sing, learn rhymes, plant flowers, play with oodles of toys and have a large school yard filled with swings, slides, wooden climbing frames and sandpits shaded by huge oak trees. Wolfie loves it so much we have to drag him out! (Not literally 🤣). It's free, you only need to pay approx €30 a month towards their breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks. it’s mind-boggling for me, standard for them. -
📘 Ulysses Page 003, Laz (the hub) begged me not to ever sell it!
Well, actually, there are plenty of shades of green in my interpretation of Ulysses Page 003, as I suspect Joyce knew there was more than one shade, just like the greens of the Irish Sea. -
📘 Ulysses Page 002 after a trip to the Adriatic 🌊
That may explain how I finished my first Ulysses painting when I came home from visiting the Adriatic.
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Watermelons, electricity, commissions
My Ulysses projects might not bear fruit in a season like this little watermelon, but its shelf life will be substantially longer! I hope all 933 artworks will keep giving joy for decades, maybe even centuries if they find the right homes. -
No artwork naming drama for the next 20 years!
Last Saturday night I was out in the garden watering my little watermelons 🍉, I waved at our neighbour who was up a ladder picking his cherries, when he motioned to me to meet me on the road... -
📘 My 20 year art project: 933 Ulysses artworks in the works!
My big Ulysses project will take approximately 20 years to complete, I'm excited, and terrified… sure I'd be mad if I wasn't!
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Day 5: The Reclaimed Gate
Day 5: The Gate Part 2. Using the wood from the roof of the outhouse we demolished, we made a gate. A few days earlier we demolished an outhouse which will be our new kitchen.
We kept the wood from the roof, so we could re-use it. Laz took it down it down from the roof and I took the nails out. We re-purposed the wood so not to waste anything and now it is a makeshift, temporary gate whilst we are renovating our house. Are you impressed we managed to make a design out of the odd ends of wood?!
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Day 5: The Gate Part 1
The Drama Lads! Day 5: The Gate Part 1... the drama lads! We had to widen the gate to let construction vehicles in.
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Day 4: The Wall Part 2 😂
Day 4: It's not as easy as it sounds to demolish a mud and straw wall!
This outhouse building will be our kitchen. It will be extended out by one meter and will have a sliding door leading onto a sun-drenched outdoor seated area. I can not wait to sit there sipping mojitos in the summer sun right where those bricks are. Do you think we can do it before this summer?
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We are all Mothers
As my Mum reminds me, it’s a thankless job (LOL Ma!), there is no big reward at the end, there are just moments. But you have to be present to notice them, you can’t wait for things to be calm and have that big house on the hill. Because that's all we have in the end: a montage of fleeting moments.
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Day 3: The Wall
Demolishing a mud and straw wall is harder than it looks! This outhouse building will be our future kitchen. It looks pretty unimpressive now but soon it will be extended out by one meter and will have a sliding door leading onto a sun-drenched outdoor seated area. -
🍕🍝 Too much pizza, pasta or Putin...
But I felt nauseous as we left Lake Garda and drove east home to Nyíregyháza, 64km from the Ukrainian border. I planned a lovely blog post with uplifting stories of our trip to Italy. How I found James Joyce and Monet in Trieste, caught the last days of carnival in Venice and reunited with old friends at Lake Garda. That was until everything change on the return trip home. From Lake Garda to Nyíregyháza it’s just over 1,000km so we stopped off in Slovenia for a night for the sake of our 3 year old (and our ears).
