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Depilation and phoney cooks 5/06/09

We got a quote on having shutters made for our two bedroom windows; €2000, which isn’t feasible at the minute, and surprisingly expensive. How can everyone afford shutters if that is the price? And most houses have shutters. We can’t get aircon in our bedroom because that requires the ugly looking fan being attached to the outside wall, but we are in the historic part of town and it isn’t allowed. So we have bought a second hand Pinguino – a mobile aircon unit which actually is massive and takes up loads of space and you have the window open anyway for the exhaust pipe to out through. It seems that it doesn’t do much either. … ahhh, well I guess we can sell it if we ever get our shutters … We had Amy Winehouse in the bar last night with dark curls and red lipstick.She grinned her wide red smile at me and asked asking the barman to make her a vodka and watermelon cocktail … and there he was in the kitchen struggling manfully to carry back the watermelon to the bar and chop up for her. H...