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I spent the weekend at home in Kanturk. It's really nice to spend some proper time with the family. This particular time I managed to get a lot of things done. My wife presented me with a list (she always does) and I had finished all but two of the items by the time I went to bed on Friday (and no, there weren't only two items to start with!).

The two best parts of the weekend were:

• Going to watch "Home on the Range" at the Cosey cinema in Kanturk. I wouldn't rate HOTR as the greatest film I've ever seen, but it was fun and the real customers enjoyed it. I'm still amazed at the speed at which they consume popcorn. One little observation about HOTR, is that the animation had simple drawings. It would appear that Computer Generated images (or at least images that look like Computer Generated Images) haven't taken over yet


• Helping one of my daughters construct a model of a fairground from cereal boxes. I was cast in the role of "structural engineer", which was pretty hard as some of the things she wanted to do placed enormous demands on the materials.
  I guess I really am a "family man".

The single thing which took up most of the time was chopping some logs ready for the winter fire. It seems a shame to be burning oak, but it's all from limbs which the tree surgeons took off my trees and isn't suitable for woodwork (actually, you can tell from the weight, or lack of it, that some on the branches are pretty rotten inside, so it's a good job they were taken down).

No news at all on the "bats" front. My wife tells me that they are still in residence, but it was cool at the weekend so we couldn't hear them, and I didn't stand outside to observe them making their exits.

...and Cork won the hurling, so that was good as well.