new ones 8 May 2008
Here’s a new one on me. A friend of mine in Dublin is a very erudite, educated woman who you could bring anywhere and know she’d be good company and fit in. She’s a successful, award-winning architect and a fluent Russian speaker, and so on. Anyhow, she was asked recently for her CV by an embassy in town…that they might consider asking her to dinner…like a job interview for all the world, without the actual having to go and talk herself up for said ‘job’ -! It’s a new one on me, I have to say.
She got her invite, by the by, though I have not yet asked if she enjoyed herself at it.
For those of you who have huge and preposterous notions about what we are having done to the house (especially because of the time i mentioned it will take) let me assure you that the extension is actually quite wee – what the major upheaval really is is that we are going green and installing solar panels, re-roofing the entire place and insulating it properly and introducing a water harvesting system. Joyce, a regular, has worried me by pointing out that an extension to a house is supposed to be to a woman’s hoohaa what a tattoo or a sportscar is to a man’s…dunno what my plans say about me so…tad worried now…
