one further weekend note

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I bought a jacket. Specifically, we wandered along the seafront between Sandycove and Dun Laoghaire, and then decided to head straight into town rather than going back to the house. This meant I had nothing to wear over my tshirt if it got cold or started raining. So we stopped at a tourist trap^Wshop in Temple Bar and I poked dejectedly at the stack of hoodies with "Temple Bar" and "Ireland" emblazoned across the front, before discovering a natty Guinness jacket in the back of the store which had just a small Guinness logo on the left breast and was otherwise a plain black jacket. €45.00 isn't much of an impulse purchase, but it's probably more than I've spent on clothing in the last year or so.