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We shuffled some of it around this weekend, because we finally moved the mirror in the dining room so I can't see myself in it so often, and now have a panel-type display on the chimneybreast.
Voice Post: Potty training ailbhe 2007
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"Bawboo NEA!" was too cute to resist, so up they went - a row of baubles at the top of the curtains, and a row over the chimneybreast in the library, over the painting which hangs over the... radiator.
Christmas?! ailbhe 2005
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It even took a while for the chimneybreast to become a standard fitting, a lung-saving amenity that tended to automatically divide even the humblest home into a space for preparing the gruel, and a space where you went to sit and attempt to digest it.
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