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Cover Reveal: Touching the Surface, Pushing the Limits and Reunited.

 

Touching the Surface 

by Kimberly Sabatini

Life altering mistakes are meant to alter lives…

When Elliot dies for the third time, she knows this is her last shot. There are no fourth-timers in this afterlife, so one more chance is all she has to get things right. But before she can move on to her next life, Elliot will be forced to face her past and delve into the painful memories she’d rather keep buried. Memories of people she’s hurt, people she’s betrayed…and people she’s killed.

As she pieces together the mistakes of her past, Elliot must earn the forgiveness of her best friend and reveal the truth about herself to the two boys she loves…even if it means losing them both forever.

Pushing The Limits

by Katie McGarry

In Pushing the Limits, two teens, brought together by their court ordered therapist, work together to learn the secrets of their case files, but neither foresaw the shattering consequences of the learning the truth regarding their families or of falling in love.

Reunited 

by Hilary Weisman Graham

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The National Craft and Design Fair

As I said on Wednesdaty, my wife and I went out to the National Craft and Design Fair in the RDS. I thought I'd share some pictures from our day out to start the Christmas season.

This fair is on every year and really does have some great selections from Irish businesses. There's very little in the way of chains present, and if you look around you'll find things to suit most budgets.

It's great seeing the place decked out with Christmas lights. People were also generally polite and helpful. Great Christmassy atmosphere.

This stall was selling a new type of syrup they've invented, made from apples. It's like a kind of apple honey, called Highbank Orchard Syrup. We tasted some and just had to buy a couple of bottles.

There was a craft section dominating the center of the main hall, with people working a pottery display right there at a stall.

Almost everything you see there is some form of biscuit. Yum.

This is another stall that drew us in. Banshee Legend is a new whiskey-based liquer with a hint of ginger. Very nice, and I'm not normally a whiskey drinker. We picked up a bottle, but it's also available in the Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson Street in Dublin.

A close-up of Banshee Legend. I love the design of the bottles.

Lots of the stalls have some really great and unique gift ideas for kids as well as adults.

Everything here is hand made and beautifully glazed. Unlike a lot of the pottery on sale at the fair, this stall had some really reasonable prices, too.

If any of you ever get the chance, I can only recommend going to the fair. Tickets are €10 and if you get a return pass before leaving, you can come back any day during the fair for no charge. It's a great way to get into the swing of things for Christmas, though it can be tiring to walk around all the stalls, so small children are likely to get bored easily.

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Lifting the lid on Japanese toilets

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Have I ever mentioned before how one simple thing would hugely improve my life? A toilet that actually flushes properly and doesn't leave you staring down the bowl for the next ten minutes ensuring nothing has popped back round the U-bend and waiting for the cistern to refill enough to reflush. A toilet that doesn't require several buckets full of water lobbed down it every few months to clear the expensive blockage of built up debris the feeble flush hasn't shifted. In short a proper toilet like we used to have in the old days before Eco-toilets were forced on us.

Economy model featuring temperature adjustment and two different spray functions

And so this brings me to the ultimate toilet... the Japanese toilet.. complete with a minimum of three different orifice sprays, (as in three different sprays not three different orifices - although you never know) heated bog seat and a flush enough to whisk away the most defiant of debris.

Obviously at first we showed the natural British reticence when confronted with anything remotely resembling a bidet.  But soon the warmth of the seat (which normally one would treat with the slight repugnance of knowing it had only just been vacated) became quite relaxing.  By the time we had reached our second hotel I had tested out a few of the sprays - just for research purposes obviously. At the third hotel the sound of laughter coming from the toilet room assured me that the Bedsock was joining in the research process too.  It took a while to realise the optimum position to sit in order to achieve a full 'wall of water' spray in the correct location - Japanese bottoms are doubtless (like most things Japanese) more compact than British ones.

Mid-range model with 3 sprays (never did really get the difference between first two options)

The toilet seats come with their own control panels and, more worryingly, sometimes a notice saying beware electrocution! As the instructions were almost invariably in Japanese it took a while to work out what all the various controls did resulting in a rather hot bottom when I turned the heating controls up too far.

Super deluxe all singing and dancing option but I couldn't work out which was the flush!

The more luxurious the accommodation we stayed in, the better the bog seat.  We were vastly taken with the one at our final ryokan which opened its lid when you entered the room and played soothing music.  Less so with a previous one which without being asked, played crashing wave music every time I performed my ablutions but studiously avoided doing so for the Bedsock!

Clearly these are not toilets that you would want to share with others without some provenance of  them being thoroughly cleaned prior to use so we were amazed to find that even the most humble of motorway stations had public toilets with these capabilities. As someone who either spends ten minutes lining any public bog seat with paper prior to ablutions and has perfected the art of hovering high above, the idea of using these was a step too far.  Perhaps it is different for the Japanese - their obsession for pefectly packaging and presenting everything may give some truth to a phrase that passed for wit in my teenage years "X is so perfect their shit comes out pre-wrapped in plastic".

But unfortunately whilst suffering from toilet envy we must take into account the ecological unsoundness of Japanese toilets. Apparently Japan has closed most of its nuclear reactors and my understanding is that it has been able to do this because people are using less electricity in their homes. Unplug a few heated bog seats and another nuclear reactor could be shut down.

Sadly, knowing I am doing my bit to save the world doesn't make me feel any better about my own toilet's failure to flush and I am already missing the 'bidet' setting on the hot seat.