Dublinia

Saturday, 23 March 2013

Medical lecture in Trinity College

Myself, Katie and a friend of mine went to a medical talk in Trinity College last Wednesday.

Myself and Katie had initially actually planned to go to a talk in the National Library on Kildare Street on DNA testing and the use of DNA testing in tracing your family tree/roots.

However then Cillian texted me to see if I wanted to go to a talk on Cancer in Trinity that same evening, so Katie and I said we'd go to that instead.

The talk was presented by a doctor from the the Biomedical department in Trinity. It was about cancer cells and how they proliferate and the work that this department is doing in researching how to target (and destroy) cancer cells. They are doing this work with a particular compound (not named as far as I could discern :-) Top Secret!) on the cell during a particular piece of the tumour cell growth process.

I won't lie to you. It went waaaay over my head.

But I still enjoyed it - both doing something different in the evening in Dublin, plus also I enjoyed challenging my mind (even though, as I noted, it went way over my head!).

Monday, 18 March 2013

DIY: New Ironing board cover

My ironing board has been in very bad shape for a long while now. And for a long while now I have been intending to do something about it!

So today during a trip to Ikea today I picked up a new cover. It was only €4.75. What a bargain.

Voila!

It's like a new ironing board!

Ikea rocks!

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Spot the Difference!

Can you see any difference with these three photos?!

Review: Botanical Choice Exfoliating Foot Mask

This foot mask is available for €3.50 in Penneys.

You can't argue with that price, so now let's see if it works!

Inside the packet are two plastic "socks" with the product inside.

One cuts the top of the socks with a scissors and put ones feet inside for 60-90 minutes.

Okay so let's get the gross picture out of the way:

Yes these are my trotters :-(

As noted abve you leave your feet in the socks for 60-90 minutes.

As you have seen my feet are baaaaad so I did it for the full 90 minutes.

You then rinse the product off with water. My feet felt a little tingly at this point.

This is a pic of my feet after rinsing etc.

Okay! So now the fun starts.

Over the next 5 days, apparently all the bad icky skin on my feet will litterally just peel/fall off.

I shall report back in over the few days to let you know if this product works and what my thoughts are about it.

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23/03/2013
Update:

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Saturday, 16 March 2013

Marks and Spencer Restaurant Dublin

Marks and Spencer in Grafton Street has a very nice restaurant up on the top floor.

The decor / interior design of this restaurant is very very cool.

Mid 20th century chic!

Lounge lizard :-)

Eames inspired chairs

How cool is this vibe!

I think this picture pays nice homage to a cool bottle/brand in a very cool restaurant:

I'd recommend you check it out next time you are in Grafton Street!

If you liked this blog post I think you will very much like to see my very cool upcycled cocktail bar/drinks cabinet project! <= click on the link :-)