title A Week in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland - 1st March 2011 intro Isobel has a work meeting for Qualcomm on East Point Business Park near Dublin Port, and so - as Nosher doesn't have much else to do at the moment on account of being made redundant - we all head over for the week. This mostly means hanging out with Fred during the day, although Evelyn takes Fred in to her creche for a few hours on three mornings. For some of the other free time, Nosher and Fred poke around Blackrock and the coast, and head in to Dublin on the train for a few hours. On the way over, our Ruinair 737 is broken as the bogs aren't working, so we all have to pile off and switch planes, which is a massive pain in the arse with the buggy and the metric tonne of toddler guff that has to be hauled around. imgp9416 Our broken Ruinair 737-800 at Stansted imgp9422 Brooding skies looking to Dun Laoghaire imgp9423 A dog walks on the water imgp9426 The woman and her dog go separate ways imgp9434 A woman on her mobile phone: "I'M ON THE SEA" imgp9436 Birds take to the air over Dublin Bay imgp9440 Election posters in Sandymount imgp9441 A CIE Class 141 loco rumbles across East Wall Road imgp9445 Goods wagon graffiti imgp9447 Isobel picks onions out of a hotdog for Fred imgp9450 Fred gets a bit of sausage imgp9452 Isobel and Fred on a bench imgp9453 Fred and Isobel roam the food stalls in East Point imgp9455 Fred looks around imgp9457 Fred leans on a hedge imgp9459 Roaming East Point business park imgp9460 Bare Silver Birch trees imgp9462 Fred and Evelyn go for a walk imgp9464 Evelyn picks Fred up imgp9468 Fred on a tree stump imgp9471 Messing around on the grass imgp9472 Fred gets the upside-down treatment with Evelyn imgp9474 Fred waves a duster around imgp9479 Fred on the platform at Blackrock DART station imgp9481 Fred gets to say "train coming" a lot imgp9488 On the DART imgp9490 The Dublin Customs House imgp9491 A lone dude sits over the Liffey at Eden Quay imgp9494 Ireland's Labour Party sign is upside-down imgp9498 Temple Bar graffiti imgp9499 Brightly-painted buildings in Temple Bar imgp9505 Nosher and Fred do pancakes in Temple Bar imgp9509 A view out of the café window imgp9510 Urban decay, Temple Bar style imgp9512 A dude on the corner of Price's Lane and Burgh Quay imgp9513 The "Heineken" Building imgp9514 Crossing on Bachelor's Walk imgp9515 A statue of O'Connell imgp9517 Fred on an escalator imgp9524 Fred on the DART again imgp9528 The derelict Blackrock Baths, behind the station imgp9534 Fred in the lift at the station imgp9541 Louise and Fred mess about in the back garden imgp9549 Louise reads Fred a story imgp9550 Conway's bar in Blackrock imgp9554 Noddy and Isobel imgp9557 Bar life in Conway's imgp9559 Noddy steps outside for a smoke imgp9561 Noddy and a cloud of smoke imgp9562 Conway's again imgp9566 Blackrock Main Street imgp9568 Cars on Main Street, Blackrock imgp9570 A lit-up pharmacy imgp9572 Eddie Rocket's diner in Blackrock imgp9576 Noddy counts his change imgp9578 Isobel pours a malt imgp9582 Late-night snack in Eddie Rocket's imgp9586 Jen Mac on the beach at Sandymount imgp9593 Walking on the beach at Sandymount imgp9594 Fred, Isobel and Jen stride along the Sandymount beach