Philip Judge
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Sharpen your knives...it’s time to talk turkey carving
- Homes & Property
- December 21, 2019, 06:00
Many images evoke Christmas: a delighted child hugging a bulging stocking; a carol singer clutching sheet music in the snow; a middle-aged man with a (...)

It used to be perfume, lingerie and fine wine. Now give me a dehydrator?
- Homes & Property
- November 30, 2019, 06:00
Our household Christmas wish list is looking disconcertingly pious. Contrary to the season’s traditional spirit of gluttonous overconsumption, most of(...)

My child’s art has pride of place on our walls – my prized pictures are behind the sofa
- Interiors
- October 26, 2019, 01:00
For years I’ve watched my personal space slowly shrink in inverse proportion to my sons’ growth and I’ve finally been supplanted from my last little n(...)

From rural sowing and reaping to dreams of urban return
- Homes & Property
- September 28, 2019, 06:00
I love living in the country but sometimes I miss urban life. Despite being far from self-sufficient here on our Wicklow acre, it keeps us busy throug(...)

A new mattress was sprung on me but what to do with the old one?
- Homes & Property
- August 3, 2019, 00:00
Like everyone else we spend more time in bed than we do in the car. Since moving to Wicklow three cars have come and gone but we have been still sleep(...)

The garden is not abuzz. I want the bees back
- Gardens
- July 20, 2019, 00:00
I was planning to do some strimming when my wife said we should plant Comfrey. Eager for distraction I looked it up. A bit like a mauve bluebell, it’s(...)

The cherry tree in bloom reminds me of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone
- Homes & Property
- June 15, 2019, 06:00
I was planning to do some strimming when my wife said we should plant comfrey. Eager for distraction I looked it up. A bit like a mauve bluebell it’s (...)

Lesssons from the Californian drought: nature has adjusted, humans not so much
- Homes & Property
- June 1, 2019, 00:00
A week or two ago I walked through San Francisco in a high wind and heavy rain. It was not what I’d expected. Having packed T-shirts, linen and shorts(...)

Hens are short lived, like my henhouse
- Homes & Property
- May 11, 2019, 00:00
I need to construct a new henhouse and this time I ought to properly consider its design. I built our first for my wife’s birthday – not overwhelmingl(...)

I could get used to 21st-century apartment living
- Homes & Property
- April 20, 2019, 00:00
I just spent a month in a Chicago apartment and I might be a changed man. My balcony opened onto a forest of skyscrapers: each one a concrete, glass o(...)