Ireland day 1493. Thursday 30 October 2025- Tooth

Today’s summary	After breakfast, went to the dentist for a 10:30 appointment to have a tooth repaired. Then went on a walk up Seamount Hill with Val in the afternoon. Very windy and wet. Had meatballs for dinner and watched some TV in the evening.
Today’s weather	Stormy with squally showers all day. Gale force south easterly wind. Appx 13c

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Stormy Seamount

Commentary

It feels like Autumn has arrived all of a sudden today. It was overcast and breezy when we woke up, but the weather just got worse and worse through the day. Right now, in the early evening, it’s dark, pouring down, and blowing a whole gale outside. But the poor conditions didn’t keep us housebound!

First off, as soon as we’d had our porridge breakfast, I had to go to the dentist for a 10:30 appointment. I had pulled a crown off a few weeks ago while I was flossing and needed to have it put back. Fortunately the dentist was able to glue it on again for “just” €210. The only bright side to this mishap is that if the crown I pulled off had gone down the plug hole (or worse – if I had swallowed it), it would have cost €850 for a new one.

Once the dental repairs were complete, I returned to the flat via SuperValu by when it was almost lunchtime. We finished off the curry from a few nights ago, along with some Marineiras biscuits and tapenade.

After a restorative cup of coffee, we decided to toss caution to one side and brave the elements lashing Malahide. We only had the time (or the desire) for a short walk before it got dark, so we just walked through the eastern side of the Demesne then up Seamount, over the hill through Seapark, and back along the coast. Not very far but we still came back soaked by the rain.

The rest of the day was spent processing laundry and on other various domestic tasks. For dinner we enjoyed some more of yesterday’s meatballs and colcannon, and finished off the evening with some reading and catching up on our Netflix.

And I have to say, there’s something reassuringly cosy about being warm and dry inside while the weather unleashes its fury on the outside world. I wouldn’t want it to become the norm, but it is quite nice, every once in a while.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


The welcoming atmosphere of the dentists’ waiting room	Cricket pitch looking a bit weatherbeaten today – as it so often, unfortunately

A murky outlook from the top of Seamount Hill	Malahide’s safe haven from the Autumn



Mr Tufty busy nibbling his nuts in the sycamore tree outside our bedroom window. Seemingly oblivious to the weather and unperturbed by the swaying of the wind-rocked branch he was sitting on