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What if the secret to a good life was simply caring a great deal less? Housekeeping for Hallions is an affectionate and wickedly funny guide to the art of living simply, cutting corners with conviction, and finding profound wisdom in cheerful neglect. A hallion, for the uninitiated, is an Irish term for that most admirable of characters - slightly chaotic, entirely charming, and utterly indifferent to what the neighbours think. Writing from Clogher in Co Tyrone, Des Donnelly has distilled the hallion philosophy into an essential handbook: part survival guide, part quiet rebellion against the relentless pursuit of domestic perfection - a pursuit that, as any hallion will tell you, is largely unnecessary and suspiciously exhausting. Inside this book: * Fridge archaeology, and the ethics of eating from the saucepan * Wellington etiquette, and the case for one good pair * The correct attitude to ironing (don't) * Why mirrors should always be small or cracked * The freezer as a form of long-term postponement For anyone who has ever boiled an egg in a dirty saucepan or regarded an unmade bed as a sign of good character rather than poor housekeeping, this book will feel like coming home.

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Des Donnelly writes from Clogher, Co Tyrone in the North of Ireland. Born in 1955 Donnelly's writing life has moved between the factual, the technical, and the imaginative. Each mode sharpened his attention to structure and pattern, and to the way language stores meaning, distorts it, and occasionally breaks under its own weight. He's happy as Larry to live amongst the modest disorder he advocates for.

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