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I am delightedly awful with anything tech-related, if I need to update my phone I call my sister Amber, if I need to sort out my online banking I call my stepdad Neil. I realise that at the grand age of 38, I should be better equipped for this world of AI and technology but I still find myself at the back of the class. My house however is a bit of a tech dream, I didn’t notice how much I loved a home gadget until I came to write this column which started out as a love letter to my Qooker tap. I have fallen deeply in love with that tap, it gives me everything I need – freezing cold filter water, fizzy water for my vodka soda limes and boiling hot water for my endless cups of tea. I’ve had one in London for a few years because our tap water is undrinkable here and it’s the same in my beautiful hometown of Howth – I feel guilty saying anything even slightly negative about Howth but the water isn’t great!
I was not a coffee drinker until I had my third child Otto and realised I was never going to sleep again so I jumped on the coffee train. By the time all of my children started sleeping well, I had already become addicted. I was drinking a lot of Nespresso until I went to my cousin Sheena’s house and she made me a coffee from her Sage coffee machine, a total game changer. It’s an expensive machine but I got mine on sale in Arnotts and to be honest there is no comparison in the taste.