"Oh my God, we've just got postcodes in Ireland this week and everyone's going mental," said Louise out of absolutely nowhere.
I was stunned into silence for a while by that uniquely arresting sentence. I had no idea that Ireland had survived thus far without postcodes. Apparently, out in the sticks, people just know where places are and take in parcels for each other and are generally, well, nice. I bet the postmen still whistle too, confident in the knowledge that there aren't two roads with the same name in the same town and county.
"And what about the Internet?" I asked, aiming for funny and missing by a country mile, "Has that made it across the Irish Sea?"
"Don't get me started," she said, "We can't get the Internet back home because the leaves get in the way."
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