I hate pebble dash!

I promise this blog won't be continuously negative, but there is one more thing that I must get off my chest.

I hate pebble dash*. Really, really, really hate it.

Unfortunately the 1960's were not kind to Irish architecture. While the rest of the world was building concrete brutalist structures such as the Barbican in London or my former high school back in Canada, the Irish were pebble dashing (if that's a verb) everything in sight. The suburbs are full of the stuff. It collects dirt, and in a wet country like this, mould and moss.

Wow, I rarely express such strong hate for anything, but this week's 'thing I hate' is pebble dash.


* pebble dash is type of house exterior wall finish where the surface coating is of small stones, chips of stones or gravel that are thrown at a coat of wet plaster while it is still 'soft'.