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Well, what a stormer of an announcement today – Bertie Ahern finally got around to announcing that he will be stepping down as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland on 6th May. While I greeted his stepping down news with delight, I quickly stopped when he mentioned the 6th May date – “That’s my birthday you bugger!” [...]
Seeing that Google Maps now allows open collaboration, I’ve started a European Travel Map that allows anyone to add to it. View Larger Map Feel free to add in any useful info you can think of: Hotels to avoid, ones that are good Memorable restaurants The best pubs & clubs Engaging museums or art exhibits I would envisage that in the future, [...]
I’ve been himming and hawing about whether I should write this post or not – the last time I opened my mouth to stand up for girl bloggers (choosing of categories for the las Irish Blog Awards) I was shouted down quite vociferously! But I think I can get away with this one…. K8 recently [...]
Darnit, I’ve been tagged by Grandad, so I now need to do some thinking. Eight things that you didn’t know about me: I’ve played in two ‘men-only’ rugby matches when I lived in France. First time was for the local town team second string, they had 14 players for a match and the opponents [...]
If you’re not familiar with the letters and numbers above, they are US movie classifications. Via the Limerick Blogger this week is a little service from Mingle2 (a dating service I believe) that looks at your blog, website or My Space page and then gives it an appropriate rating based on the words used within. [...]
Oh God, I’ve been meaning and promising to post this for ages, and now that the wedding is out of the way I no longer have an excuse! Our wedding was originally planned for 120 people, but as a lot of them were from overseas we ended up with 85 at the ceremony and meal. [...]
As the bride sneaks in a quick fag… Photo credit: Triona Ryall (Bridesmaid)
Damien had a bit of a saga with his luggage the last time he traveled out of the country, it was lost in transit and took several days to get back to him. In the end it was returned by Aer Lingus, even though he hadn’t traveled with them! Sky Handling Partners were awful to [...]
The wonderful K8 the GR8 over at cackaloo.com sent me this meme over a month ago now, but I’ve been so busy that I’ve let it slip until now… Sorry K8! 1. What period of history would you most like to have lived in and why? It’s a hard choice, maybe the sixties for the sex, [...]
The IFWDC (Irish 4 Wheel Drive Club) lads were out and about on a club fun day recently. While the main aim of these days is all about driving to what look like unreachable places, they also have a good group of photographers who grab some great shots on the day. Of the [...]
Hopefully you’ve all been following the girls over on beaut.ie as they were sending themselves and those closest to them for colonic hydrotherapy and reporting back on this mysterious procedure. I happened to mention to them that I had been thinking about going for a colonic or three and they kindly offered me a [...]
Firstly, and most importantly the photos are up here (even though I didn’t manage to get any of Tom dancing, and missed that as I had to leave early…). There’s even a photo of TwentyMajor in there, but I’m not saying which one! A great night was had by all, even if Grannymar didn’t win. [...]
Damien wrote a really heartfelt post yesterday and I just want to send this to him – a big virtual hug: And here’s a cartoon that might put a little smile on his face, I’ve had this one stored away for ages and never had a reason to use it… Love ya Damien!
I have some French friends of friends coming over to Dublin for a 2 week English placement tomorrow. They’ve asked me to take them out on Saturday night to give them a flavour of Dublin nightlife, which should be easy enough – a few traditional pubs, then onto Temple Bar for the wilder side. Then [...]
When I was talking to Martine at the weekend she was speaking about the heatwave that France is facing at this time… it’s not as bad as the one during 2003, but still pretty severe all the same… I was thinking today about the differences in language and how we describe this period of [...]
Martine called today. And I then spent 4 hours nervously planning what I would say when i called her back. Why so freaked out, I hear you ask? Well, I had to talk to her in French as she doesn’t speak English, and I *used* to be fluent in French… and she’s my French ‘mother’ so [...]
from the story of my holiday, anyway… I was ranting at G today about Mary Harney and he was sick of hearing me go on so he told me to “Blog It”, which now seems to be the house standard response to a rant you don’t want to hear! We were talking about the smoking ban over [...]
Yup, it’s finally time for that summer holiday that my body and brain have been screaming for during the past few months! G and I both have a week off work and boy do we need it. So today is the first day and I started by going for a nice massage to get me [...]
Time passes, stuff happens, I am lazy, but so what! So what has happened in the last couple of months? After the frenchies left, we had a mad dash down to Sligo for my cousin Aoife’s wedding to Damien. Great fun was had by all, I have to say that when the Molonys and the Ellards [...]
Anne and Thibaud were over with us for nearly two weeks at the start of July recently. I have to say that I was worried about having house guests for that long, but they proved to be excellent. They helped to keep the place tidy and did the dishes every morning. Anne [...]
It’s been another week since I last posted, this is not going as well as I thought! Things have just really ramped up in the last week and I don’t think that it’s going to get much better throughout July. Quite a few things on over the next weeks, including the visit of Anne and [...]
Where does the time fly to??? It seems like only yesterday that I went through the registration process for this blog, but here we are already 3 weeks later! Since then, what has happened? Well the biggest thing was my participation in the 2005 Flora Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin. I went at this 10km walk (in [...]
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