Mar

The next time…

someone parks across 2 spaces out the back of my house, I’m printing this off with the word “warning” across the top and sticking it to their windscreen… Do you think that laminating it would be a step too far??

Updated: Now in PDF file format with message “Please stop being an idiot about your parking - ONE space is all you need…” for easy printing. park_nice_sign

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24

Mar

Eh, no lads….

ellybabes in Opinion

That isn’t what a helicopter looks like, those are some men dressed in green…

From here.

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23

Mar

Punishment lines…

ellybabes in Opinion

The next time my wonderful, sexy, witty husband lends me his fast, sporty, gorgeous car, I WILL NOT leave one of the internal lights on, thereby draining the battery.

I think I have it drilled into my skull now…. Sorry sweetie!

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28

Feb

Irish Blogger “Cliques”

ellybabes in Opinion

This subject, along with people thinking that the Irish Blog Awards are “fixed” has been done to death over the past week, and I’ve had my say on several blogs (on the ones I was able to comment on!). But I was writing a comment over on The Dossing Times this morning and wanted to re-post it here. A few people seem to think that you need to be a sponsor or a friend of Damien to win, they forget that judges are involved and they vote and make the final decisions.

I didn’t really agree with all the winners this year myself, but since I wasn’t able to participate in judging (I did the previous year), I’ve held my tongue, as I didn’t have a right to comment on it.

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Photo owned by simplified complication (cc)

All this talk of cliques within the Irish blogosphere is driving me nuts though, so I tried to explain my feelings about it with the following comment:

I don’t really mean to target a minor point, but many of the bloggers out there could easily name (and do follow) more than 20 irish blogs. They tend to be the people that are accused of being in the clique (”friends of Mulley“) because they go to many of the events and network and get to know people and then continue communicating off the blogs (whether on or off-line). This networking and communications has helped many people and businesses grow because they can turn to others for advice when needed.

As the UK lottery slogan used to run “You’ve got to be in to win”. If you put in time at real-world networking events you become known and communicate in a more friendly manner on-line because you actually know the people. I’ve barely blogged myself last year due to an injury severely limiting the time I could spend on a computer, but I continued going to events. This meant at the awards ceremony I’d guess that at least half the people knew me (or knew of me), even though I may only have posted about 50 times during the entire year.

It’s not just about the blogs, it’s about the people behind the blogs.