A cool creamy pint of Guinness. You can’t beat it. I suppose that makes me a stereotype Irish male. A cool creamy pint while watching your horse win. Better still. That makes me a stereotype Kildare man. A love of national hunt and a disdain for the flat means I’m a north Kildare stereotype. But [...]
There is something special about a great story read by a great voice. Such is the case with Bock’s, The Sailor, read by the late Jock Hunter. Listening to it, the adult I am supposed to be kept trying to work out the deeper meaning, the hidden message, but the child in me won out [...]
Shock horror, cried this week’s papers. 101,000 drivers on Irish roads are on their 3rd, or subsequent, provisional license. Shock horror my arse! The dogs on the street knew that. Let me rephrase – the dogs on the footpath knew that – they are too smart to walk out on the street. For non-Irish readers [...]
The week just gone was hectic as you may have deduced from there being no new posts by me. But, touch timber, things will go more smoothly from now. All piping and wiring have been reconnected. Well nearly – when marking out the foundations we found that an electricity pole is sitting right smack on [...]
Emptying the office is not going well. It has been raining household pets since 3am and the temporary storage container is 40m away. I hear you – it always rains in Ireland. Well, no, it doesn’t. That’s a myth. It only rains when you have washing on the clothes line, you decide to have a [...]
In case you thought my mention of an outbreak of Arsenia constructoris at my place was just a sly preamble to the joke, it wasn’t. I do have builders here and will have for about six months. The house is being extended. Effectively doubled in size. As anyone who ever had a house built from [...]
Click to biggilize
Recent Comments