- What began as a great dust storm on the plains of Kildare was followed over the next five weeks by enough rain and muck to embarrass Oxegen. But the builders persevered, as only men who are paid ten times over the odds can persevere, and on Wednesday they poured the floors in the new extension. I was looking out the window at a scurry of Doozers (remember them?) flitting about in their yellow hi-viz jackets. I was looking at the cement mixers disgorging their contents like Temple Bar teens. I was looking at the lads steering their power floats across the floor like supermarket cleaners. I was looking out the window when the dog plodded merrily right across the smoothed concrete. And right back again. I suppose you could say he’s in the peoplehouse with the builders.
- Barbara Streisand performs in the grounds of Castletown House, Celbridge this evening. I think she’s a singer. I seen her on South Park a few times. There will be traffic restrictions, exorbitant ticket prices (€500 plus - much more on eBay), fine wines, canapés, rain, mud and designer wellies. It is being billed locally as Oxegen for Auld Wans. Imagine if pisses from the high heavens and no-one turns up: But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns…
- I wonder what treasures the post-concert cleaners will find at Castletown? The haul from Oxegen was impressive. Two foreign students staying with a friend spent three days as mopup crew in Punchestown. Total gigsam (like flotsam or jetsam but from gigs): An iPod, 5 mobile phones, 73 cans of beer, 2 pairs of Wranglers, 1 pair of Reebok trainers, 10 umbrellas and €421 in cash. Not bad considering they only took away what didn’t need cleaning. Our Celtic Cubs are spoiled little buggers it seems.
- We witnessed some betsam (like gigsam but from a betting shop) in the village too. During a revamp of the premises all the TVs, about 20 in total, were thrown out. A Moldavian working for a local horse trainer asked for them and the builders were only too delighted to have such bulky items out of their skip. He used the boxes the new TVs had come in to pack them, contacted a mate with a van and within an hour they were on their way to Moldova.
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