There is trouble brewing, my friends. Big trouble. This could get dirty. Brother against brother. Well, mother against mother or father against father more like. The board of management of a primary school in the county has proposed bringing the opening time forward by half an hour from 9:20 to 8:50. 8:50 to 9:10 to [...]
They weren’t living together long when Pat’s wife-to-be began dropping the phrase, pitter-patter of little feet, into conversation. So off to Joe-the-dog he and I went and bought a 14-week-old puppy. A beautiful Golden Retriever bitch. A name. She would need a name. We took to the high stool, leaving the puppy to explore the [...]
In the late 80s and early 90s, Pat (he of farting through pure silk fame), like many thousands of young Irish men and women, left Ireland to find work in Britain. Things were tough but what kept them going was the certainty of a wage at the end of the week. And the TV was [...]
I’ve written before about betting on horse racing before and even ran a sweep for the Grand National a couple of times. In the post linked I warned of keeping a tight rein of both horse and wallet, so I’m not getting back the whole right-wrong discussion here (so don’t go jumping in with mug’s [...]
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