Old Sneezes

Archive for January, 2010

Dracula, Romania and Dublin. Oh, and Coill Dubh.

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Tony popped up on the stool next me. How’s she cutting, Sneezy? Haven’t seen ya in ages. Ah grand, Toe. How’s things going with the band? Any pick up? If you’ll excuse the pun. The what? Doesn’t matter. Are yez busy at all these days. No. Fek all happening. Played last night. Wedding. Good gig. [...]

Kildare County Councillor’s Junkets 2009

Friday, January 15th, 2010

UPDATES: 09:05 15 Jan – News coming in that the figures quoted by Donal and the media are lower by €15k than the actual cost of junkets. 10:00 KFM radio crediting the Leinster Leader as the original source, not Donal Corcoran. 10:35 Update from Donal in comments here. 12:55 Full tabulated figures on Donal’s blog [...]

Kildare Snowscape

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

This was taken from my back window on New Year’s morning. (Click image to enlarge. Hi-res full-size version available to download from Twitpic)

Driving in Snow through Kildare on New Year’s Eve 2009

Friday, January 1st, 2010

On New Year’s Eve 2009 I made the 25 minute trip to a friends’ house to wipe their kids’ noses, change nappies, read bedtime stories and other fun New Year’s activities, while they went out to do something involving alcohol, singing and hugging strangers. It was freezing as I left home. The roads had not [...]

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