Mo Rogha (Blog of the Week)

My favourite post of the week.

(Updated Sunday mornings at a quarter past first coffee GMT)

You may sort the table by clicking on the When, Who, What or Why headers. But only if you would really like to, mind.

When?	Who?	What?	Why?
2008/05/11	Lost White Kenyan Chick	What it's really like in "The Ladies" loo ...	This explains a lot.
2008/05/04	Around my Kitchen Table	Extreme Sports and Adrenaline Rush Deprivation	Mrs. Kitchen is right, as usual - many children today aren't allowed be children.
2008/04/27	Paddy in Buenos Aires	Q&A on Argentina	More a page than a post, but I love the idea of putting a blog to practical use like this.
2008/04/20	Grannymar	Ladies of the Town	An eye-opener for residents of Belfast - literally. Perhaps an eye-opener for the rest of us too - sadly.
2008/04/13	Rosie - The Spanish Exposition	Aon Focal, Daw Focal	Rosie has a testing time with the girls of, what seems to be, an Irish language Butterfly Lounge.
2008/04/06	Sam, Problemchildbride	Celebrities Take To Ojai Streets In Protest	Yeah, I know, I know - Two weeks in a row. Well that's just the way it is. Go read it and you'll know why.
2008/03/30	Sam, Problemchildbride	The cities of Ojai and Stornoway are twinned	For lines like: Mayor Janice De KirkFitzMacCohenburgerski (America’s Miss Teen Melting Pot 1964) and having her interview taken and The Stornoway delegation are in town ’til after happy-hour on Thursday and many, many more. Just read it.
2008/03/23	Bock the Robber	Battlestar Catholactica	The Trifelge Gutinard would appove of Bock's tale about the Messiahlon on Planet P3×5T-Wm66bB.
2008/03/16	Conortje	I want to be Bob Dylan	80s Kerry performer, Bobtje Seppelín Ó hÁitnabuachaillí, has rereleased his greatest hit. T-shirts to follow.
2008/03/09	Eolaí gan Fhéile	A Bad Pint: Here be Dragons	On the art of Arthur.
2008/03/02	Reluctant Memsahib	The Need for Reinvention	It all sounds very Wild West of America - an Outpost, a Saloon, the town's only woman, standing by her man etc-ish. Of course, it's not - it's all very Wild East of Africa.
2008/02/24	MacDara	The price of guns on the rise	The Lord of the Leb ventures into discourse on economics.
2008/02/17	Annie Rhiannon	How to sneak into America	Annie bypasses custom, to get through customs in an uncustomary fashion.
2008/02/10	Sam, Problemchildbride	When Scottish Eyes Are Reading About Dublin	The comments made are just as interesting as the post itself. The passion of pro and con camps too often drags discussion into the gutter. No so here - this is an example of eloquent and courteous debate the ancient Greeks would have been proud of.
2008/02/03	Reluctant Memsahib	Picture This	Mem' looks at the Kenyan situation from an angle that will make you either scream or cry.
2008/01/27	Fatmammycat	Glorifying death	Suicide is nor golorious - it's just death. FMC says it like it is.
2008/01/20	Grannymar	Morning Sex	This is a scream. Albeit a quick one.
2008/01/13	Eolaí gan Fhéile	So I painted it	Eolaí responds to a question, to which there is only one answer. And millions. And none.
2008/01/06	Bock the Robber	Britney Spears	Bock asks the first sensible question of 2008.
2007/12/30	The Spanish Exposition	The Heimlich Manoeuvre	Heimlich the hamster's demise. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry - so I laughed until I cried.
2007/12/23	Old Knudsen	OBB News	Old Bitter Ball's 24 hour news blog has had me laughing since its October launch. Here's a recent favourite.
2007/12/16	Sugar Britches	Remotely Interesting	Taking up my thread on TV, Sugar tells of her early memories of the box and it brought back many for me too.
2007/12/09	Eolaí gan Fhéile	Goat Burning Season is upon Us	More fun than being in a barrel with a goat.
2007/12/02	Grandad	Miracles do happen	An update on Bernie. Strangely, I'm getting to like this lady.
2007/11/25	Sugar Britches	Drug Test	Appropriately enough, I wet myself laughing at this.
2007/11/18	Sam, Problemchildbride	Fact Number 349 About The Glen Of Insanity	This explains a lot. In fact, it explains everything.
2007/11/04	...	...	Sorry. No time to read blogs this week. If you think YOUR post should be in this spot then mail me.
2007/10/28	Eolaí gan Fhéile	The Seagull has landed	Eolaí's settling in back home. Both an eye-opener and a rib-tickler.
2007/10/21	The Pleasures of Underachievement	Bye for now	Seanachie ~~bows~~ blogs out for the moment.
2007/10/14	Grandad	God to sue America	If you don't wet yourself laughing at this, you need to see a urologist.
2007/10/07	An Cainteoir Dóchais	Tír gan ainm	Michal ponders what his country should be called.
2007/09/30	The Spanish Exposition	Glendalough's Saint Kevin, a Fine Example to Men Everywhere	A little bit of history, religion and legend. And a barrel full of belly laughs. (I resisted commenting with double entendres - see if you can).
2007/09/23	John McDermott	New Song - Say Say	Great music - me likes! In years to come, you'll say you heard it second on Sneezy's blog.
2007/09/16	Reluctant Memsahib	A meeting with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	What an African thinks of the 'Make Poverty History' drive. She is not a fan.
2007/09/09	Fatmammycat	A pot-filled Sunday of motherly confusion	The rotund feline takes an accidental overdose.
2007/09/02	Eolaí gan Fhéile	Readying for Ireland on the streets of Kansas City	Packing tape, a woman's bike, credit cards, and more. Fek MasterCard - this is priceless.
2007/08/26	Ann - For the Long Run	Walking and talking with Toby	A vivid narrative of a stroll with a dog that'll make you smile.
2007/08/19	Reluctant Memsahib	Look what I got!	Best laugh I had all week.
2007/08/12	Kav	Yeah she's done well ...	Kav's account of being Best Man. Comment #1 is the full text of his speech. Priceless.
2007/08/05	Bock the Robber	Festival Reports One and Two	Bock's account of the Midlands Music Festival
2007/07/29	The Swearing Lady	You Spin Me Right Round. Also Right Through.	On SUVs. A taste: (On why SUV's are fine for farmers) Besides, imagine driving a saloon in wellies! It can't be done!
2007/07/22	Lina Žigelytė	How to get a job	A somewhat caustic essay offering advice to anyone thinking of emigrating to Ireland.
2007/07/15	Around my Kitchen Table	The Village Idiots	An hilarious look at what rural folk think of blow-ins from the cities.
2007/07/08	Eolaí gan Fhéile	101 Things About the Irish KC Author	The Mother of all Memes, from the Lord of the Lists
2007/07/01	Bock the Robber	Monica Leech	Bock explains an Irish scandal that didn't happen.
2007/06/24	Sam, Problemchildbride	Challenging New Performance	A wonderfully zany family tale.
2007/06/17	MacKozer	A Day in Belfast	Even if you have no interest in Northern politics, you will be in awe of Mac's photos of some Belfast murals.
2007/06/10	Reluctant Memsahib	The G8 on Africa … what would I know	An African's take on the recent G8 summit
2007/06/03	The Swearing Lady	Fianna Fail and Other Par-tees	A side splitting look at Ireland's political landscape.
2007/05/27	Fatmammycat	An Argument	This kept me laughing for hours.
2007/05/20	Ann - For the Long Run	The Mother of all Melt-Downs	Because it's so heart-felt, I can't even make a comment.
2007/05/13	Irish Flirty Something	Emraces One, Two & Three	Because she kept our interest aroused(?) for three days.
2007/05/06	Reluctant Memsahib	The coolest mum in town	Because it will give you a taste for the best-written new blog around.
2007/04/29	Old Knudsen	Hey Bitches I'm Back	Because no-one's safe from the wrath of old Bitter Balls
2007/04/22	Kav	Top Scary Moments - #1	A father's experiences of childbirth, relayed in a way that is personal, emotional, colourful and yet with Kav's wry humour.
2007/04/15	Grannymar	Little Time Left	Undeniable proof that global warming is for real. See the pic.
2007/04/08	The Swearing Lady	Savings on Good Friday	Because it's a masterfully written rant on energy efficiency with well aimed digs at government inefficiency. Here's a taste: Long-life lightbulbs don’t last pissing time. PISSING TIME! And I’m including cider/postlongcarjourney/racehorse pissing times in that one.
2007/04/10	Sam, Problemchildbride	Lola	Because I love a good yarn.
2007/03/25	Eolaí gan Fhéile	Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #26	Simply for these two lines: -Well, XYZ Transmissions are in the neighborhood, and I just wanted to let you know that we do much more than transmissions -Have you thought of changing your name?