I know. I know, I know, I know.
We didn’t get to Donegal yet. I know. We will get to Donegal, but it will be by a circuitous route like an old-fashioned mystery tour. A magical mystery tour through all the lunatic villages of Ireland, like Knock, only nuttier, arriving eventually in Buncrana, where everybody [...]
I bought a chimenea today, a cast-iron one because it’s less likely to crack than the pottery one I already have, and it’s also a good bit bigger. I mean, it isn’t enormous, but it’s big enough to push in a medium-sized Christian Brother sawn in four. The pottery chimenea served me well [...]
Here’s one that emerged from a series of highly-dangerous high-speed text messages between me and Wrinkly Joe. This is strictly for connoisseurs of old Irish TV trivia.
Here’s a worried Mr A – big legal bills he’ll have to pay.
Here’s a smiling Mr B – he won’t have to pay a single fee.
Says B to [...]
OK. It’s tomorow.
Anyway, that was Knock. I didn’t go to the Basilica because there wasn’t time, and also because I was afraid they’d kill me if I tried to enter their church while wearing my Laugh at that, ye Dublin 4 Fuckers T-shirt, which I had made after Munster won the Heineken Cup at the [...]
Well, what a terrific weekend. I’m sorry for not boring you over the past few days but it couldn’t be helped. I’m sorry about that but I’ll try to get right back to it toute de suite, and with any luck I’ll be as crushingly boring as ever.
I went to Donegal for the weekend. I [...]
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Check out the simultaneous celebrations on the streets of Limerick in this one.
If I broke into your house and stole your pig, I’d be a ham-burglar.
I had lunch with two guys today.
One said: I never really understood what people meant by the expression Nature abhors a vacuum.
And the other said: Why does Nature hate hoovers?
I went out with Jimbo this evening for a walk, mainly to get a bit of exercise, but also to walk the dogs. It was nice. It was a lovely evening, and we took a stroll down by the river, across the new bridge to the Clare side at Gillogue and back again by the [...]
