Archive for July 2007

Oh Dear Jesus!

Jul 30th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Food & Drink, Music

Well you know how it is with these festivals.  Excess.  More excess and then another bit of excess.
Excessive amounts of excess.
When I ‘m a bit better, I’ll tell you all about the festival, and the lunatics we met and the Blind Boys of Alabama, and how we almost accidentally killed a major country star with [...]



Petty theft

Jul 27th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Crime

I’m a bit lazy and a bit careless. I know it. Sometimes I’ll put off doing things even when I know I’m being stupid and when I know it will cause trouble for me later.
Ha! I say. I’ll do it in a minute.
One of the things I’m very careless about is [...]



Festival-Time Again

Jul 26th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music

Yes. It’s that time of year when Wrinkly Joe and myself take our lives in our hands and venture into pink-buckskin territory once more. That’s right: the Midlands Music Festival is upon us again and tomorrow we enter the fray.
Now, you might recall our adventures from last year, when we worshipped at the [...]



Joe O’Reilly

Jul 26th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Crime

Joe O’Reilly was convicted of murdering his wife, Rachel, and was sent to jail for life.
Now, I think he did it, and every person I talk to thinks he did it. What’s more, the jury thought he did it, and you have to agree, it would be hard to find stronger authority than that, [...]



What it says in the papers

Jul 25th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: World

I didn’t get a chance to read the papers closely today, due (as you know) to my intensive engagement with shovelling tons of rubble and building stone walls.
Hmmm.
One piece of advice for you: don’t ever do this. Ever. Got that? Never.
Anyway, as I said, I only had a chance to scan the [...]



The Great Leon Redbone

Jul 24th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music


New blog, but not new blogger

Jul 23rd, 2007 | By Bock | Category: internet

Krystian Kozerawski writes several blogs, and here’s his latest offering: the Krystian Kozerawski Photo Blog
Check out his other blogs too – especially Mackozer, the blog of a Polish person living in Ireland. This can make very interesting reading at times.



The Devil Take Your Washing Machine!

Jul 23rd, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Humour

Did you ever know anyone who sold their soul to the Devil?
Hmm?
Strange idea, isn’t it – selling your soul to the Devil?
Strange.
I wonder if he’d accept other things? Such as my washing machine, for instance, which without warning started to emit terrible beeps telling me it refused to do anything, the bastard.
Wash these fucking [...]



Fear Not! Bock is Safe.

Jul 22nd, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Home, Humour

My apologies for being absent, but the mini-digger and mini dump-truck finally appeared, as did the Rockhopper from the Aran Islands. The last few days have therefore been devoted entirely to manual labour followed by excessive drinking with the Rockhopper, so you can understand there isn’t much time for the usual blogging.
I hope to [...]



Another Blogger Moved

Jul 20th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: internet

MacDara in the Lebanon, sensible fellow that he is, has moved to WordPress, at http://macdara.wordpress.com/
Here’s his new home: MacDara
The usual message: if you already have him on your blogroll, update your link. If you didn’t already list him, give him a visit and see what you think.