It’s all me, me, me.

Writing a blog, I get sent lots of press releases from PR companies asking me to feature their stuff on my site. I never do, because they don’t pay me any money. This one time however, something caught my eye, a new online show called the Review Show were looking for new presenters so I thought I’d send them in something, all for the good cause that is Limerick. I sent them a link to a piece I’d done for Ilovelimerick, and they said I was good for the job and would be down to Limerick in a few weeks do do some filming with me.

That was all well and good until the filming was scheduled to be on the day after our Haiti extravaganza and I would have to be up at the crack of dawn. No bother, I says to myself, I’ll go to bed early.

My arse.

The Haiti gig was so good and all the boxes were ticked. I was actually at home in bed at 10.30, jober as a sudge, reading the papers and planning on eight hours of beauty sleep. I knew though, that there was a huge party on just down the street with my name on it.   Sure, if I was at home reading the papers wouldn’t my time be better spent dancing at a really good gig  I jumped out of bed and shoved on my clothes and the fastest bit of eye make up ever, hopped in the car and was back in the door of the bustling crowd.

The fab Funk Junkies were playing my favourite song Valerie so I forced the crowd to endure the sight of me dancing to my song on stage alone. I was then very happy, all my ego boxes ticked I went home to bed.

Next morning the few hours sleep I missed showed a bit but luckily a lack of alcohol can make you all the more human looking. The lovely girl who was doing my make up t 8.30am didn’t get home from a party till 7.30am and, being 25 you’d never know it.  She still did a great job.

I met the crew at the Hunt Museum and we began filming the segments. I have zero professional experience in this field so I was a tad nervous, which I think shows. I repeat myself, it’s true. I have to say it’s not as easy as it looks to say stuff seamlessly with lots of people staring at you, no pressure like. Anyway the way I see it is , we all want to get home so I take the Krusty the Clown approach to these things.

When it came to choosing what places to feature it wasn’t an easy one, there are so many and hopefully the Truvo team will come back to do a pub crawl. The Hunt Museum was featured as a good place to visit for the cultural and historical stuff, plus they have the best view from coffee shop anywhere in town.

Sequoia Lane is a fab shop full of individuality and fun things that won’t break the bank. We all know the Sage cafe, good grub, yummy bread and a nice place to go with yer Ma.

The Truvo team were very nice, easy to work with and all that and they reckon they would like to come back to do more stuff, my stylie which would be pretty much the same places but with a few pubs thrown in and some of the live music that Limerick is so known for. The weather was freezing as you can see from the outside stuff and only two messers walked by the camera shouting “Oi, you ye doing this for yooooo tube?”.

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Val’s Kitchen