Come with me to: CARDO

The top picture to this entry is an ancient map of Jerusalem, Madaba Map found in 1897 in Jordan. A few weeks ago I did the Come with me to: Yemin Moshe and today tour is to Cardo in the Old City of Jerusalem. Hold on to your water bottles and let’s do some more [...]

Irish Humour: BALANCED!

“Despite my privileged upbringing, I’m quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.” Russel Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind” In Ireland the joke is made about “The well balanced Irishman : a chip on both shoulders.” ”The saying originated during the nineteenth century in the United States, where people wanting a physical fight would [...]

CARTOON: Undelivered e-mails

Undelivered e-mail by Dave Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.   YUP – the Cyber Monster ate my fabulous entry on my other site and I was too peeved to re-do the same*, so here is what came to my mind after it [...]

Clan Gathers & Gatherings

”The lack of emotional security of our American* young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world [...]

Sound as a Bell & Other Irishisms

  Photo: Still Life in Powerscourt Demesne, Ireland by Riihele. “The most obvious trait, or should I say, the most prominent characteristic of an Irishman/ -woman is their absolutely delicious wit. It shines through everything and anything that is done in the country.” – I wrote that in an earlier entry called, The Emerald Isle [...]

Marriage Business

“Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find me a find, catch me a catch Matchmaker, Matchmaker Look through your book, And make me a perfect match…” Fiddler on the Roof words by: Lyrics and Songs.com Tis the trick, indeed. I think that the most frustrating and difficult part of relationships is that with each one [...]

My HOME Is Where My HEART Is

Sometimes it does feel like this picture* that we are looking from the outside in… ‘My Home is where My Heart is.’ Tis for me, for after living in many countries and cultures, it really has been the only way to survive to an extent. Lapland is the country and place where I always say [...]

STILL LIFE: GOLDEN ROSES

This is another entry in my series of STILL LIFE Photos. I took the shot in the King David Hotel ladies room in Jerusalem last May, and it came out quite all right, methinks! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND YE ALL. Rii xx STILL LIFE: Rose in a Vase STILL LIFE: Room with a View © [...]

Twelfth of July

I put this bridge as a symbol to bridge the two communities in Ireland.* Today is the day, The Twelfth of July celebrations Northern Ireland, when the memories from long, long times past are stirred up; mostly in hatred and anger. Yes, it is the day to remember the Battle of the Boyne which took [...]

Game Over: Football

I put the ‘Nokia Connecting People’-thing – this a photograph that my elder sister took while in Vienna last autumn which I just took a chunk of -  in here because the populace of the earth: the old, the young, the haves, the have-nots, friendly nations, foe nations; all have been united under the umbrella, [...]