Picture Perfect: Celebrate

Love is
composed of
a single soul
inhabiting two bodies.
(Aristotle)

HUMOUR: Pickled Onions

Some while back Noizy had a photo of an Irish pub in Maine in his blog on 360 and the name of the establishment was: The Pickled Onion! My comment was this: HEEEH!! lol I think that the onion is not the only one that is getting pickled in that establishment!! Tis for now, Rii [...]

ROTUNDA Hospital & Becoming Mother

Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. (Gail Sheehy) Giving birth is compared to running a full marathon. Maybe, as I have never heard this before by anybody, but could it not be said that, the baby who is trying to be born also is running her/his [...]

Incidents & Such Like: EEJIT!

This is an Incident that happened many years ago in Ireland. I have divided The Incidents into The Comical, The Dangerous and The Thinking About Them Ones. This one belongs to the first mentioned ones The Comical. The story is like this: We have this Irish/American family as very good friends and we were used [...]

Belfast, Belfast…

Photo of Belfast is off the Wikipedia site. “Belfast from the Irish Béal Feirste meaning “The sandy ford at the river mouth” is the capital of Northern Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster, and the second-largest city on the island of Ireland (after Dublin). In the 2001 [...]

Incidents & Such Like: ANKLES

We have very good friends over in Ireland whom we used to be in and out of their house constantly as they lived quite close to us and vice versa. The Man of the house was piling on the ounces and the pounds with the Good Life until they became stones and then he got [...]

Incidents & Such Like: PUTTY

The fact of the matter is that Donald Duck and I share the same predicament in being persons for whom things happen – whether one is looking for them to happen or not!! Sad things, mad things, glad things, do roll out in a never-ending roller coaster. I have said in another entry that I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]