HOORAY 4 WOMEN!

They used to give us a day –it was called International Women’s Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: INFINITE

Definitions on INFINITE: “Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.” Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is over there in the distance. It was there where it was discovered that the Chernobyl accident had happened in 1986, for the Swedes thought that they had a ‘leak’ or whatever at first. I took [...]

DUSTIN The Turkey …

Ireland has won the Eurovision Song Contest so many times that it got too much for the tiny nation to cough up the dosh to make a posh do aka to arrange the competition year in, year out, so that the representatives selected on the same from the Emerald Isle have not done well at [...]

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 [...]

LITERACY or Love of Reading

“What I can think about, I can talk about. What I can say, I can write. What I can write, I can read. I can read what I can write and what other people can write for me to read.” Professor Roach Van Allen The picture, – do click at it to make it clearer, [...]

RAZOR SHARP: FISH

I read in a newspaper here in Finland the other week and found a good few very interesting articles, one of them being this: School children in Sweden were asked to name the most common fish they knew. Guess what the answer was for the most of the children?! FISH FINGERS … !! Yes, that [...]

CHILD MATTERS or Slavery in Modern Times

“Twice a year in Carrickmacross and surrounding towns a fair was held where men and girls rented their labour to well-to-do farmers for six months. It was Ireland’s version of the slave market.” (Patrick Kavanagh ‘The Hired Boy’) As you know by my blogs, that I do have varied interests in life and the living [...]

TEARS in FINLAND Today…

Today the nation is in a state of shock, for there was a shooting in a school near Helsinki that has so far claimed nine lives. Tomorrow is a day of national mourning. Riihele – stunned & sad. © Photo: By Riihele. All rights reserved.

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 [...]

The GOOD LIFE: GALLSTONES

“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience” Kin Hubbard There was a BBC comedy called ‘The Good Life’ – that was about two couples who were direct opposites to the other, and that is what made the comedy, comedy, and so very funny, but what I am telling now is not comedy per se, [...]