Brainwashing Children at Christmas
It turns out my 9 year old niece has a nintendo ds, a PSP and a computer (and possibly another console but I got a bit confused!) and she’s just left here after a short visit. I subjected her to a not-so-subtle interrogation so that I could figure out what to buy her for Christmas. [...]
Pining for a good joke
Crap joke alert. We bought a new car and the wife crashed it. I said, ‘what happened?‘ She said, ‘There was a pine tree, I went left and it swung to the left, I went to the right and it swung to the right.’ I said, ‘Ah yes, that would be the air-freshner.’ A Rob [...]
Gritted teeth
Everything I’ve written tonight has had the phrase ‘gritted teeth’ somewhere in the text because I’ve just spent two hours in a traffic jam Dublin to travel 6 miles. So without further ado, I’d like to tell you that grumpy old man (no relation) has launched his new blog, Border Cobblers. It’s well worth a [...]
Maggie Thatcher is dead?
[edit: It's not] Don’t know if it’s true but, an hour ago at 8pm, Chase me, ladies, I’m in the cavalry reported that Margaret Thatcher has passed away. I can’t see anything on BBC or, ahem, breakingnews.ie. No point in checking RTE as they’ve probably all gone home for the evening.
It’s a dog’s life
mama isadub has joined the internet age and installed broadband in her house. Well, actually, I installed it since supertech, my brother, tried to get it running but failed since there was no wrenches or hammers involved. Now she can download email from her sister a nanosecond quicker. She’s had it for about a week [...]
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