Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (78) • United States 10h

I have given my opinion before about the number of divas in the NBA and thugs in the NFL. I don't understand how an athlete makes such an absurd amount of money. Where are our priorities as a country? We resent paying for...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Actors, sports people pop stars etc such be on minimum wage. Garbage disposal people however, are worth their weight in gold.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (78) • United States 9h

I don't hate it. But I'm seldom in the mood for it. It reminds me of elevator music or doctors' office music. It's really not my particular cup of tea. Do you enjoy listening to classical music? Any favorite composers or...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Italian opera is my thing.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 9h

Okay, so I am going back over 50 years now, but when I was at school we used to have free milk every day. It was in little glass bottles and a silver foil lid, that we had to poke the straw through. I loved it. It was ice cold...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I remember it well and with fondness. When I eventually became minister of a Church when I was about 32, on the first Sunday I stood up in the pulpit and right in front of me was my P1 teacher and I could see her supervising the milk.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 21h

Oh joy. I found a restaurant today where everything was to my taste and exceeded my expectations. Even using the bathroom was a treat and I’m not even a woman. The place is in the city of Chester and even though it is pricey I’d...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Time I got over myself!

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 16 Mar

When I hear the nonsense bandied about concerning Ireland at this time of year I despair. I also wonder about the veracity of the information that reaches me regarding other countries: surely it’s not just Ireland that suffers...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev @looeyville Happy to oblige ma’am.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 21h

Oh joy. I found a restaurant today where everything was to my taste and exceeded my expectations. Even using the bathroom was a treat and I’m not even a woman. The place is in the city of Chester and even though it is pricey I’d...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

So, the new neighbours across the road arrived just before 10pm…..there were three cars …one parked on the drive, the other two cars in the street. They were here til 11pm and when they left there was a lot of banging of car...

neighbours

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne mine are generally quiet but can’t manage closing car doors very well.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 16 Mar

When I hear the nonsense bandied about concerning Ireland at this time of year I despair. I also wonder about the veracity of the information that reaches me regarding other countries: surely it’s not just Ireland that suffers...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (126676) • United States 16 Mar

Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day. I am 0% Irish so I had never had the traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner until I ate it at a former boyfriend's house. I loved it! One year I decided I was going to make it at the house and my...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Corned beef and cabbage? Not sure what’s so Irish about that. Probably put about by the corned beef people to drum up trade.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 15 Mar

We visited the farm shop yesturday, and it got me thinking about veggies…. My favourite is sprouts …..it’s not a popular choice I know, but it’s my number one. I like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, beetroot, swede and most others...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Cauliflower for me, roasted with bay leaves to mitigate the whiff then served up in a blue cheese white sauce.

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (126676) • United States 15 Mar

Typical Trump. He overstated what the US had accomplished in Iran and said he didn't need places like the UK to offer to help after we had already won the war. Then Iran shut down the Straight of Hormuz which is where 20% of the...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Oh I thought he’d already won the war. I must try to keep up.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (78) • United States 15 Mar

Even though I've heard of this word before, I didn't actually know what it meant. But it came on in an online Word Game I was playing, so I searched it on Google and now it makes perfect sense. It's a made-up word that becomes a...

portmanteau

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I only lnow it in its French form - a coatrack.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (78) • United States 15 Mar

It seems like I used to know this word, but I was reading an article in my online newsfeed today that used it and I had to look it up to remember what it meant. ESCHEW: to deliberately avoid using; abstain from: The context of...

eschew

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I use it often. I do a lot of eschewing.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 14 Mar

I wanted a simple, quick and easy tea for tonight. So I chose bangers and mash ....we had peas and gravy too. We don't eat a lot of sausages and this pack was on special offer and there will be enough sausages for two meals, so...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Not yet. I have also a Scottish daughter, an Irish daughter, two Irish sons (though one is British) a Scottish brother and a French one too.

14 Mar

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 14 Mar

I had coffee this morning. It was good, doc good that I had another. This is odd because good coffee seems to be just out of reach in cafes, but this one was perfect, so good that I wanted to take the barista home with me. It...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev It’s a long way to for coffee but why not?

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 14 Mar

I wanted a simple, quick and easy tea for tonight. So I chose bangers and mash ....we had peas and gravy too. We don't eat a lot of sausages and this pack was on special offer and there will be enough sausages for two meals, so...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Our English daughter made us a rathe pleasing Indian tonight and she’ll be doing a roast dinner for us tomorrow.

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (126676) • United States 14 Mar

I rarely watch new movies. The Oscars go on and on when I have to get up early for work the next day. Typically I watch the red carpet fashion and maybe the first couple of awards before going to bed. I don’t have to get up...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa That would be a no. I don’t even know why it’s made the news. Those people have big enough egos without me stroking them as well. Some people think one actor did better than another - so what? We really shouldn’t be encouraging them.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 14 Mar

I had coffee this morning. It was good, doc good that I had another. This is odd because good coffee seems to be just out of reach in cafes, but this one was perfect, so good that I wanted to take the barista home with me. It...

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Fiacre Banks @daddyevil Alas I can’t afford him.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 14 Mar

Of course no-one tells the truth in war unless it’s wrung out of them. Every side boasts and swaggers about its gains and downplays any reversals and that’s how it always is. So none of us really knows what all’s going on...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14381) • Ireland 13 Mar

I was in Buxton today, a town just an hour’s train ride from Manchester. And it was freezing cold. We like Buxton, but are dismayed that it’s quaint little tea shops where home made cakes and pastries are served have been all but...

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Fiacre Banks @lindaohio My weekend has just picked up!!!

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