Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (94) • United States 29 Oct

That’s incredible. The U.S. Government never works that fast. And that included processing and mailing time. I’m simply amazed. They’ve changed the format of the pages. Or passports here are good for 10 years.

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville How hard to live with would you be without a passport to hand? I’d be a nightmare.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15481) • Ireland 27 Oct

All our governments are caught between raising revenue to pay for defence, education, health etc and trying to ease the cost of living for ordinary folk - an impossible tightrope to walk. Now the British government has decided...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse In the gherkin shop.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 28 Oct

So my Mom and I usually go shopping on a Thursday and then I have a Turkey baguette for lunch before coming home. This week, however, she has something happening tomorrow so we changed our day. I met her as usual on the car park...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I spent time making baked salmon with sweet potato wedges and a mustard and parsley sauce. Followed by tiramisu. I’d have saved you some but it was made using amaretto and I don’t think you’re too fond of that.

28 Oct

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

You know how it is ….you are watching tv, and suddenly you get an attack of the munchies…..well, that just happened to me . I decided on toast. I have some best butter in the fridge and I thought I would treat myself. So, I had...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne it seems she may not have left her lap dancing at the convent door!

27 Oct

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (94) • United States 27 Oct

I wrote the other day that my health insurance company had made a payment to some healthcare provider that I have never heard of when the payment was actually supposed to come to me So I called them yesterday. I did discover...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville So they expect you to sort out their error? If they paid money to someone that’s on them, they need to pay you and get the money back off that other person themselves. You shouldn’t be expected to do anything.

27 Oct

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

You know how it is ….you are watching tv, and suddenly you get an attack of the munchies…..well, that just happened to me . I decided on toast. I have some best butter in the fridge and I thought I would treat myself. So, I had...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne I recall one disastrous visit to Rome in 2012. I had flu and we were staying in a dreadful place, the wing of a monastery fitted out as a hotel. Awful place. A month later I read in the paper that the Pope closed it down because of some untoward...

27 Oct

John Roberts @JohnRoberts (108782) • Los Angeles, California 27 Oct

The world is watching the fall of the City of Lights as violent rioters loot, pillage, burn, destroy and deface Paris. Supposedly, rioters particularly want to storm the Louvre with the intention of burning the Mona Lisa as a...

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Fiacre Banks @JohnRoberts I can't see me ever being back in Paris. My current European destination of choice is Athens.

27 Oct

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John Roberts @JohnRoberts (108782) • Los Angeles, California 27 Oct

The world is watching the fall of the City of Lights as violent rioters loot, pillage, burn, destroy and deface Paris. Supposedly, rioters particularly want to storm the Louvre with the intention of burning the Mona Lisa as a...

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Fiacre Banks @JohnRoberts Special time for us - 1st child born there and we just lived life that was normal in Paris without feeling we had to ascend the Eiffel Tower every day.

27 Oct

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John Roberts @JohnRoberts (108782) • Los Angeles, California 27 Oct

The world is watching the fall of the City of Lights as violent rioters loot, pillage, burn, destroy and deface Paris. Supposedly, rioters particularly want to storm the Louvre with the intention of burning the Mona Lisa as a...

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Fiacre Banks @JohnRoberts I've been going to Paris since I was 14 in 1972 and lived there for a year in 85/86 and make frequent visits especially since my brother has lived there since 1979, but he's moved up to the north coast now. I don't like it now because it has...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (128294) • United States 27 Oct

It was just announced this morning. Parents are going to go absolutely nuts. Like we knew that the elections are held in the schools and they don't want the kids there for that for a year. Why would they announce it just 1 week...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Please vote sensibly!

27 Oct

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15481) • Ireland 27 Oct

All our governments are caught between raising revenue to pay for defence, education, health etc and trying to ease the cost of living for ordinary folk - an impossible tightrope to walk. Now the British government has decided...

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Amber @AmbiePam (132233) • United States 26 Oct

You know I love Coca Cola, and have tried to adjust to Coke Zero, which I cannot get used to. Anyway, I paid for the drink package on the cruise because one can of a soda on the cruise was $4.50. I’m going to pay for the...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Our daughter always orders Diet Coke or Coke Zero. They’re definitely not the same as straight, regular coke at all. When we’re in Brittany they usually serve Breizh Cola, their local version which is not bad. It’s a way of establishing Breton...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

You know how it is ….you are watching tv, and suddenly you get an attack of the munchies…..well, that just happened to me . I decided on toast. I have some best butter in the fridge and I thought I would treat myself. So, I had...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I have stopped eating after tea time and have lost 10 kilos by so doing so I’m reluctant to join in. However I’ll be back in Rome four weeks today for a week celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the day we met and I’m sure to undo my good work. ....

27 Oct

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (94) • United States 26 Oct

My health insurance plan offers a once yearly review by a pharmacist to make sure the prescriptions that I'm taking don't interact poorly with each other or have undesired side effects. I learned that one of the medications I'm...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Nothing is ever straightforward.

26 Oct

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

I seem to be in a ‘ quoting mood ‘ these past few days ….i guess it is going to continue … I actually don’t usually mind rainy days ….unless it’s very heavy it doesn’t usually stop me from doing anything …. Mondays, I am not...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne A dodgy jambalaya would definitely get you down on your knees before the big white throne for a session.

26 Oct

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

I seem to be in a ‘ quoting mood ‘ these past few days ….i guess it is going to continue … I actually don’t usually mind rainy days ….unless it’s very heavy it doesn’t usually stop me from doing anything …. Mondays, I am not...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I do hope the mister doesn’t get too wet in Scotland. Sounds rough up there. Bad dining experiences always get me down but I don’t think that’s covered by the Carpenters.

26 Oct

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (390581) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Oct

We attended a talk at the clubhouse today given by a representative of ‘Every Daughter Matters’, a not-for-profit registered charity which aims to intercept young girls who are being trafficked from Nepal to India. The girls are...

western australia

india

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Fiacre Banks @Judyev isn’t it so strange how such extreme suffering and evil exist in the same world as the beauty of roses.

26 Oct

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (15481) • Ireland 26 Oct

I’m feeling quite smug today, and justifiably so. Some have mocked my stockpiling of emergency rations in case of some sort of emergency - storms, war, snow, plague etc. I have been putting away tinned food etc but I’m not...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (15024) • United Kingdom 25 Oct

So. I’m watching one of my favourite films ……but what is it ? We are back in the 50’s It’s a musical There is a gang of girls and a gang of boys It’s a love story Practically every song was a hit The leads are Danny and...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I’ve never seen it but I know what you’re talking about. At the end of the 70s I worked in A&E in Belfast’s main hospital and I was baffled because I’d heard about the Pink Ladies in Grease and discovered that the hospital had three Pink Ladies of...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (94) • United States 25 Oct

There was a story today in the online news about championship rings for a certain team in a certain sport. I don't remember the exact details. But here's what got me: They spend $3.7 million dollars for 22 carat championship...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville There are so many unnecessarily expensive trinkets given out in sport and showbiz. Vanity of vanities.

25 Oct

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