Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14096)

Ireland

Joined myLot 10 years ago

An Irishman who has called many places home, enjoys whiskey in moderation and reads Dostoyevsky frequently.

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Forks.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 14 Dec

I ate well tonight in my favourite place in Chorlton, a Turkish place where the staff are better than excellent as is the food. A truly memorable evening. The only thing that introduced a less than savoury note was the thought...

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Fiacre Banks @ladydick This is the sensible way to think.

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Wythenshawe Christmas.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 13 Dec

We took our granddaughter to Wythenshawe Hall today for a Victorian Christmassy thing - I hated it but everyone else enjoyed it so I just shut up and smiled. I just want to strangle people who dress up as elves and assume everyone...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse These are what the rich used to indicate that they had money to burn while their servants ran about barefoot back in the day.

13 Dec

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Kalista the Greek.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 10 Dec

Kalista was Greek and wrote poems about freedom, or that's what she said they were about: I couldn't read Greek back then in 1974 and I'm not much better now having peaked somewhere around 1993 and travelled only downhill since...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I loved it - languages are my thing. No-one else I studied with liked it at all.

10 Dec

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Are you a baby person?

Fleur @Fleura (33158) • United Kingdom 30 Nov

I was never a baby person. I know a lot of people love babies, and some who positively go crazy cooing over them and cuddling them, but I’m not one of them. In the past, when a work colleague brought their offspring in to show...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura I also enjoy my grandbabies but beyond that, no thanks.

30 Nov

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Just another lemon tree.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 28 Nov

Gentlemen who reach retirement need to find new interests, as do ladies. It’s perhaps more noticeable in gentlemen because ladies, to my observation, are more sociable and continue with the friendships and activities already...

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Fiacre Banks @ladyduck IT's so important to have something to do, preferably something creative.

28 Nov

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Lamb for Sunday roast ….what a treat.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 23 Nov

Yes. Today is Sunday and that means a Sunday roast. Today we had a real treat as The Mister went to the farm shop near to where he was working and got a huge leg of lamb. Lamb is very expensive here at any time but even more so...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne I’d never eat it any other way. Just had a mediocre Indian in Edinburgh. Very mediocre.

24 Nov

Trump Economics : Italian Pasta factor : Tariffs Loom Over Italian Imports

Ptrikha_2 @ptrikha_2 (48859) • India 21 Nov

The US Commerce Department has launched an anti-dumping review that could leave pasta lovers boiling. Officials allege Italian manufacturers are selling below market cost, threatening a massive 92% duty on top of existing 15%...

trade war

italian imports

pasta factor

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Fiacre Banks @ladyduck Of course we should all be making our own pasta - it’s so good made fresh if you have the skill.

21 Nov

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Got my last sick note.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 19 Nov

Well, after much hanging around this morning I saw the Consultant …..he liked my x ray …. He has given me a sick note until 19th January. Then he says I may go back to work. If I don’t feel able to I have to go back to him. I...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne How sneaky of them. That’s not nice.

19 Nov

No Trump getting an MRI isn't standard

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125607) • United States 16 Nov

This guy is out of his mind. He recently had his second "annual" physical at Walter Reed Hospital even though annual means once a year. Word got out that it involved an MRI so naturally reporters wanted to know what area of his...

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Fiacre Banks @BarBaraPrz Butt could he spell them correctly?

16 Nov

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Fish & Chips for Friday tea …..and a chocolate eclair.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 14 Nov

As you may know we usually have a takeaway on a Friday Sometimes we go out to eat , but mainly a takeaway. Tonight we decided on Fish and Chips. I was a bit disappointed that the chip shop hadn’t done battered chips tonight. I...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Well, yes. But I’m getting so bored with food. Don’t know what to have tomorrow.

14 Nov

Just paid nearly £50 for toilet rolls ! Must be feeling flush !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 13 Nov

Well, ever since Covid when we had a National shortage of toilet rolls I have been getting mine and Moms from Amazon. I use the vouchers that I get from my receipt apps so it doesn’t cost me anything, and I usually get a good...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Restaurants, hotels etc don’t seem to realise the importance of good quality toilet paper and would provide yesterday’s newspaper if they could get away with it. It’s a false economy, because the customer needs to use more of the thin stuff than...

14 Nov

Have you ever got points on or lost your driving license ?

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 12 Nov

I was talking to The Mister earlier and he was telling me about a work colleague of his ….who I have met a few times ….and the fact that due to several speeding offences he has now lost his license. Unfortunately, they have a job...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne This must be why my wife's insurance is cheaper than mine.

13 Nov

Do you like a quiche ?

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 11 Nov

I admit ….not that it’s a guilty pleasure …I love a quiche. You can really put pretty much anything into a quiche. I like quiche Lorraine ….bacon , cheese and onion. A popular store do a broccoli and tomato quiche and that is...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne I love it even though it smells of furniture polish. Goes really well with ricotta.

11 Nov

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Sick in Algiers

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 11 Nov

Birds have taken charge of Evensong outside my bedroom window tonight. It’s still not dark, but I’ve been lying here a while to rest my aching back, and as soon as dusk began to gather so did the birds. It takes me back to being...

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Fiacre Banks @Fleura Delirium is a two-faced mistress.

11 Nov

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Sick in Algiers

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 11 Nov

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Fiacre Banks @daddyevil Maybe they should record themselves and play it back, then they'll see what you mean.

11 Nov

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My tea was frozen, then the veggies went mushy !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 10 Nov

So, we go to my Moms on a Sunday for a roast dinner, and she always puts a dinner up for me for Monday teatime. The Mister put the shopping away yesturday and the dinner for today went into the fridge. So about an hour ago I went...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne It just didn’t all come together somehow. Perhaps I’m losing my touch. Maybe the missus’s turn to do the cooking.

10 Nov

Autumn walk near Ballylesson.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14096) • Ireland 7 Nov

Light, bright sunshine on a Friday morning in November matches my mood - no work to see to, just rest and the time to savour light, bright autumnal sunshine. There’s little in the air by way of warmth, but climbing up through the...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev a common enough sight on rotting logs in the countryside. Magnificent display.

8 Nov

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Going out for lunch and a shopping trip…..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 5 Nov

Every few weeks my Mom and her neighbour Barbara get together and go out for lunch and then have a little shopping trip. As I’ve been off work and staying with Mom for a while I sometimes go with them. Barbara rang today and...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne 49 days till Christmas and 50 till it’s over.

6 Nov

Going out for lunch and a shopping trip…..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 5 Nov

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne This depresses me. Christmas depresses me. If only I were a tortoise or a grizzly bear I could hibernate through it and waken when it’s done.

6 Nov

Cucumber and onion for Sunday tea …..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6724) • United Kingdom 5 Nov

Some of you may have had this before and some of you may not believe it to be true …..but it is, honestly. One of the most popular things we had for tea on a Sunday when I was a child was cucumber and onion sandwiches. Sometimes...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne I have a hypochondriacal aunt who lives on panede.

6 Nov