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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 9h

To be honest, I haven't seen many documentaries. At the gym this week, though, there's been this show called something like "30/30" or something from ESPN, it's from a long time ago and it's been highlighting past athletes and...

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Fiacre Banks @LooeyVille Makes you wonder what the writers based this on!

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 18h

I’m off on the trot again. As I write that I’m suddenly aware that I may be giving my readers a false impression, “on the trot” being a euphemism for diarrhoea, and I have no such affliction, currently, and intend keeping it that...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I know, much easier to call it the trots. And who can ever remember how to correctly spell haemorrhoids? Piles will do.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • 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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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 (14388) • 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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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • 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 (14388) • 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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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • 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 @judyev I promise to think of you in May when I’ll be eating fresh baguettes in Bayeux unless Donald bombs the place first.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • 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 @ambiepam I was born grumpy.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 12 Mar

I am interested …. Do people still have dinner parties ? ….have you hosted a dinner party ? What was your menu ? Why did you choose those ? Did you have entertainment ? What was it ? How many guests did you invite to your...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne I imagine it wasn’t too sophisticated. We lived in the bush with electricity for 4 hours a day and no shops for 60 miles.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 12 Mar

I got to Manchester and into the house we’re staying in, but I feel brutalised. I always feel brutalised after travelling and little wonder. We left the house at 7.30 to drive to the airport and of course all the empty spaces...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I couldn’t cope with that. Sometimes I wonder how I’ll cope with heaven with it being so perfect.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 10 Mar

I rarely order takeaway food because it’s never very nice, but I relented this evening because we’re going away tomorrow and I am just too busy to cook. It was a disaster. I ordered a selection of items from an Indian takeaway,...

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Fiacre Banks @Ineeddentures Or go the whole hog and fly to New Delhi, the site of my most satisfying culinary experiences.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 10 Mar

I rarely order takeaway food because it’s never very nice, but I relented this evening because we’re going away tomorrow and I am just too busy to cook. It was a disaster. I ordered a selection of items from an Indian takeaway,...

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Fiacre Banks @Ineeddentures You would think!!

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 10 Mar

Question of the day ….. Do you eat sausage rolls ? I do love a good sausage roll, but I don’t eat them very often. I have them from Greggs sometimes ….but haven’t they got expensive ! I wonder if you make sausage rolls or buy...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Yet people persist in ordering them!! Most people must not be as discerning as us. And I usually find that the little pick of salad on the side has been microwaved too. Who microwaves lettuce?

10 Mar

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 10 Mar

I rarely order takeaway food because it’s never very nice, but I relented this evening because we’re going away tomorrow and I am just too busy to cook. It was a disaster. I ordered a selection of items from an Indian takeaway,...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures If I don’t get a half decent Indian in Manchester tomorrow night I’ll be dismayed. Had an awful one in Edinburgh last month - very watery and insipid.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 10 Mar

Question of the day ….. Do you eat sausage rolls ? I do love a good sausage roll, but I don’t eat them very often. I have them from Greggs sometimes ….but haven’t they got expensive ! I wonder if you make sausage rolls or buy...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne The best here are from Asher’s bakery and yes, they’re expensive. Cafes always seem to microwave them … why?

10 Mar

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 9 Mar

So after going over to our late neighbours house and rescuing lots of items, we had a think and went back over when his daughter came and we asked if we could have the wooden ladders and garden bench. Oh , the daughter was...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Kept it. Rather proud of myself.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 9 Mar

I do love a kitkat…..don’t have them very often though. Last week The Mister bought a pack and bought them in from the van at the weekend when he had an attack of the munchies….. Oh, my happy days …..he has left them at home. It...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Yes, all very 1970s!

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 9 Mar

So after going over to our late neighbours house and rescuing lots of items, we had a think and went back over when his daughter came and we asked if we could have the wooden ladders and garden bench. Oh , the daughter was...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne this was my attempt at up cycling a dilapidated chest of drawers.

9 Mar

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 8 Mar

Retirement has given me more time to address dilemmas heretofore left to simmer because of the pressures of a busy life. Just tonight I revisited an old chestnut that perhaps you too are wrestling with, and if that is the case I’d...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures Restaurant standards have slumped here while prices have levitated. And I’m not sure about the quality of clientele.

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