Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (10477)

Ireland

Joined myLot 7 years ago

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

Discussions (7)

Responses (7431)

Comments (3039)

Mentions (3171)

Followers (375)

Fiacre Banks's Discussions

Self protection.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 2h

I’ve been wondering with all this stuff that’s going on the world and things getting a bit dangerous, might it be a good idea for me to take out personal membership of NATO? I hear they offer frequent flyer points for first time...

Drip, glug, ahhh.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 5h

Heavy, persistent rain. Irish rain, cold and falling straight down out of the evening sky like silver rods. Lovely to shelter from it under the thick canopy of an ancient oak getting only half wet while the air trapped along with...

Feline transmogrification

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 15h

Last night I woke from a dream in which my wife’s cat had transmogrified into a hippopotamus. I wasn’t sure if the cat had actually turned into a hippo or if she had run away and been replaced by the hippo so I didn’t know if I...

5 responses •

4 people

Men buying clothes.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 16 May

I hate buying clothes - I’m a man. I prefer a visit to the dentist to the nightmare that is a clothes shop. Today the nightmare recurred because I’m off to England on Thursday and my tattered old wardrobe just won’t cut it. But...

15 responses •

12 people

A deceptive bottom.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 15 May

Only recently did I discover that my wife, noticing that I always lower myself onto chairs with care, suspected that I have piles. I am not thusly afflicted of course. My gentle lowering of my nether quarters onto chairs was...

7 responses •

7 people

A new order may be coming.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 15 May

In this world of uncertainty and instability, with all of the givens of past ages challenged and the old, unmovable truths blown wide open, do you ever worry that one day it will be demonstrated that two plus two does not make...

6 responses •

5 people

The spoilation of my sweet repose.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (10477) • Ireland 14 May

I do hope that sharing the dream I’ve just woken from is going to be therapeutic because it has me all of a dither and it’s a long time till morning. In the dream I was nineteen again. I rolled out of bed and did my nudey run...

7 responses •

6 people