Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13770)

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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My homemade Aachi Chicken and Vegetable Masala Biryani

Jimlos Tatooth @Ineeddentures (4878) 5h

My homemade AachinChicken and Vegetable Masala Biryani. Triumphant am I. It actually went according to plan, step by step, and turned out exactly how I imagined it would, apart from the colour, I was hoping it would be more...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures I’m always suspicious of that radioactive looking sauce that usually smothers some chicken dishes. Couldn’t be good for you. Yours looks less vicious.

Let's Leave Flying to the Birds

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (86108) • Daytona Beach, Florida 5h

Even though things worked out in favor of the passengers a Ryanair plane crashed into a barrier on the runway landing from London at a Greek airport. Then passengers were finally disembarked, the plane inspected, and left in...

ryanair hits fence while landing

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Fiacre Banks @rasmasandra And this is the airline that wanted to charge for using the toilet!! I’ve flown Ryanair a few times but never again.

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A Soaring Sauna

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (42) • United States 14h

In Finland, saunas are of course a way of life. But there's one there that tops all of them. There is a sauna cabin that glides through the sky suspended in a ski lift. It's a heated gondola where guests first take a...

sauna

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I’ll pass on floating through the air in that thing. I might feel somewhat vulnerable dangling midair in a steam crate with no clothes on. What if it broke down?

Now I Know What An Ornithopter Is

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (42) • United States 13h

Isn't that a cool word . . . "ornithopter" I ran across it on the internet today and delved into finding out what it was. An ornithopter is a type of aircraft that flies by flapping its wings kind of like birds, bats and insects...

ornithopter

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Sounds as crazy as that thing I flew on yesterday from France.

Yes, I Know That I Don't Always Eat Healthy

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (42) • United States 6h

I've been nothing but transparent about both my good eating habits as well as my bad eating habits over the years. Last year I lost 30 pounds in six months and didn't eat a single bite of chocolate. That was good. Two years...

healthy eating

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville You know best how your body functions. Lots of advice around but the decision on what way to go is all yours so listen to yourself and do what you know works. I have the opposite problem with food - seems like we’re damned if we eat and damned if...

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A Very Cool Thing

Amber @AmbiePam (99443) • United States 17h

Someone did the sweetest thing for me. You remember me talking about how some cruise goers hide ducks for others to find them (kids love it)? I was getting into the spirit for our family cruise in a couple months, then, long story...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Thoughtful people are nice. I must be more thoughtful.

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A full day for us tomorrow

Judy Evans @JudyEv (356320) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jun

Tomorrow, we have two functions to attend. Hopefully, we’ll be able to cope with so much activity on the one day. In the morning, we’ll attend a play called 21 Hearts. It tells the story of Vivian Bullwinkel, one...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Harrowing play no doubt but reality has to be faced. We just watched the 1970s TV series Tenko about women interned by the Japanese.

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There are 44 Countries in Europe

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (42) • United States 18 Jun

Somebody asked me what I'm going to do next now that I've visited 100 countries. She, being from Canada, suggested that I visit all the provinces in Canada. I've been to all 50 states in the United States. So I'm looking at the...

travel

europe

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Strange how Europe keeps getting redefined. Armenia etc and Turkey used not to be “European” but now Morocco is viewed as European by many.

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Well, it’s done! (final Apartment Update?)

Amber @AmbiePam (99443) • United States 16 Jun

So today was the day we had been told by text the new manager would be in. You might remember the inspector is coming back tomorrow (I had passed my portion of the inspection…they had not). I told them my smoke alarms had to be...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Progress! That’s great.

16 Jun

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Do you have a hypothesis as to why that Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed in India?

The Horse @TheHorse (227766) • Walnut Creek, California 16 Jun

Like many of us I have watched several reports about the Air India crash the other day. The plane went down slowly and gracefully, killing all but one person on board and several people on the ground. The pilot made a mayday...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse I’m flying Wednesday so I’d rather not think about these things.

16 Jun

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Maybe I can keep this dust-free now

Judy Evans @JudyEv (356320) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Jun

The photo shows a lovely carved box that Vince gave me before we were married. I keep our handkerchiefs in it. The only downside is that the box is hard to dust because of all the tiny indentations. I used to use an old toothbrush...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev I got one of those vacuums recently. Useful for all sorts but very whiny

15 Jun

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Week Five at Tuneless Choir.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30664) • Lichfield, England 14 Jun

I went to Tuneless Choir again on Wednesday, and it was my fifth week at Tuneless Choir. These are the songs that we were supposed to be singing, that were sent to us by email:- Wellerman by [i]Nathan...

tuneless choir

playlist

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton I do like the version of Sloop John B offered by Me First and the Gimme Gimmies. Is the sound your choir makes really as callithumpian as its title suggests?

14 Jun

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Wednesday's trip to the big Tesco.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30664) • Lichfield, England 14 Jun

I went to the big Tesco again on Wednesday. I got rid of the soft recycle as usual, and went up on the lift. The first thing I got was an Artists and Illustrators magazine. Then I got 2 bottles of water. Then I went and got myself...

shopping

tesco

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton I did my shop in Carrefour supermarket in Bayeux. Nothing exciting, just milk and water and biscuits.

14 Jun

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India is doing wrong blocking water to Pakistan

vanny @vandana7 (101974) • India 14 Jun

Our war is against the leaders, more specifically, Armed forces of Pakistan. Why would we destroy crops and make the country poorer than it is already? 45 percent of people there live below poverty line. By blocking water, we...

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Fiacre Banks @verdana7 It’s always the innocent who suffer most in was. It has always been that way and it’s not likely to change unfortunately.

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We are expecting two really tall guests

Jimlos Tatooth @Ineeddentures (4878) 9 Jun

We are expecting 2 really tall guests. Really tall. And as I didn't want potentially dirty heads rubbing on our pristine walls I adjusted the seating arrangements. I hope they remember to duck as they enter through the front...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures My parents had an unreasonably tall friend who used to visit and me and my brother used to sit and stare and giggle. We called him the chest of drawers, the other word for which is tallboy.

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Ice Cubes

Jimlos Tatooth @Ineeddentures (4878) 9 Jun

Ice cubes It occurred to me that I should post a discussion about our ice cubes as people might like to know how we make them. We put water in the wee cube tray and then freeze it. When frozen we take the cubes out of the tray...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures For some reason as a teenager I found it funny to put a dead fly in each little cube of water before freezing it. Nobody else in the family was amused.

9 Jun

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Have you heard of the pub test?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (356320) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jun

The photo is of the goat at our B&B. There isn’t much to say about it so it gets its 10 seconds of fame here. Do your newspapers ever talk about ‘the pub test’? ‘Pub’ is short for ‘public house’ or ‘hotel’ and the word is very...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev This is a test that commends itself to me. The ordinary person ought to have more say in important matters rather than suited ‘experts’.

9 Jun

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What is the best thing in your life right now?

Amber @AmbiePam (99443) • United States 9 Jun

I’m having a hard time, and things aren’t the greatest, so I wanted to hear some good things. What is the best thing in your life right now? Go into detail if you feel like it. *I’ll be fine.

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Sorry you’re getting it tough. My garden flowers help me a lot. I planted them but God made them.

9 Jun

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Omg a woman's logic.

Jimlos Tatooth @Ineeddentures (4878) 8 Jun

So we're are eating dinner Yes right now And I just had to stop eating to post this post. We were discussing what we should eat next And Yvonne suggested the cake she baked yesterday And then suggested she thought I didn't...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures It’s like if she buys you a red pullover and a blue one and you put the blue one on and she then asks if you don’t like the red one. I gave up years ago.

8 Jun

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Gnomesville revisited

Judy Evans @JudyEv (356320) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jun

Yesterday, we drove through Gnomesville to get to where we were going. We had a bit of time to spare so we stopped and had a wander. For anyone who hasn’t read my previous posts about Gnomesville, it’s a collection of gnomes...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev For just the flicker of a second there I was pondering why gnomes need toilets built for them.

8 Jun

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