
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.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
23h

When we visited the old Fremantle Gaol yesterday, we were able to view some of the cells. When the jail was first built, the cells were very small indeed but later two were made into one, giving prisoners a bit more room. Several...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 May

My husband and I went on a bus trip today with members of a Probus club. We don’t belong to Probus but we helped make up the numbers they needed so the tour could go ahead.
Firstly, we stopped at a lovely park to have morning...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev A good bit of history. Belfast’s old gaol is now a visitor attraction but I have no interest in visiting. I used to visit inmates in a professional capacity and it was a thoroughly miserable experience each time. Water seeped from the walls and the...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 May

I wrote recently about school lunches and enjoyed reading the comments about what people had for lunch when they were going to school.
My husband worked as a bursar (business manager) in a very expensive boarding school for boys...
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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl
@1creekgirl (31265)
• United States
14 May

Today's the day Kristin has dreamed about for thirty two years. The weather is perfect and the rehearsal dinner last night was wonderful.
It was at High Cotton in downtown Charleston, SC. Lots of beautiful people (many college...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 May

Phrases come and go in popularity. Words like ‘hip’, ‘groovy’, ‘cool’ and ‘with it’ have all had their turn in the popularity stakes.
One we’re seeing and hearing more and more here is ‘reach out’. You don’t ‘contact’ a company...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev People do seem to come up with new expressions for old practices. This one makes me think of the Diana Ross song “Reach out and touch somebody’s hand, make this a better world if you can”. Sugar sweet, sickly and sentimental. I did read last week a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 May

I wrote that we visited ‘Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition’ this morning. You can catch up here: https://www.mylot.com/post/3508554/michelangelo-comes-to-fremantle-western-australia
The informative signage and audio...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev I do find indecorous crowds somewhat tiresome. There is a Church we worship at when in county Sligo, the one beside which a body said to be that of Yeats is buried. During the service insensate tourists feel quite free to wander about snapping merrily...
11 May
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Fleur
@Fleura (20117)
• United Kingdom
9 May

Every now and then we keep hearing that cash is now dead, and of course it is more convenient than ever to use cashless payment methods, especially after the pandemic when official guidance encouraged everyone to use contactless...
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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl
@1creekgirl (31265)
• United States
5 May

Just left urgent care and am so thankful I don't have covid, the flu, or strep throat.
But I do have a bad kidney infection and got a Rocefen injection. I'll pick up strong antibiotics since the UTI I had three weeks ago probably...
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (181994)
• United States
5 May

Today will always be Daddy's birthday. He has been gone five years now. And missed every single day. Thankfully I have a lifetime of memories to keep me going.
The photo was a gift I gave him many years ago. He kept it on his...
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Karen Hellier
@Kouponkaren (3166)
• United States
1 May

I posted the other day that we came back from the cruise and my husband caught a cold. Now I am not so sure that's what it is.
On Friday I woke up feeling awful. I had chills, body aches and was exhausted. Yesterday was better...
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Gill
@Gillygirl (47066)
• Sutton, England
30 Apr

Of all the flowers in my garden the tree peony is my favourite. Unfortunately it doesn't bloom for long and if there is any wind or rain the flowers get destroyed.
It is at it's full glory now. Rain was forecast but there...
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Gill
@Gillygirl (47066)
• Sutton, England
29 Apr

Time is flying by. I can't believe it is nearly May. The weather is a little chilly for the time of year and rain has been forecast over the weekend.
On May 13th it will be my twin granddaughter's first birthday. They are very...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Apr

We are taking off in the caravan today and will be away about ten days. We are going to free-camp tonight at Dardanup, a small town in the south-west of Western Australia. We will probably have a meal tonight in the hotel.
Last...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev How remiss of the cartographer to get such a distinctive looking island the wrong way round.
29 Apr
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Fleur
@Fleura (20117)
• United Kingdom
29 Apr

I inherited a lot of random things from my parents, and I know what most of them are, but this one was a mystery. It’s been hanging around in my bedroom for several years already while we occasionally fiddled with it and wondered...
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Fleur
@Fleura (20117)
• United Kingdom
26 Apr

I started writing a response to a post by @MarieCoyle about inventions, and the response got so long I had to make it into a post of its own.
Years ago (in the 50 and 60s) there was much talk about the life of leisure that we...
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Fiacre Banks @fleura Please - no unwashed undies, but everything else can be worn more than once. “Pants worn twice aren’t very nice” I’m told. Too many people fall for the advertisers’ lies unfortunately. I well remember wash day being on a Monday. I also remember my...
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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl
@1creekgirl (31265)
• United States
26 Apr

No, I'm not talking about your "personality", I'm talking about your cooking methods.
Do you use a lot of spicy spices or are your meals a little milder than some?
I guess mine are a combo, although my spicy dishes aren't as...
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (119139)
• Roseburg, Oregon
24 Apr

The results from taking a hot bath is just as good as exercise.
Hot baths and exercise spike your temperature and gives you good blood flow and releases anti-inflammatory compounds.
Take one to two hot baths per week to...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (274893)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Apr

My mother kept a diary for many, many years and I’ve been slowly going through them and more or less summarising them. They document the day-to-day activities on the farm, rather than her thoughts and feelings.
We had a lot of...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev Ah the constant battle for survival between (wo)man and beast.
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Gill
@Gillygirl (47066)
• Sutton, England
23 Apr

I haven't been around again today. Unfortunately my eldest grandson had an accident at school yesterday afternoon.
He tripped and fell during a physical education class yesterday afternoon. He hit his head hard on the corner of...
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