Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14990)
Ireland
Joined myLot 11 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 (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jul
On Saturday, Vince and I went to a quiz night at the clubhouse. We hadn’t intended to go but our friends had double-booked themselves so we said we’d go in their place. Vince always takes photos of the people at the tables and...
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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Square poop? Gives another take on the saying ‘sh!tting bricks’.
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12320)
• United Kingdom
19 Jul
We popped into a supermarket for some wine glasses .....that's another post for tomorrow ....and outside there were some plants.
The Mister can never walk past plants of any kind ....I knew what was coming ...
Yes.....I spotted...
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Fleur
@Fleura (35813)
• United Kingdom
19 Jul
Two friends, Chloe and Malcolm, have come to stay. They arrived yesterday and they were in the kitchen chatting to me and to Antonio and Paola (who I had invited to join us for dinner) and at the same time everyone was trying to...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul
After we finished viewing the sailing ship Leeuwin, we stopped at the Gage Roads café. Gage Roads is the name given to the area outside Fremantle Port where ships wait to enter the harbour.
Rather than order a coffee, Vince...
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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Beer is magnificent. Last week I bought my son-in-law a pack of the beer pictured above. I chose randomly in a bottle shop and by coincidence it’s his favourite. He quarters a lemon and pushes it down to bottle neck and it’s astoundingly good on a hot...
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Wendy
@jerzgirl (9410)
• United States
18 Jul
Jonas Salk created the first immunization for polio in 1954, the year I was born. It began to be used in 1955 around the world. The virus used at that time was an inactivated (dead) polio virus and was delivered by way of an...
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Fiacre Banks @jerzgirl I remember the sugar cube. In 1960 when I was 2 my parents were told I had polio. They were given no hope of me surviving very long and they took me home to just look after me and they cried and cried. 66 years later I’m still waiting for the polio...
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12320)
• United Kingdom
19 Jul
Well, last night after our steak meal The Mister and I decided that we had just about got room for a dessert.
This isn't something that we usually do ....
We checked out the menu and one thing jumped out to both of us ....
I...
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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I’ve put on weight just reading that. I never take dessert in a restaurant because they usually disappoint. An exceptionally good crumble with custard I can’t resist however, but you don’t know what the quality is like till it arrives by which...
19 Jul
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
18 Jul
Not that I’m a huge fan of foul language, now mind you, but I think Irish people might do it best
There this Irish actor I’ve been watching, James Nesbitt, whose accent, including the cuss words, I quite enjoy
I’ve seen him in...
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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Fiacre concurs. Although not given to salty language myself, I do find the coarse way in which others express themselves in my country somewhat picturesque. James doesn’t go around expressing himself thusly in his real life though, and he’s quite...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul
Yesterday the training sail ship, Leeuwin, was open to the public so we went to Fremantle to have a look. It isn’t a replica but was designed as a training ship. There does seem to be an awful lot of ropes. I imagine it would take...
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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv Oh for a long sea voyage. Not one with discos etc of course. Just a skilled crew who would ignore me and let me sit looking pensively out to sea, their busyness contrasting with my indolence as we would sail round the Cape of Good Hope and over to the...
18 Jul
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12320)
• United Kingdom
18 Jul
Well, I am at the caravan and The Mister was to have the Grandkids by himself overnight and then come to the caravan later today .
However, there are a few things happening with friends of theirs and that meant that The Mister...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul
The photo is another from the training sailing ship Leeuwin which is docked in Fremantle Harbour in Western Australia. In the kitchen was a notice regarding the disposal of various waste materials. The rules apply only when the...
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Fiacre Banks @judyev It doesn’t really sound like it’s meaning to my ear, but now I have a new word to use.
18 Jul
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul
When we were travelling by motor-home in Europe, we had a map of Australia on the back window and we did what we could to let people know that we were from Australia and not from England.
While we were high in the mountains...
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
17 Jul
I’m watching an episode of a court TV show and the plaintiff is just flat out lying about someone owing her money
The judges did a background check on her and she had filed for bankruptcy 5 times in ten years. She was using the...
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Jimbo45
@Ineeddentures (38648)
16 Jul
Empire Biscuit
That's what you can see in the picture
An Empire Biscuit
I don't really like Empire apart from Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back
The British Empire is a shame on us all.
The Royal family especially.
But...
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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures I adore these particular confections. They are a reminder of one part of my childhood in Africa where I lived among many Scots. German biscuits is their name in Ireland and England, but I do believe the Scots changed the name to dissociate...
16 Jul
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
16 Jul
I’ve never smoked cigarettes, not even the “funny” ones.
My mom was a heavy smoker for over 50 years. Any time she gave us something from her house, it would reek of smoke
I’m rarely around smokers but when I am, I can smell a...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (385109)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
Occasionally in discussions I’ve mentioned ACE (Animal Care in Egypt). ACE was started by two English women who were visiting Luxor and found the conditions of working animals very confronting.
Julie Wartenberg and her niece,...
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LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (63)
• United States
15 Jul
I’ve never heard a person with a college degree bash anyone who wasn’t formally educated
But I’ve heard so many people without college degrees bash people who have degrees
“Just because you have a degree doesn’t mean you’re...
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12320)
• United Kingdom
14 Jul
The weather has been so hot the last few days and I just haven't felt like cooking. Tonight I just wanted ' proper ' food.
For the longest time I couldn't decide what to have.
Then I remembered I had mince beef in the fridge .......
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12320)
• United Kingdom
14 Jul
I bought two tubs of ice cream at the weekend and although it had been really melting weather I hadn't opened either of them.
Tonight I just fancied a nice bowl of ice cream ....
I chose the raspberry ripple ice cream ....
Ooohhh...
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Jimbo45
@Ineeddentures (38648)
14 Jul
Today's trip to Ullapool was a really good one.
Another gorgeous day, warm and sunny
Traffic not too bad
70 miles each way surrounded by scenery at it's Scottish finest
No wonder the tourists love Scotland.
So we got there...
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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures Sometimes we need to have our plans disrupted for better things to happen.
14 Jul
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