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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Paintings in a cell

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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Fiacre Banks @judyev I suspect anything would brighten up a cell, but those are quite magnificent.

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We visit Fremantle Gaol

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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Always the same ten cereals

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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Fiacre Banks @judyev Did Vince not tell them that the little starving boys and girls in Africa would love to have the food they were turning their noses up at?!!

14 May

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A bittersweet occasion

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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smiles and tears

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Fiacre Banks @1creekgirl There's never a good time. Blessings.

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Do you 'reach out' to others?

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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Michelangelo comes to Fremantle, Part II

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...

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Is cash dead?

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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Fiacre Banks @fleura I carry cash in case I need to use a French public toilet (and you know just how public french loos can be).

9 May

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Thank our merciful God I don't have Covid!

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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Fiacre Banks 1creekgirl Goodness, but you're never done with visits to the hospital. Hope this infection is your last for a long time.

5 May

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Happy Birthday Daddy

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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Fiacre Banks @caroldm My mother was born on May 5 and died 5 years ago. (Napoleon died on 5 May but that was in 1821!)

5 May

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I Just Tested Positive For Covid19

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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Fiacre Banks @kouponkaren Not that I am aware of though I had a violent reaction to the booster. I'm quite good at isolating!

2 May

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Hurray! It's May!

M.-L. @MALUSE (68171) • Germany 1 May

It's Labour Day and a holiday like in many other European countries. But it's not only a political day, it's also a day steeped in tradition. Either the night before or on 1st May proper, elaborately decorated maypoles are erected...

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Fiacre Banks @maluse Young men in my village don’t really need the excuse of protecting a maypole to stay up all night drinking.

1 May

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My favourite flower is blooming

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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Fiacre Banks @gillygirl A rather pulchritudenous flower it is too. I favour poppies, cornflowers and yellow carnations.

30 Apr

Only a couple of weeks to go

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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Fiacre Banks @gillygirl We had quite a heavy frost covering the fields this morning. I’m sure you’ll just love bundles of giggles at the birthday.

29 Apr

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Down under and back to front

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...

western australia

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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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Do you know what this is?

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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Fiacre Banks @fleura Surgeon’s vasectomy tool?

29 Apr

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Do gadgets make our lives easier?

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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Are you salty or sweet?

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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Fiacre Banks @1creekgirl Cooking without black pepper? Impossible. I love spicy food and bung in just about everything. Especially fond though of herbs - I just love scrunching up fresh Basil, thyme, oregano and rosemary and then running my fingers through my hair....

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Hot Baths

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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Fiacre Banks @jstory07 And in a hot bath in your own house you don’t have to mingle with sweaty fellow exercisers. I put Epsom salts in my bath.

25 Apr

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My mother declared war on a fox

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.

24 Apr

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A hole in the head

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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Fiacre Banks @gillygirl You never know what a day’s going to bring. So glad he’s mending.

24 Apr