Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (50) • United States 16h

Many of you have heard me talk about the annoying Texas girls Here’s the back story We meet them in 2018 on a Halloween cruise to the Panama Canal. They were seated with us and 9 other strangers at our dinner table. We struck up...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Surely it shouldn’t be too difficult to decline further cruises in the company? Of course if you say you can’t afford it next time then head off on a cruise alone, they’d be sure to turn up. Life’s like that.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 13h

We went to the Wet Knicker restaurant tonight for an evening meal (see a much earlier post to understand its name). What a mistake. The good thing was that there was no room in the bar to eat so we were assigned a table in the...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (50) • United States 31 Oct

You can so many food options onboard a cruise ship Whether you have allergies or special dietary needs like gluten free or vegan, they try to accommodate you Attached is s a sample of some of tonight’s vegan dinner options Do...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I only eat carefully prepared, tasty, adult food. No unhealthy junk.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 31 Oct

I sat a while today in my favourite spot in all of Ireland, in the Gothic Orangerie at Gleann Bheatha castle. Ok, so I don’t get out much. On a freezing cold autumn afternoon there’s little to do in Donegal, and to sit here a...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura You are right! Argh. I’ll have to work on that.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 31 Oct

I sat a while today in my favourite spot in all of Ireland, in the Gothic Orangerie at Gleann Bheatha castle. Ok, so I don’t get out much. On a freezing cold autumn afternoon there’s little to do in Donegal, and to sit here a...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (50) • United States 31 Oct

There was a trivia contest and in between questions he said the first five people on the dance floor could compete for a trophy. So naturally I ran right up there He lined us up and said to “race” across the floor like zombies...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville You’re not safe to be let out on your own. I do hope you were clad in respectable understuff. A senior policeman here a few years ago asked on TV that young “ladies” going out on a Saturday night to get drunk should wear nice panties for the sake...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 30 Oct

I got to speak Irish today when I went into a cafe in Donegal. “Ba mhaith liom caife le do hoil” I told the girl at the counter. Since coffee was then produced I guess she understood me and didn’t think I was proposing marriage....

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Fiacre Banks @fleura There are places where the miles yet to travel to one’s destination increase as you follow the road then suddenly one arrives

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125125) • United States 30 Oct

This is interesting. After a disastrous TV interview about Jeffrey Epstein and sex trafficking victim Virginia Guiffre Andrew's mother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of his honorary titles and removed him as a working member of...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa He always was troublesome. His finances also may now come under police scrutiny. The whole system is suspect and outdated and needs to be replaced, not just pruned. Your esteemed leader may yet get to buy one of the castles the UK may now want to...

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (90431) • Daytona Beach, Florida 30 Oct

This news from Brisbane, Australia, disturbed me greatly, and I had to share. An 80-year-old woman spent a lot of money to go on a cruise. Passengers took a small cruise ship, the Coral Adventure, and docked at Lizard Island, a...

woman left behind by cruise ship

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Fiacre Banks @rasmasandra A bit remiss of those in charge to have lost her. You might expect more on such an expensive trip.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 30 Oct

I got to speak Irish today when I went into a cafe in Donegal. “Ba mhaith liom caife le do hoil” I told the girl at the counter. Since coffee was then produced I guess she understood me and didn’t think I was proposing marriage....

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6162) • United Kingdom 29 Oct

Well, last night I checked the bus timetable and decided that I would have a little tootle into town. As we are a seaside town we are now on out of season timetable so the buses are not so often. I woke early ....yay ....but then...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Living in this country we just have to get on with it. We are having wind problems now. No, not that sort of wind.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6162) • United Kingdom 28 Oct

Do you remember when you were a kid and when it was your Birthday someone would say "Happy Birthday to you, squashed tomatoes and stew " and then would burst into hysterical laughter as they thought it was the funniest thing ever...

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Fiacre Banks @Traceyjayne Now that would be most cringe worthy.

28 Oct

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (125125) • United States 28 Oct

I have to say that I'm surprised because he seems to have about as much of a backbone as jellyfish Mitch McConnell, Tommy Tuberville, and James Comer. Johnson was a constitutional lawyer--who knew--and he is saying that he spoke...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Well Paul Biya has just been elected as president of Cameroon for the 6th time. There’s just no getting rid of him. Maybe it’s to do with having a much younger wife who likes wearing extravagant hats for everyone to admire.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (50) • United States 28 Oct

Attached are some of our choices but dinner tonight There are additionally desserts and appetizers — this is just the page for the main entrees In going to have the pasta carbonara. What would you choose from this menu? What...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I’m not really feeling the love from that menu. What I cooked wasn’t any better.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 28 Oct

I sat on a bench in town in today’s late forenoon, a cold, dry forenoon, with papers blowing around my feet and people passing in all their busyness, wrapped up in scarves, collars up round their ears. My wife arrived but...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (6162) • United Kingdom 28 Oct

Do you remember when you were a kid and when it was your Birthday someone would say "Happy Birthday to you, squashed tomatoes and stew " and then would burst into hysterical laughter as they thought it was the funniest thing ever...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Happy birthday to you, you were born in a zoo, with the monkeys and the tigers, happy birthday to you. That’s what we sang at primary school.

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Amber @AmbiePam (105335) • United States 28 Oct

Now, this is the first I have heard of this scam. About a week ago, I answer a call, and the woman (with a Hispanic accent) informs me she is from ICE and is going to need me to do this and that. I just said yeah right, and hung...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Some sick wee pervert is still trying to get me to change my life insurance. Singing my answer hasn't dissuaded him.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 27 Oct

My corner of Ireland lies smart with frost this morning, all ready for either war or a picnic. The brash, noisy sun calls forest and fields to attention under the crisp refulgent sky in which we are all suspended. The river...

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Fiacre Banks @Dianescorpio You may use it if you wish. Use it three times within the next month and will belong to you forever.

28 Oct

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14569) • Ireland 27 Oct

My corner of Ireland lies smart with frost this morning, all ready for either war or a picnic. The brash, noisy sun calls forest and fields to attention under the crisp refulgent sky in which we are all suspended. The river...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Oh if only I could understand what I wrote.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (50) • United States 27 Oct

I’m in the Caribbean Hurricane Melissa is in the Caribbean An earthquake just hit the Caribbean Coincidence or am I causing trouble wherever I go? We’re safe here in the ship. We’re delayed getting to Aruba tomorrow because...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville At least Jamaica is not on your itinerary.

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