Fiacre Banks (@xFiacre) on myLot

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 7h

To be honest, I haven't seen many documentaries. At the gym this week, though, there's been this show called something like "30/30" or something from ESPN, it's from a long time ago and it's been highlighting past athletes and...

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Fiacre Banks @LooeyVille Makes you wonder what the writers based this on!

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Amber @AmbiePam (115270) • United States 15h

I know, I know. It’s a weird post. But when I asked in a previous discussion what you are picky about, @Deepizzaguy responded that he’s picky about his mashed potatoes. That rang a childhood bell, and I thought about when my...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I rarely eat potatoes. I grow them, but only to give to my sons.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 7h

To be honest, I haven't seen many documentaries. At the gym this week, though, there's been this show called something like "30/30" or something from ESPN, it's from a long time ago and it's been highlighting past athletes and...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I’m a sucker for nature documentaries - plants or animals. Everyone keeps their clothes on in such programmes which is usually helpful. I’ve just watched the episode of The Diplomat where the British Prime Minister does the dance with no pants with...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 7h

As I prepare to toddle (or trot) off to Donegal on Friday, I have just received a message from the owner of the cottage regarding gaining access when we arrive. The key will be in the front door. Isn’t that nice and...

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Amber @AmbiePam (115270) • United States 8h

I sleep with a dentist made mouth guard because I grind my teeth so badly I will chip them without one. For the last three days I’ve slept without it because I can’t find it. I had briefly taken it out, and was planning to go back...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam Those first 5 words of yours made me do a double take but then I read further and calmed down. I’ve recently lost a crown. I know where it is, but I’m managing fine without it so I’m in no hurry to pay a dentist to stick it back in again.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 16h

I’m off on the trot again. As I write that I’m suddenly aware that I may be giving my readers a false impression, “on the trot” being a euphemism for diarrhoea, and I have no such affliction, currently, and intend keeping it that...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam I know, much easier to call it the trots. And who can ever remember how to correctly spell haemorrhoids? Piles will do.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 19h

This is a hard question to answer. I want to say people read more books 50 years ago but then there's more access to e-Books and e-Readers for people to get books in this age than there were then. But times were simpler then and...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Well you never know what people are looking at on their phones - books or porn? I certainly don’t think better books are being read widely, and most books, it seems to me, would have been better not being written. A good book well written is a joy...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 16h

I’m off on the trot again. As I write that I’m suddenly aware that I may be giving my readers a false impression, “on the trot” being a euphemism for diarrhoea, and I have no such affliction, currently, and intend keeping it that...

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 17 Mar

I have given my opinion before about the number of divas in the NBA and thugs in the NFL. I don't understand how an athlete makes such an absurd amount of money. Where are our priorities as a country? We resent paying for...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Actors, sports people pop stars etc such be on minimum wage. Garbage disposal people however, are worth their weight in gold.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 17 Mar

I don't hate it. But I'm seldom in the mood for it. It reminds me of elevator music or doctors' office music. It's really not my particular cup of tea. Do you enjoy listening to classical music? Any favorite composers or...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville Italian opera is my thing.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 17 Mar

Okay, so I am going back over 50 years now, but when I was at school we used to have free milk every day. It was in little glass bottles and a silver foil lid, that we had to poke the straw through. I loved it. It was ice cold...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne I remember it well and with fondness. When I eventually became minister of a Church when I was about 32, on the first Sunday I stood up in the pulpit and right in front of me was my P1 teacher and I could see her supervising the milk.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 16 Mar

When I hear the nonsense bandied about concerning Ireland at this time of year I despair. I also wonder about the veracity of the information that reaches me regarding other countries: surely it’s not just Ireland that suffers...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev @looeyville Happy to oblige ma’am.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 17 Mar

Oh joy. I found a restaurant today where everything was to my taste and exceeded my expectations. Even using the bathroom was a treat and I’m not even a woman. The place is in the city of Chester and even though it is pricey I’d...

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

So, the new neighbours across the road arrived just before 10pm…..there were three cars …one parked on the drive, the other two cars in the street. They were here til 11pm and when they left there was a lot of banging of car...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne mine are generally quiet but can’t manage closing car doors very well.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (14388) • Ireland 16 Mar

When I hear the nonsense bandied about concerning Ireland at this time of year I despair. I also wonder about the veracity of the information that reaches me regarding other countries: surely it’s not just Ireland that suffers...

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (126688) • United States 16 Mar

Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day. I am 0% Irish so I had never had the traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner until I ate it at a former boyfriend's house. I loved it! One year I decided I was going to make it at the house and my...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Corned beef and cabbage? Not sure what’s so Irish about that. Probably put about by the corned beef people to drum up trade.

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Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (8996) • United Kingdom 15 Mar

We visited the farm shop yesturday, and it got me thinking about veggies…. My favourite is sprouts …..it’s not a popular choice I know, but it’s my number one. I like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, beetroot, swede and most others...

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Fiacre Banks @traceyjayne Cauliflower for me, roasted with bay leaves to mitigate the whiff then served up in a blue cheese white sauce.

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NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (126688) • United States 15 Mar

Typical Trump. He overstated what the US had accomplished in Iran and said he didn't need places like the UK to offer to help after we had already won the war. Then Iran shut down the Straight of Hormuz which is where 20% of the...

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Fiacre Banks @njchicaa Oh I thought he’d already won the war. I must try to keep up.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 15 Mar

Even though I've heard of this word before, I didn't actually know what it meant. But it came on in an online Word Game I was playing, so I searched it on Google and now it makes perfect sense. It's a made-up word that becomes a...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I only lnow it in its French form - a coatrack.

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (48) • United States 15 Mar

It seems like I used to know this word, but I was reading an article in my online newsfeed today that used it and I had to look it up to remember what it meant. ESCHEW: to deliberately avoid using; abstain from: The context of...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I use it often. I do a lot of eschewing.

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