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A Canadian in Ireland

Doesn't have the ring of "An American in Paris" (or even "An American at Opera") but what can you do?

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Half 4 in the morning...

And here I am setting up a blog. I must be nuts, or insomniac, or something.

Not sure what else I should say, I want to try and set the tone. Well, don't expect anything profound. Not on purpose anyway.

Look. I'll go off, get some sleep, have a think, and see what else I come up with.

TTYL


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Music to Kill Zombies to

Watching TV the other night something caught my... ear :confused: I wasn't interested in the ad, but the music that was used in it.

A bit of searching (isn't is amazing what you can find using the internet? :wink: ) and I managed to track down a decent bit of blues. I think my blog is overdue for some more.



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And, if you're interested, here's the ad.



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If you weren't already feeling old

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Yesterday I told you about Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday. And I gave you a link to Google's UK home page.

In the comments folks seemed surprised that it had been 20 years since their first appearance. I was too to be honest. :smile:

Well, Google now has another holiday logo up and this time it's Sesame Street's 40th anniversary :faint:



So yeah, I'm feeling kinda old.

Anyway, here's a classic moment I remember from (what I'm beginning to realise is a distant) childhood.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptbp0pmcg3U

Another one, after my time, but I recall it being on the news when Joe Raposo's death was announced.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpTCKOzJjA

And finally, just because it was in the results when I searched for "Sesame Street Google"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdRkdvKy5WI

Happy Birthday Sesame Street :hat: You may be 40, but you've never gotten old.

Cracking

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that today is Wallace And Gromit's 20th birthday.

Aardman Animations is celebrating, naturally.

But Google also decided to mark the event with one of their Holiday logos.

If you missed it, I think it's only on the UK site and I'm posting this kinda late, you can see it here.

Now the obvious thing would be to stick a YouTube video in here, but it seems that (for reasons of copyright I presume) I can only give you a link.

So go have a look at Cracking Contraptions - The Tellyscope.

While you're there watch the rest, it's worth it. :smile:

Somebody ring Noah

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We might have a job for him.

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Hail the Conkerers

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Hello,

Once again I feel I have to apologise for not being around as much as I would like. As usual college is keeping me busy. But it's reading week and a long weekend to boot so I have a little (too little really :whistle: ) time.

And what does a Canadian in Ireland do when he has some time off and it's the October Bank Holiday?

He goes to the Conker Festival of course. :wink:

Held in Freshford

The chestnuts for the competition are provided by 52 Horse Chestnut trees that surround the village green, which produce 30,000 conkers.


Here's some of them.

I'm sure you're wondering what exactly conkers are at this point. Luckily, but not surprisingly, Wikipedia has an article.

A couple of competitors



Aside from the championship there were other games


And crafts


These lads

started a mini-company selling slate crafts as part of their transition year.

The Kilkenny Flower Club were exhibiting in St. Lachtain's Church

which is famous for its 12th century carved sandstone entry.

A good day out, aside from the weather. Tomorrow? Back to the grind.

Another Canadian in Ireland

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I spotted this van last weekend on the High Street in Kilkenny, though it was only last night I found my Bluetooth dongle so I could download the photos off my phone.





Now,Timmy's has been in Ireland for a while. There's even a Spar in Kilkenny that has one of those kiosks.

But I'm hoping this might mean there's going to be an actual store. :coffee:

To Arthur

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It' Arthur's Day

Originally posted by wikipedia:

Guinness drinkers are expected to raise a glass to the memory of Arthur Guinness





So, any plans for 1759? :cheers:

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009

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Avast! Belay yer normal jabberin' and prepare to talk like a pirate.

And before you go sayin'

but I'm just a landlocked lubber

so was I, that's no excuse.



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Finally

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We have broadband!

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And there was much rejoicing

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The move finally got finished late last night. I can't believe we actually got it done, every time I thought it was finished there always seemed to be something else to go in the van.

The new house looks like our stuff was air dropped in. God knows how long before we get everything put away. And college is starting on Monday :faint:

Anyway, here's a few shots of the new house.

The front


The back


The yard

I did say it was a farm house. :wink:

Moving on

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Hey it's me :smile: hi

I know I haven't been around the OC much (work has me pretty busy, but that's another post)

I see that lots of people have moved, are moving, or may be moving sometime in the future. Well, you can add two more to the list. My brother and his wife are currently moving from Vancouver to Saskatchewan. And Mam and I will be moving at the end of the month.

We're going nowhere near as far, just the other end of the valley on the far side of the village. It's a nice farmhouse and I think we'll be quite happy there, but it's the move itself that has me concerned. I'm only going to have this weekend and the next and I'm not sure if it's enough time. :worried: Plus I'll have to get ready for the start of college straight after.

Oh, it will all work out in the end. It always does. :wink: But for now I just need a bit of time with my neuroses.

And I may disappear again until we get settled. :whistle:

Photos of a Spanish holiday

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Mine by coincidence.

Now that I was able to retrieve them from the dead laptop and I'm in Kilkenny blatantly stealing my aunts broadband I finally managed to upload some of the photos I took in Spain.



























More in the album and more will be uploaded when I have the time.

A long and quite intricate series of profanities

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You would have been impressed if you're into that sort of thing...

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Quick Update from Spain

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Hola! :D

Just a quick post (now that I have mostly figured out these Spanish keyboards :faint: ) to let you know that enjoying myself here in Nerja The sun is "splitting the stones" but there´s a nice breeze off the Med and plenty of cold cervesa :cheers: We even managed to figure out how to get an ice coffee after a few failed experiments. :yuck:

We´ve been taking it easy for the most part, though yesterday we did a little road trip to see the Alhambra. Amazing place, I took lots of photos which will be coming.

Only a couple of days left here, which is nowhere near long enough, but I´ll make the best of it.

:spock:

Fiesta time is coming

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Holidaying in Spain next week with the family. :yes: :hat:

Lots to do to get ready, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get on-line while I'm away, but here's something I've been playing to get me in the mood.



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2009 - A Year for Anniversaries

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Everywhere I look there seems to be one anniversary or another going on.

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A step in the right direction

only 9,999 to go.

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Ennui

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or acedia,
or even weltschmerz, if you prefer.

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Anti-Earworm

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Have you ever heard the term earworm? That's what you call a song that gets stuck in your head.

But what about a song that that you listened to :left: perhaps a bit obsessively :right: but then completely forgot?

I was listening to the radio the other day and out of the blue they played this.



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NOW I've got an earworm. Homer: Doh!
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