Boats! Yep, I saw some boats outlined, too.
There are displays you can pay to go through either walking or driving. There seem to be less than last year... so there may be an economic factor to that. I love them. One of my favorites has a long bower of lights... maybe twenty-five feet or longer... where you walk surrounded by twinkling lights. Gee, it's nice!
I had a blast l'lk, tis the season you know? DD inn.
Off to the Burren today or tomorrow. Business calls. Ten lbs of frozen lobster meat in a backpack on the bus....but I get a room and a free place to stay in Cork for making the effort. ;-)
So does a REAL pint of Guinness.
The DD.... why do you like it there? I'm curious.
In cork.... gotcha. Good business deal.
don't like the crew at the yardam, but, they were all there last night, it was to crowded at the yardarm for them.
my local fav is the barleyneck inn, but it's too far to beg for a ride to.
plus, i know the owners at the dd inn. helps a bit on the tab lol.
Aaaaahhhh, gotcha. The barley neck in - at Joes dinner? The bar with the big fireplace/mass of candles? Or does the barley neck have a bar on the other side?
you got it love.....big fireplace, candles, on the way back from the boat being offshore all day.....puuuuuuuuuurfect stop on the way home from a long day in a wheelbarrow.
i never wore a ribbon on the boat tho.....
a ribbon?
That there bar is now Joe's American Dinner, no?
I think it's just Joe's place...as I know it. I used to sell him and Cathy his wife all their fish in my better days.
Secret smoking room upstairs, cigar heaven, etc......
niiiiice, I wonder if my Dad know's about that smoking room.
Ribbons, lobsters and boats?
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832 - 1898)
THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE
'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail.
'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle - will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
'You can really have no notion how delightful it will be,
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!'
But the snail replied 'To far, too far!' and gave a look askance -
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.
'That matters it how far we go?' his scaly friend replied.
'There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
The further off from England the nearer is to France -
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
Lewis Carroll was a grand digressor!
Practice for my Bahston trip!
i said it was a SECRET l'lk...........
got it, gut it, good........
no more secrets for you. I'll take your dad tho, if he drives lol
Well, then, I won't tell a soul, your secret is safe with me and the rest of A2K, I'm sure. <grin>
I live near an Italian area where a couple of dozen households, all together, making a lighting display at Christmas - should be starting up this weekend - must go and check. It attracts people from everywhere - all very kitsch, but popular. The streets are closed off, there's police directing traffic; you can't park within cooee; Mr Whippy vans vie for the best spots; some of the local schools have cake stalls in the parks nearby on the water's edge. It's a huge community thing, and all funded by those families.
For me - it's MANGO CHUTNEY DAY!!!!! There's 28 mangoes in the living room, just waiting to be chutted!
Can I put in an order of mango chutney?
Margo Mango Chutney. Rogah's Lobstah Chowdah. Sounds like a market stall bein' set up.
I was visiting friends in Florida one year over New Year's. I got drunk at a party and jumped in the ocean. Ruined a very nice dress. But I did succeed in cooling off.
What's a Misrule feast?
I used to work in Rockefeller Center. I saw that giant Christmas tree day in and day out. Me and five zillion tourists. Got sick of the damned thing.
I have never owned nor have I ever hung up a Christmas light. Didn't even know they were called illuminaries. Thought they were just lights. Or are illuminaries something else? Lights in paper bags?
I finally haul my carcass to a digression thread, and what do I get? Confused as usual.
ahhhhhh a carcass for the pot! some fine soup stock for the market stall. Roberta's Bottled Bones and Bits. hmmmmmmmm
