A post NOT about sausages

Spouse and I toddled off to do a bus tour of the Boyne Valley yesterday, culminating in a 3-hour stop at Newgrange. I’ve added as many pics as would fit on my little memory card to my Flickr page, so you can see those by clicking on the Flickr badge to the right. [...]

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T’s Korner Day 3

Newgrange is an ancient astrological/burial/religious sight that is not only the longest standing building in all of Europe it is also older than the pyramids and Dick Clark. M and I saw it today and I must say, “Wow.” This thing was crafted with stones from as far as 7o kilometers away [...]

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T’s Korner day 2

The interesting thing about White Pudding is that it tastes just like Black Pudding but looks completely different in color and has no blood in it. The more interesting thing about White Pudding is that until it was in my stomach I felt sick! I could blame this on my sensitive digestive system which [...]

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T’s Korner

While traveling to Louisville from South Bend, M and I must cross the Big Blue River somewhere south of Indy. While this river is neither big nor blue, it is a river. The same could be said about Ireland’s Black Pudding. Did you know it was a blood-based sausage? While not [...]

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The spouse has landed

In spite of my waking up an hour later than planned (forgot to set my alarm clock ahead one hour on Sunday), and the T getting bamboozled enough at the airport to forget his PIN for the ATM, then trying enough wrong combinations for the machine to eat his card, and having to borrow some [...]

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Snot!

That’s right folks, snot! I have been stricken with quite the cold. I stayed home yesterday from the archives and felt sort of like I was going to die, but then around 4:30 was able to (had no choice but to) drag my butt down to the pharmacy and get some Sudafed. [...]

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Aunt Millie where are you?

At home we have the Aunt Millie’s Bakery breads, made in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Among the Aunt Millie breads is a line called “Fiber for Life.” Since my wholesale conversion a few years ago to a “more healthy, less crap” eating lifestyle, I’ve been hooked on Aunt Millie’s super-hi-fiber breads. We’re talking [...]

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I know 34 degrees really isn’t all that cold

But the wind. My God, the wind. Aaaaand….the fact that I don’t have a hat. “But you’re in the land of fine knitted goods!” you say, “Surely you could stop into any shop and buy yourself one!” Yes, well, I keep convincing myself that it’s just a few more minutes and [...]

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Bank holiday

This is where a couple times a year, everything shuts down for no reason I can tell except you have to have national holidays where everything shuts down once in a while. Except for Paddy Power, which of course stays open because I’m sure there’s something going on somewhere that people need to bet [...]

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Paddy, schmaddy

We were a little late in leaving this morning, so by the time we got on the Luas it had stopped running past Smithfield, which put us two or three stops away from where we normally would’ve gotten off. And it was crowded–totally full at the beginning of the line in Tallaght, in fact, [...]

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