Wigs on the green

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So there tossing them off after all those years. Irish Judges wont be wearing those distinctive looking wigs anymore  that thankfully I have never had to see up close .
There finally letting their hair down and relaxing a little. But is  all this a good thing ? They were distinctive looking and give the Judge an air of authority. I just hope that all this dress down Friday business doesnt mean that some of these Judges dont turn up in baseball caps t shirt and covered in bling and start handing out sentences.

BestFriends

Theres a new phenomena sweeping our nation these days. parents referring to their sons or daughters as their best friends,"oh ya " they say "we go everywhere together" We're 'not really like daughter and mother " they claim. really I say best Friends  ,well who pays then when ye go every where together, who provides the transport?Is it a case that at a restaurant when the bill is produced you're daughter who's thirteen whips out her credit card and absolutely insists on paying for everything, leaves a large tip and pays for the taxi on the way home as well.

The Drifters

I liked this song so much I became a roofer myslef.

Irish presidential race

Now lets hope it never get to that stage that Dublin does disappear and he can get on with the usual presidential duties

Irish presidential election

There is only one person that should be made president of Ireland and thats Senator Norris.  He is the only person for the Job. Apart from his fine rhetoric skills ,genial disposition and flamboyant flair the senator is the only person I know who has actually read the James Joyce Novel Ulysses and by all accounts actually understands it.
This Urban Novel is not an easy read but the Senator has become a world authority on it,many seek his counsel and then pretend they have read it . The significance of all this lies in a quote by James Joyce to Frank Budgen in 1918,Budgen being the author of "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses",what he said was "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book"
Now For Dublin to disappear is not such an outlandish possibility when you consider all the natural disasters happening all over the world .
No we shouldnt be suprised to wake up some morning to find Dublin gone and a Field in its place.
Who are we going to call on to rebuild our city? ,we cant really rely on  the Builders or property developers in the light of how we all finished up after them.
No this time we are going to do things different ,we need the services of President Norris to rebuild our city . Now admittely things have changed since Ulysses was written ,like they wasnt any of those fast food joints around  and no Coppers face Jacks  then,but we can live without those anyway ya we would actually live longer without them literally. Dublin could be rebuilt to all it Georgian splendor with the help of our president
NO JOB TOO BIG NO JOB TOO SMALL

The scourge of Telemarketers

They ring you at ackward hours of the day trying to sell you stuff you dont need or want  or worse the other sort of cold callers who want to gain access to you pc and empty youre bank account of all its contents.
I was in a good mood this evening when a women rang me telling me I had a problem with my pc and she was calling to help.I told her I will be speaking in English for the first minute then switching to spanish for the second minute afterwhich I will be moving to a two minute stint of Chinese and rounding the whole lot off with a bit of mongolian ,I will then be going into a big oven for a further 3 mins comming out when I have gone golden brown,Dessert will be fresh Indonesian sprinkled with some pidgeon English.She hung up just before dessert I think and I havent had any calls since,but its early days yet.

Old Shoes

I had being looking at my almost three year old shoes  latley knowing the end was near for these two. I couldnt wear them when it was wet and the stitching had come apart in a couple of different places.It was my second pair of these particular type of shoes made from the finest Yak hide,ya I decided to give the cows a break for a while and go Yak.Shoes made from Yak hide are very popular in Tibet apparently,its all the go there.I got these pair on Christmas week 2008 and after a few home repairs I  couldnt deny it any longer these shoes had their day.I wanted to give them a decent and dignified end but where ?and how.I left the shoes quitely under the bed while I came up with a plan. I had taken the shoes out on a few dry days over the past few months but it only prolonged the agony the support was now going a I might as well have being wearing no shoes at all for all the protection I was getting.I put them quitely away again a few days ago,but imagine my horror when I came home to discover the two shoes in the bin,feet first in the air.They had being dumped by a member of the household.I looked on in horror and disbelief.This time I knew It was for the best.I tucked them in completely closed the lid and said goodbye.