Charity photography exhibit in Mallow
Via Donncha - Mallow Camera Club will be exhibiting a number of photos in Mallow Town Library for three weeks starting yesterday.
One of the Club’s members, Sean Riordan, is heading out to South Africa shortly as part of a group from the Niall Mellon Township Trust helping to build homes for the poor in that country. All the photos on exhibit will be for sale with all profits going to help fund Sean’s trip and the good work he’ll do in November.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, September 7, 2007
Elevenses
From the garden.
Yummmm.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Review of McCarthy's Maize Maze
[McCarthy's Maize Maze](http://tinyurl.com/34s9x2), Rathclaren, Kilbrittain, Co Cork, Ireland
_<span class="summary">A wonderful way to spend a few hours with the kids when the weather is good. Enjoyable for young and old, local or tourist.</span>_
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Recently Anthony Creswell of Ummera mentioned a maze down near Kilbrittain in the comments of my blog. We had some visitors down from Dublin over the weekend and decided to give it a go on Saturday.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, September 2, 2007
How to feel just a bit stupid
I’m very technical, I can figure most things out given sufficient time, but sometimes I just don’t get it. Take for example my recent purchase of a Nokia N770 Internet Tablet.
It is a fabulous piece of kit at an incredible knock-down price of €107 plus VAT and P&P. I believe it was over €400 when it was released. It’s basically a little hand-held computer with a touch screen that works over Wifi or your mobile connection (via bluetooth).
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 25, 2007
Our Peach Harvest
Here it is:
Thrilled that it actually tasted ok, sadly not very juicy and a bit tart but given the summer we’re having, not a bad effort.
Next year we hope to get it up to two.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Irish Yokels Go London
In the next few months we’re coming up on the 10th wedding anniversary.
People gave us a week when we first started going out. Our eyes met across a power turbine in the Engineering building in Belfield. I fell for her shaggy perm, she fell for my wooly jumper and combats.
We’ve talked lots about what to do for our few days away (enabled by my fab parents). Paris maybe where last time we couldn’t fine Sacre Cour in the dark.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, August 19, 2007
Brand and Quality
Clonakilty Black Pudding is rightly famous and many people were saddened by the passing of Edward Twomey who made it into a formidable brand. Over the years they have diversified a bit and I see their sausages almost everywhere. We’ve tended to buy them as our “standard” saturday sausage when supermerket buying (going more with Caherbeg or Gubbeen for a treat).
This morning I spotted an extra sticker on the pack and initially had to giggle “This product does not contain Colour Red 2g (E128)……It contains Colour (Carmine E120)”.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, August 19, 2007
Oh and votes please
For the new blog theme. Like or no like? Like but would prefer a Cork specific image in the header? Don’t like cos it looks like mud?
And while I’m here, we launched blognation Ireland on Monday. It is part of a fast growing global tech news network called blognation and it covers Web 2.0 and Mobile in Ireland. So if you are a techie or in a start-up and you read this blog but not Argolon (you nutter), check out the new site.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Worst growing season EVAH!
My “stick it in the ground and it’ll grow” school of gardening thought has failed miserably this year. The only things that have grown are non-essential herbs, apples, strawberries, sorrel and radishes. And I don’t even particularly like the latter two. Actually, I nearly forgot the one rhubarb plant which provided seven metric tonnes of sticks. Lots of yummy tarts for me (as the bishop….).
So I got thick the other day and ripped up almost everything.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Review of House MD
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - this is fabulous TV.
House MD is one of those TV series I should hate. It stars Hugh Laurie with a put-on American accent as Gregory House, head of diagnostics at a Princeton hospital.
It has exactly the same plot every week. Person comes in with confusing symptoms, starts heading towards death, team keeps trying to figure out what is wrong, use wrong treatment, make patient worse, finally just in the nick if time, they figure it out and patient is saved.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, July 31, 2007