Conor's Bandon Blog

Running, Food and Local stuff from a blow-in

Twazr or Gritter?

James rises to the challenge:

I still think it is stoopid but

I’ve gone and got a Twitter account anyway. What is Twitter you may ask? Well it is a web-site where you say what you are doing right now. You can do it via web, SMS or IM. Cos we all have such interesting lives and all our friends need to know exactly what we are doing at every moment in time. “finger up right nostril” “finger up left nostril” “bogey rolling” “bogey flicking”.

Now that I've calmed down

What a great line-up for the final! Well done to everyone who got through, there is some real quality in there. A ton of my fave Irish blogs are listed. Looking forward to the night of the awards already. Will the concierge mind the baby tho?

Struck dumb

Damien just posted the short-list for the Irish Blog Awards. I got through in all four categories in which I was long-listed. I think I need to lie down. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now - I have the smartest, sexiest, wittiest, funniest, bestest readers on the planet. Thank you all for responding so well to my daily emails begging you to vote for me. They’ll stop now.

4 minutes left - Do it DO IT

You’ll hate yourself in the morning if you don’t. awards.ie/vote Just to whet your appetite, you can expect more of this sort of thing in 2007 from The Bandonites/Bandonians/OldChaplers. (Via A Hamburger Today)

Not the way to lose your baby teeth

Poor Oisín is terribly unlucky with his front teeth. When he was 2-ish he fell off a changing table and impacted one of his front teeth up into the bone and split the lip and gum. Nothing could be done except let it heal. That tooth was much shorter than the other one until yesterday. Then yesterday evening, he fell off a stool and did a repeat performance, this time knocking out his other tooth and making a mush of his upper lip again.

I'm not making this up

Ivan Pope has voted for me in the Irish Blog Awards. Ivan runs a great tech company in the UK called, wait for it……Snipperoo. I knew there was a reason I put his widget in the sidebar of this blog rather than my business one! In any case, 21 hours to go in the voting. Check out my nominations to the right there, check out all the others over at Jason Roe’s blog, and if you think I’m worth it, gis a vote.

Cafe Paradiso Take Two

Catherine, ReviewBlogger extraordinaire, has posted her review of our meal in Cafe Paradiso last Saturday. It was bloody lovely.

I wonder how long I'll last?

So far so good, I’m able to guess most of them.

Gourmet Burger gone already! Bugger.

Ah crap. JD posted a comment here earlier letting me know that he went to Gourmet Burger in Portlaoise the other day and they have already closed down to concentrate on their Dublin business. I’m so pissed off about this. I don’t think it is lack of market in this case, but lack of marketing. How many thousand cars go up and down the N7 and N8 every day? I never once saw an ad for them.