Conor's Bandon Blog

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A treasure trove of proper Italian food at great prices <div> Review of <span class="type">Business</span>, <span class="item vcard"> </span><span class="fn org">The Boot's Specialities</span> <div class="street-address">Unit 21, City Link Park, Forge Hill, Kinsale Rd</div> <div class="locality">Cork</div> <div class="region"></div> <div class="postal-code"></div> <div class="country-name">Ireland</div> </div> <div> <div class="stars" title="5">  </div> </div> <div class="description"> I heard about this deli over three years ago and have been meaning to go since. The story was that they had great Italian food but at non-ripoff prices since they are also a wholesalers.

I decided to try out AllFreeCalls.ie this afternoon. I had to ring Casio Customer Support in the UK about my poxy unfixable watch and my guess was that it would a longish call. I rang the access number and a voice told me that I would be charged at local rates and to enter the number I wanted. I entered the UK number and got through to the queuing system in Casio immediately.

You lovely lovely people have got me into the voting round in four categories in The Irish Blog Awards! I’m blushing just thinking about it. Thank you. Now the number of votes really counts in this round so head on over to The Voting Page and give me your first preference vote in the following categories: Best Blog Post Best Personal Blog Best Technology Blog/Blogger (I think this is my Argolon Blog mixed with LouderVoice) Best Business Blog (my Argolon blog) Thanks again you gorgeous, thoughtful, deeply intelligent blog angels.