The Swarm
What in the name of god is this yoke?
And no, it isn’t a wasp, just look at the size of it compared to the ivy leaves.
[tags]Killer Bee, Flying Killer Insects[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, August 14, 2006
Forde's somehow manages to get worse
Forde’s Food style/ethnicity: Modern Irish
Map
Price: 35 - 45 (Euro)
**Location**: <p>Crescent Quay Wexford, Co Wexford
Ireland Food rating: 2 out of 5 Decor rating: 3 out of 5 Service rating: 0 out of 5 I completely slated Forde’s last year after the utterly mediocre overpriced meal we had there. It was on my permanent blacklist until today. My parents stepped once more into the breech and babysat the recovering nutters so that myself and Catherine could go out for a bite.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 12, 2006
Heavens Above stuck in Limbo
Heavens Above Food style/ethnicity: Modern Irish
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Price: 35 - 45 (Euro)
Location: 112 South Main Street, Wexford, Co Wexford, Ireland
Food rating: 2 out of 5
UPDATE 2007/11/08: A comment below indicates that the restaurant is now under entirely new management etc, so please consider this review out of date.
My crazy parents decided to babysit all their grandchildren and sent the extended family out for a meal on the August Bank holiday Saturday.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 12, 2006
Rosslare in August
Girl cousins getting along like a house on fire:
Samantha’s fabulous birds of prey. You don’t mess with these boyos:
[tags]Rosslare, Falcon, Falconry, Birds of Prey[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 12, 2006
Fab Fota Photos
Catherine took the darlings to Fota Wildlife Park two weeks ago. They loved every minute. Highly recommended for a day out.
You’d think this was the Serengeti:
The children at play:
Sibéal finds more “cows”:
[tags]Fota, Fota Wildlife Park[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 12, 2006
Yoplait has a customer for life
We got a call from Customer support in Yoplait last Friday week asking if we were in to take a delivery and to apologise for the mis-labelled yoghurt. Shortly afterwards a courier arrived with two boxes full of these:
and these
Osc was blown away, he could not believe that he got all this stuff for, as he put it, “some words on a bit of paper”. He wanted to keep everything in his room so his siblings would get none of it but we pointed out that he needed a fridge for that.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, August 12, 2006
My Poxy Children
Is is possible to get psychosomatic Chicken Pox? I think I may have it, I’ve been scratching for days.
Shibs got the pox two weeks ago and right on schedule the three boys got it yesterday. The baby is crucified with spots on his eyelids, lips and all over his head. Ois has a bad patch on his foot but is ok, Osc was flattened. I hope my mother was right about me having it as a kid.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Brigadier N. F. Marwood-Git (retired)
I think this is the first time in 16 years of using the internet that I have been presented with a list like this:
[tags]Monty Python, Hotels, UK, Lord[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 30, 2006
Pierce Brosnan can act!
The Matador IMDB
Year: 2006
Length: 97 minutes
Media: DVD
Studio: Weinstein Company
**Rating from **: R (Restricted)
UPC for dvd: 796019791595
ID in Amazon.com: B000EQ5UIC
Rating: 4 out of 5
I saw “The Matador” on a plane recently and raved about it. Catherine got it out on DVD last night and it still works on a second viewing. It is the story of a hitman with problems played by Pierce Brosnan, who befriends an average joe played by Greg Kinnear.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 30, 2006
GG's Turkish Barber in Clonakilty
We missed another Farmer’s Market as myself and Osc spent longer in Clon that we expected. The place was mobbed, jammed with cars on the way to/from holidays and flooded just to make everyone’s lives harder. However, none of this interfered with our mission to get our hair cut.
Catherine had noticed a new Turkish Barber had opened up on the ring road in Clon and thought I should check it out.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 30, 2006