Conor's Bandon Blog

Running, Food and Local stuff from a blow-in

Numb-nut did his permalinks wrong

None of my recent posts were appearing on Planet of the Blogs and I assumed they were doing something wrong. So I finally mailed them today and they were able to suss that my RSS feeds were all buggered. Why? Because I cannot read simple bloody instructions. I wanted to change from the normal Wordpress link style for posts (e.g. http://conoroneill.com/?p=178) to a more meaningful permalink structure (http://conoroneill.com/2005/11/17/pork-from-china/). What did I do?

Pork from China?

I set up Google Analytics and AdSense on this web-site for no real reason other than messin. Watching the ads that appear could become a full-time hobby. Most of them are as expected - “Holidays in Donegal or Galway”. I’ve had a few “buy sausages and herbs from us”. But one made me do a click-thru on my own site: “Buy Pork”. Hmm interesting. Then I read the detail of the site a little closer, “Buy Pork from China”!

For those of you who have been living in the tora-bora mountains for the past two years

And have never heard of Langerland, get yerself over to www.langerland.com and watch their latest cartoon. A snot-ejecting moment when Sean Óg’s All-Ireland speech started with “Bhí mé ag dul go dtí an siopa chun rudaí a cheannach” . . . “Agus Cheannaigh mé uachtar reoite!!!!!” These guys should be as famous as Atom Films. Keep it up. [tags]langerland, cartoon, atomfilm[/tags]

Doggles - Goggles for Doggies

I’m not making this up. Courtesy of my big sis Fiona: Everything you ever needed to know about canine eyewear.

Heists for Jesus

I shouldn’t laugh, I really shouldn’t, but I’m pretty sure the only Baptist church in Bandon is the one just near our house. Baptist pastor charged over bank robbery If only we’d gone to his coffee morning, this could all have been avoided. The fact that the BOI Bank Manager lives beside the Baptist Church too sends this story into the realms of the completely bizarre. UPDATE 15/11/2005: They gave the poor sod a suspended sentence.

Useful Nut warnings

For those suffering from both nut allergies and an IQ of 50.

Important news for Veggies, Vegans and pulse lovers everywhere

Courtesy of the Dave Barry Blog Lo-Fart beans developed Great news considering the diet I’m on right now.

Is that a sausage in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Last Saturday, the world was my oyster. Wife n kids were in Cavan, house to myself, I could do anything I liked. Except I’m off booze so getting blotto was out of the question, I’m on a diet so a huge steak n chips was off the menu and I hate sport so a day of Premiership football would be torture. But I was still totally buzzed about making sausages after the Hugh Fearnley-Wearnley-Guernley Course in Ballymaloe.

Wexford: Farm Shops and Citroën SM's

We spent the halloween weekend down in Rosslare. I know it is now a mini-Dublin but it’s a perfect spot for all of the extended family to meet up. There is one shop I want to mention simply because they deserve to be much better known. “Kate’s Farm Shop” is just off the Duncannon Roundabout towards Duncannon. I found it accidentally during the summer when I went for a “lets get the kids to sleep for a hour” drive.

Killarney, Land of the Celtic Tiger's Aran Sweater

After Caroline’s wedding, we hung on for another day in Killarney to get a break from our four darlings. I think maybe I had passed through once before but could remember nothing of the place so I had no expectations. OK, I did assume we would find a certain level of paddywhackery but jesus, it turned out to be Brigadoon transplanted. I have never ever seen so many shops selling such tat in all my life.