I found a coin in a jar the other day it was a penny from the time of King George 1803.I never heard of him. I was showing 2 French guys what we were passing when I said "These houses are Georgian" and it hit me. Mountjoy square and all the other grand houses on Fitzwilliam Sq. and Merrion Square were built at the height of Irish misery when people were being sold into slavery and the Irish potato famine was just around the corner.
Onwards and upwards.
The tourists are back in their droves. I hope that the hotels pull back on their prices or they will kill it off. Hong Kong was THE tourist destination in the 60s and the hotels and restaurants started putting prices up and up. Guess what people go elsewhere now.
I saw a lady the other day and I spoke with her. It turned out that she was coming back through O'Connell St. the other day and was robbed, cash, phone and bank cards, She could not draw cash from the cash point either. I met her in Coolock and she told me that she was waiting for a friend to give her a loan. She worked in Tallagh hospital and she also had a hotel job.
She was still there when I came out from Lidl so I did what I had to do. I gave her €20."No No No I can't take it" What can you do? Sometimes God asks you to do the right thing. I was turning away when she landed a sweet kiss on my cheek, wow! beautiful perfume.
Loosing your bank card is such a pain in the ass. I lost my PTSB card and I tried to ring up to get a replacement, no luck. I went into the Omni centre and she took my driving licence, 2 weeks later no sign of the replacement. So I went into the Raheny branch. No there is not another card on order and the missing card has not been blocked. New card in 4 days DV.
Perhaps I should keep a notebook, time, date location and name.
It is really hard to get good help.
We had a big birthday and my wife wanted all her family to come. One won't eat this, the other will not eat that and so on. Cleaning the house from top to bottom. "That toilet brush has to be replaced" Shit who looks at the toilet brush? But it went.
Next time everyone is to bring packed lunches!
A good joke about toilet brushes.
I worked in a hardware store and the motto behind the counter was up sell all the time.
A man looking for shot gun cartridges would be sold 3 types of shot and targets.
A woman came in for toilet paper and I suggested that she buy a toilet brush as well, to tidy it up afterwards.
She was in the next say in a rage waving the brush over her head.
"This brush is far too severe, we are going to stick with the toilet paper"
Facebook or Meta was closed up for the last few days. Now comes the word of a massive fine
€1.2 Billion. I reckon that Mr Elon Musk must be as sick as a parrot
It makes you thing that car you once bought with the bad engine was not so bad after all.
Remember Letter from America? and Tales from the lazy acre? I suppose that they were blogs?