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29
Jan

Hmm. Well, I’m off. Mantain speed and heading, Mr. Lightoller.

   Posted by: Fence   in Ramblings, Sport

Ooops, almost didn’t post today. That would have been a disaster considering my ambition is to post every day this week. I know, I could have remained silent on that and no one would have known about my near failure, or indeed my failure tomorrow, or whenever it comes, but then I wouldn’t have had any opening sentence for this post. And that would have been a real disaster. After without an opening sentence I wouldn’t have gotten very far in this whole post, would I?

Can’t have a second sentence without that first one.

Was at footie this evening. We’re playing twice a week now. Once indoors, once outside. When I say we… well, I’ve missed the past few Thurs due to “other commitments”, jayzis, you’d think I had a life or something interesting[1] like that.

Luckily enough we had a grand total of no injuries today. Which was nice as last week there was an incident involving a football being kicked and a football smashing into someone’s face. Not mine, which was good for me. But straight into the glasses of the person who was hit, which was not good for him.

I’ve also decided to upload a couple of batches of photos to flickr and have discovered that I haven’t stuck anything up there at all this year. My god! That’s shocking. I’m thinking that most will have to be private, what with the drinking and the actual peoples there, but sure if you don’t know me you wouldn’t be interested in pictures of me and my good friend Mr. Alcohol.

Also, and hugely importantly, the Six Nations kicks off this weekend[2] Are we thrilled with excitement[3] Me and de mudder are heading to Croke Park on Sat to watch Ireland kick Italy’s ass. And if we don’t win, convincingly, we’ll instead have a “wee chat” with Mr. O’Sullivan, so we will.

Title from Titanic, see the link there? Disaster movie, but this post is instead a fabulous avoidance of disaster!

Linknotes:
  1. I dont ↩
  2. self-link! ↩
  3. bonus points if you can identify this, We make excitement happen, only not you H, you should know ↩
Tags: 6nations2008, de mudder, drink, Eddie O'Sullivan, flickr, football, rugby, Six Nations

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27
Aug

Week 238

   Posted by: Fence   in Ramblings, Weekly memes

EDIT Forgot to mention that as part of my patent-pending taking-over-wwwland technique I have started blogging over at The Fear of God. Not a religious blog sillies, but a rugby one. You know, on account of Paul O’Connell and the documentary Reaching for Glory, set up by Gerry of UnLaoised

I know you didn’t think I’d leave you much longer without your dose of Unconscious Mutterings :)

  1. Uneven ::
  2. Wonder ::
  3. Spider ::
  4. Emma ::
  5. Swing ::
  6. Orbit ::
  7. Flirt ::
  8. Donation ::
  9. Veil ::
  10. Atmosphere ::

Tis Monday, so I’m back at work. What fun, neh? But I suppose it could be worse. I could have been working last week, so it is all good. Anyways, I hereby retract my statement accusing the highly sensitive individual of taking a break. She isn’t, it is simply a case of the voices in her head not talking to her, all clear? Good.

In other news, Carl’s RIP challenge kicks off soon. Officially on Sept 1st. I’m hoping to get involved. 4 books isn’t a huge amount, is it?

And for those of you wondering where the wedding was on, well, I bring you photos:

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The view from the Church
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The beach
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Inside the Church
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Flowers

And as I said in the comment section of my previous post there are a lot more on flickr, but you’ll have to be logged in and friended to see them.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Fear of God, flickr, Luna Nina, Paul O'Connell, rugby, wedding

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12
Jun

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

   Posted by: Fence   in Pointless

At the weekend I suddenly remembered that I had a scanner. And old photos, so of course I did what anyone would do, scanned them. Well, by them I mean some. Because it does take a while.

And then i uploaded them to flickr. Because Web2.0 is what rules the world now.

So if you have a flickr account, and are listed as a friend you can see photos of my trip to Greece in transition year, or me in my first holy communion dress.

If not, well you’ll have to content with pictures of dogs, Sandy1990 and kittens, and cats, and scenery and tourist spots.

Tags: flickr, photos

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20
Mar

Just hush!

   Posted by: Fence   in Sport

So, instead of rugby this blog will know turn its attention to… cricket! Nah, not really, though I have watched some of our winning ways. Who knew that failed[1] furrin[2] crickteers could play so well? Or, if I’m being honest, who really cared. Still, now that they are out there winning, and fans are singing olé olé olé[3] the rest of us will be happy to see them do well.

In case you all didn’t know, the Six Nations finished up on Saturday. We were playing first, on account of the BBC organising things. Bloody English! And the match was one of the most entertaining, plus we scored over 50 points. All good. You know, apart from that last minute try from Italy after we really should have put the ball out of play, but no point in moaning. As B#5 said, sure, no matter what we scored those french fuckers’d[4] probably go one better. But we had such high hopes [5] as it looked like Scotland might just do enough. But no, bloody crappy refs asking stoooopud questions when everyone and their dog could see that there was no grounding visible, therefore the benefit of the doubt must go to the defending team, and therefore you may NOT award the try should have been Mr. TMO’s call.

But, what can you do? Pray for payback come the Autumn, that’s what. So you’d better watch out then.

I would have loads and loads of photos of the terribly exciting and thrilling St. Patrick’s Day Parade from Sligo, only as B#3 was invest-igamating the new camera he hit the delete all button. I saved some, but not all. Mainly the attention grabbing parade consisted of bands. Marching pipe bands. In rain gear.

RainGear

Linknotes:
  1. too harsh? ↩
  2. some of them ↩
  3. why isn’t that pretentious, whereas Leinsters Allez Les Bleus is? ↩
  4. His words Anne, not mine ↩
  5. everyone who has seen Rocky Balboa, you can sing along, High Hopes, weve got… ↩
Tags: 6nations2007, B#3, B#5, flickr, France, Ireland, Ireland V Italy, Italy, rugby, Six Nations, St. Patrick's Day, TMO

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16
Mar

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

   Posted by: Fence   in Ramblings

ROG has let himself go a little

Yeah, so I’m a day early, but I won’t be here tomorrow. So instead we are going to pretend that tomorrow is today. Which of course means only one thing. Rugby!

Oh and some parades and stuff.

There are construction workers all over the shop, hard at work Prep- Man At Work putting up the fun fair. And the luminarium. And probably a lot of other stuff. Even one of the sex adult shops nearby has decorated for St. Patrick’s day. Which strikes me as slightly odd. I mean are leprechauns sexy? I’m shuddering having just typed that. And now thinking about that episode of The Simpsons, you know the one with the fortune teller who puts a curse on the family and Bart drowns in a bowl of cereal? And the leprechaun gets it on with the fortune teller, right there on the wedding alter. Sex and leprechauns, who’d've thought it was so commonly represented in modern pop culture.[1]

I’ve decided to take Tues off as well, so a lovely long weekend for me. I just couldn’t face the hassle of travelling back to Dublin on Bank Holiday Mon. I’m also thinking that a fair few students are going to show up on Monday, surprised that the college aint open. I’d make my usual “furriners” snort of amusement, only a couple of the Irish girls have mentioned coming in to study then. So instead I’ll just go with a more ethnically inclusive snort of “idjits”

In more disturbing news[2] it appears that there may be snow this weekend.

Snow is possible on high ground in parts of Ulster and Connacht. Still very cold on Tuesday, but not as windy or as shower

Dude! Cad faoi sin. I mean, I know it only says chance, and we all know that chance’d be a fine thing, but still. Snow, after St. Patrick’s day? What is the world coming to?

Also, is this not the coolest thing ever: OCLC’s Dewey Web Browser.
Okay, maybe if you aren’t a librarian it isn’t as cool. But look, you just stick in some book details, like Blink Gladwell and it shows you exactly where it gets the Dewey number from. Coola-boola. Course, if you put in something like Michael Collins then you’ll see why some people think the DDC needs to be looked at again, as after clicking on the history option, and then the European option you get to see that “British Isles” is listed, but not Ireland. Oooooh, contentious.

Linknotes:
  1. and god knows what this post is going to do to the referral stats ↩
  2. I have no idea what the more refers to, I mean, yes the leprechaun-sex stories were disturbing, but they werent news ↩
Tags: as gaeilge, flickr, Ronan O'Gara, rugby, St. Patrick's Day, weather

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20
Feb

Photo-graphia-whatnot

   Posted by: Fence   in Ramblings

Remember my last T13, where I listed stuff that I wanted. Well, there was a reason I didn’t mention a camera, as I had just gone and ordered one. A Fuji Finepix S5600 to be precise. And it arrived yesterday afternoon, but I didn’t get a chance to use it till today at lunch.

And can I just say, bloody birds move a lot don’t they?

Robin
Taking off

Tags: flickr, Fuji Finepix S5600, shopping

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11
Feb

Gutted

   Posted by: Fence   in Sport

Gutted! Revisited.

There is no denying that Croke Park is an impressive venue. I haven’t been there all that often. I don’t remember who was playing for my first visit, but I do remember being asked if anyone had asked us to carry anything into the stadium. It must have been a Sligo game as Dad took us, though I’m not too sure when Sligo would’ve made it to Croker before. My last visit there was for the International Rules, and really, the less said about that the better. ;) My ticket was for the Cusack Stand. Upper tier. So plenty of steps to be climbed, but you get a great view of the surroundings.

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We had a great rendition of Amhrán na bhFiann[1] and Ireland’s Call. I’m still not sure about Ireland’s Call[2] It sounded great on Sunday, but often it sounds shite, maybe it needs the numbers singing it, or maybe we just aren’t comfortable singing it yet. Whatever, it was great. And yes, the French thingy sounded grand too.[3]
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But the match itself didn’t really go to plan. France came out all guns blazing, and the ref had issues with his mic tugging as he ran, nothing like listening in to the ref’s mic is there? Still Ireland never panicked, and although errors were made, there were also some wonderful moments. Boss charging down a kick and the sudden hint of a try. Murphy’s wonderful interception to prevent a definite try for the wrong side. But at half time it was France in the lead. And a deserved lead. We were lucky two be only to points behind. And O’Gara’s kicking out of hand wasn’t great. Does he just miss Lansdowne?

Second half and it was almost a reversal, but we couldn’t get the scores, although I think we deserved them. I’m not going to moan about the lack of advantage played by Walsh when Murphy would have scored. Nor about Horan being tackled without the ball. Swings and roundabouts as they say.

Still we went in front, only a point, but still. Victory was within our grasp. And then that lineout, and maul. And a penalty. And we went four in front. With two minutes to go. But we had a problems with the the restarts all day, and before we knew what was what the French were over the line. And with no time left for us to do anything.

So that is it, our Grand Slam dreams over, and only a faint possibility of winning the championship. We gotta hope France slip up and that we win the rest of our games. But this should have been our year.

I’m a fan of Eddie O’Sullivan’s, but I think he messed up bringing Horgan in from the wing. I would have played Trimble in the centre and left Horgan in his usual position. He was just back from injury, and expecting him to slot in and play like BOD was unfair.

There is still England to play at home[4] and then we’re away, travelling to play Scotland and Italy. Fingers crossed that we have no more injuries, and that O’Driscoll is back quickly. And that O’Gara’s ankle injury is the nothing they are all making it out to be.

There are more photos on flickr but they aren’t great quality, too far away. I need a shiny new camera. And also, tickets to the Ireland V England match would be lovely, you know, if you have any to spare.

Linknotes:
  1. wikipedia ↩
  2. wikipedia ↩
  3. see, I can be magnanimous in defeat ↩
  4. and we CANNOT lose that match ↩
Tags: 6nations2007, Amhrán na bhFiann, Croke Park, DAvid Trimble, Eddie O'Sullivan, England, flickr, Geordan Murphy, injury, Ireland, Ireland V France, Ireland's Call, Isaac Boss, Ronan O'Gara, rugby, Shane Horgan, Six Nations

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