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Danger! Risk of being attacked by pixel 🐍
Danger! Risk of being attacked by pixel 🐍
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Irish person’s reaction to Brexit – in video
(Wait ’til the very end…..) IPSOS-Mori carried out a survey of all Irish people, asking the question “What is you’re reaction to the word “Brexit”? After analysing the results, they commissioned stop-motion artist, Bernard Tyers to represent the results in a stop-motion short movie. Here is the result. Tyers is quoted as saying, “I feel…
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Spilt Lentil Soup – Shawraba Adas
Shawraba adas (Split lentil soup with onion, cinnamon, cumin lemon juice), a lovely Lebanese soup, with a little sumac and mint garnish.
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Is that a Hockney?
Sitting in St. Pancras Station, waiting for the Eurostar. Drinking a hot chocolate (lumps of cocoa dropped into hot milk). Woman walks passed as I dreedle the last chocolate into the milk. “Very nice, is that a Hockney”, she says.
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1 de Enero! Ya falta menos!
Ya falta menos! Artist: Cesar Oroz, of the wonderfully sarcastic and hilarious La Tira De Oroz.
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Me as a unicorn
Before Christmas, while we were having lunch in a lovely Greek restaurant, my nephews and niece imagined me as a 🦄. I particularly appreciate the beard and sparkles.
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Shed with green door, Fews, County Waterford
When we visited family on Sunday, I remember standing outside this building after coming out of church.
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Graveyard Dog
My Dad & I went to visit my Grandparents’ graves before Christmas. We found this lovely little 🐕 taking care of the graveyard grounds.
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This fella is in the newspapers. He should he returned.
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Cooking lesson in Maolin National Park
We stopped in to a roadside shop for a drink. The very friendly woman and her daughter there made us a pumpkin and pineapple juice, and an ash gourd and lemon iced tea. When I asked what ash gourd was, she very kindly gave us a lesson on how to make the iced tea.
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Dinner with 🐖 trotters
Rice, cabbage, omelette with taro (?), greens, beer. All good. Pigs trotters. Not so good. I tried them, but won’t be trying them again.
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Good morning Wutai
Wutai (Chinese: 霧臺鄉; Rukai language: Vedai) is village in the Wutai Township. The township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The main population is the Rukai people of the Taiwanese aborigines. As of the year 2014, the Rukai numbered 12,699, and is the seventh-largest of the 13 officially recognized indigenous groups in…
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A Japanese Izakaya, Kaohsiung
An izakaya (居酒屋) is a type of informal Japanese pub. They are casual places for after-work drinking. They have been compared to Irish pubs, tapas bars and early American saloons and taverns. — excerpt from Wikipedia article on izakaya
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Hair cut achieved
I managed to get my short back and sides haircut in Kaohsiung today. Hair cut, hair wash, and neck massage all for 300 NTD. Total bargain. I’m leaving this here for next time I need to get a hair cut when I don’t speak the local language well enough.
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Don’t you think Taiwan should be independent?
Taiwanese woman: Where are you from? Me: Ireland Woman: Oh! Ireland is independent. Me: Yes, it is. Woman: Don’t you think Taiwan should be independent? Me: Yes I do. Woman: Hmm, some people don’t think it’s important.
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The Wizard of Alderley Edge, performed by unknown
(Click the play button above this to hear them play.) I went to the Low Lights Pub in North Shields last night for a pint and a pie. I didn’t expect anyone to be there, but these boys were playing a gig. Lovely folk songs. Apparently they play every Sunday, maybe Monday, and Wednesday (when…
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Cockles and mussels alive alive-o
I was in Wales visiting the cockle beds at the Three Rivers Estuary in Carmarthen for work. These cockles are about the size for picking. You know this due to the size of the shell. Cockle shells are like a tree – each “growth ring” (running perpendicular to each ridge) signifies a year of growth.…
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Ivor Novello statue, Bute Place, Cardiff – by night.
Ivor Novello, born 15 January 1893 and died 6 March 1951. Born David Ivor Davies, he was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in…
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