A little poem for you

Here's one by Hilaire Belloc that I always liked. A Python I would not advise. It needs a doctor for its eyes And has the measles yearly. However, if you [...]

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Aer Rianta case, part the second

I promised you an update on the Aer Rianta story if I heard any more, so here you go. I bumped into another lawyer type yesterday evening, and brought up [...]

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Lovesick, broke and driftin'

The Wrinkly Romeos are playing the Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots festival over the weekend, which ought to be pretty good. The festival, I mean, not the Wrinkly Romeos. Their drummer [...]

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Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe

  Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS     As you can see, the bums are safe.

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Well done, the Guards

What? No, you haven't changed channel by mistake. Well done, the Guards. A complete skobe by the name of Kevin Dunne attacked a Lithuanian man called Vytas Sukys and beat [...]

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I couldn't stop myself

Yesterday, I booked flights for myself and the Bullet to the East Midlands airport. I don't know why: it just seemed like the right thing to do. Gonad has a [...]

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The strange case of the aeroplane and the knitting

I heard an item on the news tonight, about a woman who sued Aer Rianta for . . . for . . . well for what, I'm not quite sure. [...]

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Halliburton

I've been in fairly frequent correspondence with my old friend Joe-who-works-for-Halliburton-the-unprincipled-bastard. Let's call him Joe d'Arab, for simplicity. Actually, he's a baldy fucker from Tipperary (hock-thooey!) but we'll overlook that. [...]

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Goodnight

I seem to have been building this kitchen for about eighteen years now, and I don't know when I'll be finished. I'm hoping to have most of it complete within [...]

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Here's yet another piece of doggerel

Little Willie from the mirror Licked the mercury right off, Thinking, in his childish error, it would cure the whooping cough. At the funeral, his mother brightly said to Mrs [...]

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