Iced Coffee: you got me, officer
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4am. Saturday night/ Sunday morning. Cork city centre. Ireland.
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Iced Coffee: cork, it’s a riot
It was almost 4am by the time we got to Grand Parade on Saturday night and found ahead of us a huge crowd weekend revellers, as well as a number of Gardaí. I was drawn to the them. I let the others go on as I was sure my Hotel was this direction anyway.
After quickly scoffing the rest of my chips I pulled the camera out of my bag, got in amongst the crowd and started snapping. The first wasn’t brave enough to go to the very top of the fountain, and got down soon after. Then another one got up, cigarette in hand and proceeded to make his way to the top tier, kicking the water about his feet, while the Gardaí paced on the ground, keeping the crowd at bay when necessary. The fellow at the top was having a great time. Surely he knew what was to come?
I asked three of the guards what had happened before I arrived. One said, “Just a usual Saturday night, other ignored me and one said she had no idea, though it wasn’t a “usual Saturday night.” I was told to stop taking photographs. I think I ignored that.
We know this guy is smart by the fact that he had the great idea in the first place to climb the fountain, his way of getting back down, however, was to jump one tier at a time. Oh until he reached the first tier where he would slip, hit the small wall of the pool at the bottom and fall to the ground. The Gardaí ran towards him, as did the crowd. Pushing and shoving pursued until he was eventually dragged towards a wall and cordially seen to. Some wanted to have a laugh.
Before you ask again, no I’m not from the Echo, but I will publish your photograph.
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Scenes of Ireland (and more): Feast
As I approach forty....
This photograph was taken among good friends, in a remote place (Sanday. Orkney) and reminds me of good times and friendship, my spiritual beliefs, magic, wonder, fun and laughter.
The candlelight and medieval food, lovingly created by a good friend, represents my love of history and joy in the past.
Iced Coffee: change is here
Today is monumental and historic. With months of build up Barack Obama is the new president of the United States of America. The most powerful election in the world, and the best man won.
The time has come when, despite still lingering rasicm throughout the US, a Black man can become president, the people are able to look beyond skin colour and base judgement on what he stands for.
Lets hope we see the change.
And what a win it was:
Jonathan Hill: Botanical Herb Vandals
I think it could be a great name for a rock or death metal band...
McAWilliams: TTQT - Your desires!
Yay, Tuesday Twitter Question time is back, and with all the election malarky going on at the moment I decided not to ask anything election related, and instead talk about christmas, inspired by @pixievondust’s revelations last week of the really long list she placed on twitter of what she wanted for christmas, I thought I may aswell ask what gadgets everyone else desired.
macsuus from amsterdam was the first to reply very simply with “TomTom, the sat nav to stop her driving backwards down streets!”
mitzs said “A clothes dryer! I don’t even care if it is used….”
stretchneil was the next to reply with what I expected more of “If apple would bring out docking stations i’d be happy. Iphone in the meantime!”
shadowcall was next with “Amazon Kindle, click here to see”
grannymar “A toyboy! ;)”
PixieVonDust was thrilled with this question, suppose only right since she inspired it “Yay! gadgets! I believe I have already listed out a gazillion things I wanted! Im also likeing the Fujifilm Finepix Z20 I tested a while back (and not because its hot pink), http://url.ie/v2x this Philips TV is also loverly. I’ll be quiet now, realistically tho I will probably invest in a good monitor for my xbox 360.”
davymac “For Christmas… an iPhone with a battery that lasts a week under extremely heavy use! Oh alright 2 days then… so my ideal Christmas present would be a Morphie iPhone case/battery”
daraghlally “Prob the Macbook Air, or a HD projection TV”
sineadkeogh “A backscratcher… hmm, in actuality, probably an e-reader”
elfinamsterdam “Hmmm, i *think* i’d like an iPhone (have no use for one tho) but I’d most like a 1tb TimeCapsule and/or Airport Extreme, wish i had known about the airport extreme when i was buying my wifi router, as then I could have had wifi network @home!”
lecraic “No more gadgets for me this year, I have too many as it is, although a jetpack would be nice”
petsaretalking “Roll-around ice cream ball: click here to see more”
moonstruckmania “A working sound card, so I can watch tv online”
damienmulley “I’m thinking hard here and I don’t know. I would like all my music on one iPod so maybe the iPod classic. Now thats my baby …”
chrismehigan “The apple keyboard. I need a new keyboard =)”
marramgrass “New Mac Book Pro :-)”
bigstevie1275 “I would love a macbook as my next gadget only because I have most things and as well as that I have seen the light and mac is the way to go, I do have a laptop already so I’ll just wait till I need an upgrade. Oh sorry for answering early LOL”
jkeyes “a gadget that’s a real possibility, or any gadget on the planet? I’ll aim low and say an Eye-Fi card.”
WillKnott “Most desired! I Still want the 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime. I’ll make do with an enjoyable job”
Debz “I want to get Clocky “For himself, but I fear it would be chasing the damn thing around every morning! :P”
simonmcc “50mm lens for my 400D”
darraghdoyle “I’d love one of the write to text pens. Filofax do them. Just write normally then upload to software that converts to type.”
pokey_jo “I want one of those robots that vacuums your floor for you.”
So there you have it, a small idea of what the folk of twitter want for christmas, and thanks to all of them for taking part! As for me I would love a laptop, a canon 40d, and possibly an A3 printer! not greedy at all am I!
