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a simple picture yet full of optimistic colours for the last day of 2011. happy new year to everybody!
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CillDaraMan: New Years Eve with a difference
1/800, f/4, ISO 100, E-510, 40.0-150.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 @ 40 mm
Though it’s been very mild at home here in Kildare over the Christmas and New Year period I doubt if many folk in Ireland spent the morning of New Year’s Eve having a barbie on the beach and watching the locals enjoying themselves in the sunshine.
Four years ago I had the pleasure of doing that (despite the jet lag) and have to say it’s a great way to finish the year.
Grannymar: Openings ~19
It was the colour that drew me to this entrance.
A colourful doorway in Belfast that holds a surprise:
A Doorway to learning Circus Skills!
My New Year Toast
May the year ahead open doors
to interesting and heart warming experiences
for all my readers.
inphotos.org: Charlie Chaplin’s Kerry Accent
Charlie Chaplin, the star of silent movies of a bygone era spoke with a Kerry accent. Well, he did when he spent time in the town of Waterville in that county of Ireland. So his daughter says in this RTE documentary called “Kerry and the Tramp”.
It’s a wonderful documentary to listen to, especially as they interviewed his family and people who met him who all had their own stories about the actor.
I did not know that he was practically forced out of the United States because the authorities there suspected he was a communist. They let him back in the 70′s, but only for 15 days. He joked that they were still afraid of him!
I installed the RTÉ DocOnOne app but it’s stuck on the “Loading” page so best to not use that if you’re on Android. Does the iPhone version works better?
Then I was left wondering how do I subscribe to an itunes podcast without itunes but thankfully searching for “documentaries on one” in Podkicker worked!
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