Princesses

My wee sisters two girls were dressed as princesses for the royal wedding :) I think they look cute. The weather is so nice here today we went sailing instead of watching the ceremony but its been repeated on the news channel a few times and we havent seen any street parties today here to go to so we may have a guiness for them later at home. Its Friday so we will be having out usual Friday night barbeque.

I have a 50 Euro note hidden in my sock as I read about the elderly patient in a Cork city hospital was found to have €60,000 strapped around him. I dont have 60,000 but I know my 50 will dissapear if its spotted.
The man brought the money into the hospital with him in fear that it would be stolen from his home while he was away. Garda and health sources say the man is only one of many who brought large sums of money into hospital with them in the past year. In other cases, tens of thousands of euro have been brought in by patients worried that their houses could be burgled. And others are fearful that relatives will have access to their money in their absence.

Vets, frets and a large Creche lady

Well today was the day the dogs love to hate, it was Vets day. Now I have had some experience in the past with attending the surgery, wee Roory used to try and eat the vet if he threatened to insert anything up his anus, I'd probably do the same! Ishan peed himself with worry over the needle, I'm not that bad but after having my near death experience thingie and a spell in the hospital with things sticking out of veins and twice daily blood removal I dont care for them either. Worst I ever saw was a Croatian lady Dr trying to get blood from Angie after her car accident, she must have had 8 botched attempts at finding a vein and Angie was covered in bruises from her attempts, nurses are far better I recon.

Anyway Gus went first, Jessy waited in the car, he was fine sitting in the waiting room, fine getting the jab and I thought golly gosh this is too easy, or thoughts similar. Gus back to car Jessy to surgery and she got hers no worry, then I asked about Kennel Cough, it required a nasal spray which we managed to give Jessy, but when I returned her to the car got Gus and tried to give it to him he managed to jump off the bench reverse out of his collar run through the surgery waiting room shouting "Feck that" in doggy language out onto the pavement where 4 of us got him cornered and a large lady from the Creche, who has "experience with children" jumped him.
Now Mother, the word "feck" is not a swear word I checked and it, the origins of the word 'feck' are Irish or Scottish. In early 19th- century Britain, the word meant to 'keep a look out", right enough I'm no sure why the dog was yelling "keep a look out" but hey.

lamb stew

Well  I made a sort of North African spicy lamb stew with couscous, it was tasty, diced lamb, onion, mushroom and cubed pumpkin, Thai 5 spice, Harisa paste and tomatoes and the couscous was Ansley's Morocain style with bits of fruit etc.

People that didnt attend my dinner this evening were,
The Prince and Princess of the Asturias (I had to google Asturias)

The Crown Prince of Bahrain
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde of Belgium
The Sultan of Brunei and Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha
King Simeon II and Queen Margarita of the Bulgarian
The Queen of Denmark
King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes
Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece and Prince Constantine of Greece
Sheikh Ahmad Hmoud Al-Sabah of Kuwait
Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso and Princess Mabereng Seeiso of Lesotho
The Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia
Prince Albert II of Monaco and Miss Charlene Wittstock
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco
The Crown Prince and Princess of The Netherlands
The King and Queen of Norway
Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman
The Emir of The State of Qatar and Sheika Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
King Michael I of Romania and Crown Princess Margarita
Prince Mohamed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and Princess Fadwa bint Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman
The Queen of Spain
The King of Swaziland
The Crown Princess of Sweden and The Duke of Västergötland
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand
The King of Tonga
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia
The Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

Yes you guessed it I'm bored.

Trailer advert

In a huge advertisment drive, with no expense spared I did some small adjustments to my trailer so I could place a bike on top of it and leave it lieing around where people might see my telephone number and rent a bike, it didnt work of course but looking on the bright side as I always do, I never got a parking ticket either.

Had another excersise filled day again with a good few miles done on the bike and walking.

It was another brilliant day weather wise, have been spoilt this last few weeks, and I have just finished cutting the lawns again, you can almost see the grass growing this time of year. I shall have to put some weed and feed grass improver on the lawn as there are a lot of weeds through it, I'm kinda loath to spend money on someone elses grass right enough.

heavenly ginger lilly gus

Well we didnt go sailing, couldnt get the dogs into the kennel as it was full and Angie didnt want to leave them home alone, I was going to go myself but wasnt allowed, I sulked like mad, girned for a wee while about "whats the point in buying a yacht if it sits in the yard" then resigned myself to watching the rugby.

Took the dogs for a walk / swim and Gus got a wash with a wee bottle of shower gell called "heavenly ginger lilly" so he has to be refered to now as "Heavenly Ginger Lilly Gus" makes him feel like he should be in Crufts and he smells wonderful.

Depletion of the ozone layer- the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays - has reached an unprecedented level over the Arctic this spring because of the continuing presence of ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere and a very cold winter in the stratosphere. The stratosphere is the second major layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, just above the troposphere.

The record loss is despite an international agreement which has been very successful in cutting production and consumption of ozone destroying chemicals. Because of the long atmospheric lifetimes of these compounds it will take several decades before their concentrations are back down to pre-1980 levels

The area above the red line will be affected by the harmful rays.

Went up to my pal Keith's mines as he said he had a nice bike ride on his land on the old Clifden to Galway railway line, it was quite hard going riding in the long grass but very pretty.

then we drove up to the Maam mountains and hard a wee cycle there too, so between our two rides and the walk with the dogs this morning it was an energertic sort of a day.

The sound of lambs has to be the most springlike sound there is and cuckoos always make me think of Spring /Summer.

I shall be attempting to Dap in the next few weeks.
While the major trout rivers flow into the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland, in the west of the country are to be found the finest brown trout fisheries anywhere in western Europe. Hard fighting, native trout that rise freely to the fly and are excellent sport. Many Irish anglers follow the Mayfly hatch as it spreads northwards along the river and lough systems on Ireland's west coast. Starting in early April, the Mayfly hatch can last into mid June. At its height, when the loughs are dimpled with rising trout, gorging themselves on the spent, adult flies, it is referred to as the "Duffers Fortnight." A period of about two weeks when, seemingly, every cast of the mayfly imitation produces a reaction from a feeding trout.

A popular and a productive way of filling the creel during this period is by "dapping" for trout. Using extremely long fly rods and floss silk attached to the mono-filament backing on the fly reel, the imitation fly is blown by the breeze, with the angler gently dapping it onto the ripple, thus imitating the the natural fly carried on the breeze. The take, when it comes is firm and the temptation is to tighten immediately. Striking too fast when dapping invariably means loosing the fish. Experience suggests otherwise. The old Irish dappers, or so the story is told in the pub afterwards, lit their pipes before striking a fish!

tics? bricks? words ending with s?

I forgot to blog about tic's infact I also didnt mention bricks, the dog has been picking up tics the last few weeks and I found one that had had its fill and fallen off yesterday, he has a very thick coat and its hard to see them in it, not the tic the dog. Anyway he is due his shots so I shall ask the vet if they have anything for tics.

Angie bought a 3 pack of Radox push top hygenic handwash bottles you know the ones that can kill off 99.9 percent of germs and the cat, anyway one is real weird its called "African Savanna" looks the colour of water buffalo pee and smells like cold tea. That reminds me of my most unfavorite advert, its for a handwash bottle that dispenses the goo automatically when it senses your hand, or the cat, below the spout. How stupid is their reasoning, they say that the pushdown part has a lot of germs on it from your hand, hmmm ok  your about to put goo on your hands that kills off 99.9 % of germs whats the problem? I  hate that advert so much that if you are in the room when it comes on I will go into a diatribe over it.

bricks, tics and other things that end with "s"

Well I never got stoned, giggling here imagining all the dopeheads that are googling the word "stoned" getting my blog as a hit. I actually got a couple of emails saying how funny they found my writing, so I paid them and got to wondering what on earth they had found so funny cos I was perfectly serious. Not the dopeheads the people reading my blog.

Anywayyyyyyyyyy, I heard in the news at breeakfast that Doctors had removed Toole from intensive care, I was only half awake and imagined a load of Indian Doctors wrestling a sphygmomanometer through the hospital. Sphygmomanometer sounds kinda reptilian ehh. Of course they were talking about Peter Toole who had the bad fall on the Grand National race day, no not Peter O Toole he fell down every day apart from Grand National day.


A young woman has been rescued after getting into difficulty while swimming in Co Donegal this afternoon.
The alarm was raised by a member of the public at around 4pm after they spotted the swimmer in the sea at Bundoran.
She was being helped by another person and was eventually brought ashore by the RNLI lifeboat, I think maybe her problem may be of a mental nature.


The suspect device found at Swords garda s Forces deployed the team to the scene outside Swords garda station in response to a request by the gardaí station has been classified as a false alarm. An Army Bomb arrived on scene at 3.30pm and carried out a controlled explosion on the device which was located underneath a vehicle.
Further examination of the device found it to have no explosive content, "Turnip?"  and the scene was declared safe at 5pm.