We almost considered moving into council housing,
We've had to re-home several of our animals.
We've applied to have songs included on an RTE series (no news yet).
We've also sent songs off to be considered for RTE radio grants/competition (no news till September)
I almost went busking in England, but the two free days were torrential rain.
We got drunk on a few occasions and I almost caused a fight on one of those with a friendly remark that someone looked like the fella off the Go Compare add. Another of those occasions I played a vintage EKO Ranger guitar (a massive love of mine) that I found leaning against a washing machine and had a guided tour of a B&B... another of those occasions included a run in with some poiteen/home brewed polish vodka and a strained ankle tendon and the Ronald falling down behind a mobile home..
The car only broke once.
All our coats went mouldy.
I've read about six books, three of which were utter shite.
We didn't get booked to play a local festival (they will regret that next year when we're plastered all over the radio)
I bought one new vest and have worn it twice.... in England.
Oh.. and we are booked to play at the all Ireland Craft Beer Fest in the RDS in Dublin at the end of September... (will put definative details up when we get them)
Cheers!
P.S whatever the hell is up with blogger, I cannot leave comments on this site and a handful of others. I have deleted my browsing history including cookies and it still tells me mt account is not authorised to visit this site and sends me to the sign in page! I'm extremely annoyed at this stage, so if anyone has any ideas on how to get back to normality, let me know! :-D
in the mean-time, enjoy some photos of what our summer has consisted of.
August vegetables
the pond and my stone walling ;-)
veggie patch
guinea fowl or, skeksy
incubator full of eggs
bus trip in Cheltenham
baby chicks hatched in July :-)
Ron's gardening corner
i enjoyed your book review!!
ReplyDeleteYea! for the return of the Cats! Frabjulous garden you have there, though having to rehome animals is terribly sad.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck and perserverance with your projects.
Please help me for Christ sake
ReplyDeletetesting?
ReplyDeletewoo hoo! :-D
ReplyDeleteINDIA:
glad you enjoyed the reviews, sometimes that's all you can say about a book :-)
NANU:
cheers! the garden is maniacle at the moment, all this warm/wet weather has made everything grow at three times tha normal rate.. as for the animals.. sometimes you have to be a grown up and take responsibility, if I didn't re-home them it would be a case once winter struck, "do I feed the animals or the child".. it is a terrible fact. :-(
MAJID:
get in the line mush...
Yay, welcome back!!!! I wanted to get to Cheltenham and meet up, but work (the curse of the drinking classes) got in the way! Go cats!
ReplyDeleteGood to see you again. Have you been growing pork pie hats?
ReplyDeleteIf the person offended by the comparison with the Go Compare ad bloke was a musician, they should have taken it as a compliment. I take my hat off to anyone who manages to earn good money from music, as he must.
Cheltenham??
Yay! Your cauliflowers are fantabulous! And bus trips in Cheltenham! You know how to live.
ReplyDeleteYes, we suffer mouldy-coat syndrome too.
Er... that's it.
Wishing you the very best on your many amazing coals in the fire!
ReplyDeleteDo your guinea hens make the sound of a squeaking gate like they do here?
Rain is good. You could be in Oklahoma and parts of Texas, where they are now at 50+ days with no rain and temps over 100ºF.
Great work on the stone walling. Good to have you back.
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest trying a different internet browser if you still can't comment, but i see you were able to comment above.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping there will be some gigs soon
ARGENT:
ReplyDeletecheltenham busking never ocurred thanks to the weather turning on the few days I had spare, I was amazed at how busy Chelt has got!
DOMINIC:
Pork pie hat plants are a sub species to mexican hat plants.. the offended fella was young young, but old enough to know better, he said something about pissing on my face afterwards, which a Northern irish fella we'd been chatting with took as a highly offensive thing to say to a lady (if only he knew).. and cheltenham was the city of my birth, when you say that people raise an eyebrow and think posh.. but do an image search on Hesters Way, and that's the place I spent eleven years of my youth :-)
TITUS:
It's nice to be back, I think Autumn sucks me back into introvert mode, plus the weather becomes really bad, as opposed to just bad, so I'm in the house getting bored more, not that I need to be bored to visit people's blogs.. but it helps, ;-D (couldn't resist)
JEANNE:
Thank you for the lovely words :-)
I adore Guinea fowl, they are the most entertaining birds ever! I'm sure Skeksies from the dark crystal, and the bird from up were modelled on them. Ours has only just figured out how to fly.. sort of. Until then they were plummetting the ground and managing to spin whilst flying. They regularly run into things, and do indeed sound like they need a dose of oil ;-)
ENGLISH:
Cheers, that's the best bit of the wall.. somewhere there is a massive fault where i missed overlapping stones most of the way up... even so, hopefully, if no'one leans on it, it should last for a few years!
D.F.T.P'S;
I was considering that myself, then re-read owens comment from previous post about un-checking the keep signed in box... why the feck that should make a difference lord knows.. but anyway! all sorted hopefully :-)
It does not sound like this summer will go down as your best ever...but you sure did grow some fine vegies, and your stone wall is mighty fine, and the trip to England got you away for awhile. I'm so sorry you had to give up some of your animals (have no idea what council housing it but hope you get to live where you want to live). I am just happy to see you back blogging, as I have missed you. :)
ReplyDeleteLYDIA;
ReplyDeleteThanks :-) Council housing is housing provided by the state, in towns, on estates. generally pebble dashed and with neighbours from hell.. but they are near as be damned free rental, depending how your means test comes out. We had a mad moment where we were seriously considering it as an option. But we are pulling out all the stops to stay put. :-)
Hello! I had the same trouble a while back... searched the crap out at "Real Blogger.."
ReplyDeleteWhen you sign in to your blog... DO NOT CHECK tthe keep me signed in block. Should retum-ify the problem.
Great news on your music
sorry ya had to rehome some animals, the chicks are very cute tho! carry on with the glamourous musical life!!
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so glad you are back
ReplyDeleteJust so you know you're not alone. One of the reasons I foster dogs is because I know I can't pay a vet bill (and sometimes food)if I had one of my own just now. it must have been hard as hell to see them go but I am sure you placed them in good homes.
ReplyDeleteImage search duly done!
ReplyDeleteI once went out with a girl from Cheltenham. She went to the Ladies' College and played the timpani.
I will be praying that some big bags of cash are going to fall out of the cargo bay of an airplane flying over your place, and fall right in your garden...
ReplyDeleteYep, will be thinking plenty of positify energy your way the next time I open a beer...