Category: Personal

Woo Hoo!

After a fifty year gap, Motherwell reached this season’s League Cup Final last night, with a typically-nailbiting performance over Hearts… Marc Fitzpatrick‘s 120th minute extra time goal seeing us squeak through 3-2 (and him sealing his Fir Park immortality), having thrown away a 2-0 lead with five minutes of normal time remaining.

Hopefully Dundee Utd can see off Rangers tomorrow night, to set up a repeat of the classic 1991 Scottish Cup Final… but somehow I doubt it.

Drookit

Went to see ageing Clydeside crooners Wet Wet Wet on Friday night. Rattled out all the old favourites expertly enough (even though Marti needed a crib sheet for some of them), but I think it was probably the first gig where I’ve had to sit down, and it’s just not the same really. This was more than adequately compensated by also being the first gig I’ve been to where you’ve been able to buy a CD of that night’s performance right after the show, though… bye bye bootleggers!

Disney matter, so it disnae

Julie’s parents were over at the weekend, one consequence of which was a trip to see Disney On Ice – Toy Story 2 at The Point. Was certainly well staged, although it was just a re-telling of the movie, and given the high standards you’d generally expect from a Disney production, for me there was just a bit too much falling on backsides to make it quite the belief-suspending experience it might have been. (After all, you don’t see the guys doing the stunt shows at Disneyworld crashing into the other cars through lack of practice when they’re doing their now-obligatory extreme parking…)

Dow dow, dow DOW!

Dublin’s Evening Herald newspaper isn’t generally a barrel of laughs, but I had to chuckle last night at the caption accompanying the photo of the late Irish blues guitarist, Rory Gallagher:

Gallagher who, unfortunately,
didn’t wake up one morning.

What do customers know anyway?

Last night we had our last ever Cadbury’s Choc Fudge bar. Only ever available in Ireland as far as I know, we’ve been stockpiling them since Christmas, when Cadbury’s told us that they were being withdrawn due to lack of customer demand.

If you know of a country with more discerning customers where Choc Fudge is still available, you know how to get in touch 🙂

Luas

Dublin’s long-awaited and massively over budget tram^H^H^H^H light rail transit system, aka Luas (the Irish word for “speed”) finally got rolling last week. Despite coming in for heaps of criticism for as long as I’ve been living here, it does look kind of cool, and the offer of free travel for the first week has seen queues of up to 1000 people at some stops.

Within the first few hours, though, one of the trams had already hit a car…

Oh my god– they Kilkennyed!

Spent much of my **th birthday today taking in the rather excellent Wexford v. Kilkenny Leinster hurling semi at Croke Park (and snapping a few photies such as these into the bargain). We’d decided to support Wexford beforehand on the informed basis that they had the coolest shirts. Having already reached my Guinness limit for the day, though, we celebrated the result with several slices of Julie’s home made dark and white marbled chocolate cheesecake instead.