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Newer posts →. January 13, 2015. Winter has well and truly arrived at our doorstep, here in the dawn of the new year. The snow isn’t so much snow as it is tiny pellets of hail. But we’ll take it just the same! Weirdest part of this particular storm was the thunder I heard rumbling around in the clouds. In Colorado thunder in a snowstorm means bad bad things. Here in Galway it was simply curious. The flamingo and the Buddha remain calm. The water gnome remains happy. December 30, 2014. October 23, 2014.
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Almost Summer (“Samhradh”) | galwayrambling
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Is é Éire mo bhaile. Politically correct →. Almost Summer (“Samhradh”). April 19, 2015. Mr Whippie in Salthill, Ireland. Summer, “Samhradh” in Irish, starts on May 1. Yesterday I was at the Salthill promenade. A chill wind was blowing and the sun was shining. I sat in the windbreak of a cement structure and enjoyed the atmosphere. Was darting and hopping about eating flying bugs. A young man stripped down to his swim trunks and ran into the cold water of the bay wherein he began to yell about the cold.
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Earth, Wind and Water. | galwayrambling
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Galway Burlesque Festival →. Earth, Wind and Water. May 27, 2015. Warm day, the wind rilled sand upon the rocks, forming drumlins like a stream bed. Misty day, the mist like fog, hung in the air. Stand still, stay dry, move and become soaked. Breeze clears the mist, darkens the drumlins with damp, leaves the leaside sparkling and dry. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Galway Burlesque Festival →. One response to “. Earth, Wind and Water. May 27, 2015 at 4:58 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Create a...
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Politically correct | galwayrambling
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Almost Summer (“Samhradh”). Earth, Wind and Water. →. May 17, 2015. 8216;just come from the sky’! Speaking of the insidious church, I am finding it more and more difficult to listen to people make reference to their god without adding my two cents. All these exhortations of “God bless you” and “God willing” and “with God’s help” etc. There’s an atheist group that I think I should join – and I will, as long as they don’t ask for too much of my time. This entry was posted in Being American in Ireland.
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Things I’ve Seen | galwayrambling
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Things I’ve Seen. July 12, 2015. Sometimes I see a little thing and try try to remember so I can write about it here. Then I usually forget to write until I see the next little thing I try to remember so I can write about here. Now I sit at this keyboard and try to remember all those little things. So today a list:. They call the ocean the sea here. They call the bay the sea. Cindy and I went down to the sea one warm Sunday a few weeks back to put our feet in the water. DAMN it was cold! There was a fami...
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Things I’ve Seen. July 12, 2015. Sometimes I see a little thing and try try to remember so I can write about it here. Then I usually forget to write until I see the next little thing I try to remember so I can write about here. Now I sit at this keyboard and try to remember all those little things. So today a list:. They call the ocean the sea here. They call the bay the sea. Cindy and I went down to the sea one warm Sunday a few weeks back to put our feet in the water. DAMN it was cold! There was a fami...
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Is é Éire mo bhaile | galwayrambling
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You know you’ve been long enough in Ireland when…. Almost Summer (“Samhradh”) →. Is é Éire mo bhaile. April 19, 2015. The US feels plastic, nothing seems to be real. Everything seems to big: cars, houses, grocery stores, roads, serving sizes. It’s the consumer mentality gone wild. On top of that a lack of recycling, maximum packaging, few family owned stores. Nothing that I want to really support with my hard earned cash. Mo bhaile = Ireland is my home. This entry was posted in Being American in Ireland.
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Is é Éire mo bhaile →. You know you’ve been long enough in Ireland when…. March 22, 2015. You watch Father Ted and laugh your head off because you get the jokes. You have a conversation with Paddy down at the Saturday market and understand every word he said to you. Someone uses a colloquialism you’ve never heard before but you still get it. Your Irish friends quit giving you a hard time for speaking like a local. You get used to the funeral notices the bus driver listens to on the radio. National Univer...
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GreenWatch Galway- 'A Walk Through Litter-Strewn Woods & Parklands': Advance Pitshop Finally Remove the Litter from their Premises!
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GreenWatch Galway- 'A Walk Through Litter-Strewn Woods and Parklands'. Advance Pitshop Finally Remove the Litter from their Premises! City council responded to my complaint on Advance Pitstop. To inform me that they served notice on the Dublin-based owners (see last blog article). Good News No. 2! Advance Pitstop has actually cleaned up the mass of litter that lay at the front of it premises. The place still looks grubby. Broken Walls, rusty railing and still some litter around its grounds.
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