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The tory party fringe event has probably become the main party conference in the intervening 40 years. Our attic had loads of 50s birthday cards and a couple of teenage girls magazines from the 70s. Most interestingly I found they had used a copy of the irish press from 1956 to wrap the...

That songs now stuck in my head. Minor complaint

It’s been a bumper year for butterflies here in Marino as well. Couple of species I’ve never seen in dublin before. I also saw a dragonfly on Dame st. Of all places. Although I hear we’ve FOREIGN dragonflies these days….

It took a while, but I’ve finally adjusted the new 2-point tremolo bridge on that strat to my liking. It’s loose enough to give a nice shimmy wobble of tremolo here and there, but not so loose it goes out of tune.

fierce warm altogether.

ha no. A primary school principle from the days when the priest and school principle were the only two in the village with anything beyond a primary education. The story is he was involved in planning/adminstration/quatermaster sort of stuff (rather than running round the fields with a lee...

lots of Irish folks in the british army in wwi, many kept their heads down on their return (without channeling Kevin Myers ;-), more than a couple put their skills to good use in the WOI the most interesting link with the great events of history in my family is my maternal grandparents; English...

Maximising the storage potential of my sheds rafters and eaves

we have all merged our individual prickishness into one corporate entity of prickdom

I just got called for a job interview. I'm not absolutely bounding out the door in my current place, and had applied just to test the waters. So its nice that I can still write a competitive application. Job would be a step sideways, but probably a good move career wise, but but a short...

the opportunity cost of free bounty bars

to the horn thread!!

The days of loitering outside chippers annoying people are on their way

Young lad learning to cycle.. just went fully independently today

This is a fuzz pedal I built from a kit years ago. Does the fat 60s/70s fuzz sound very very well, but a bit of a one trick pony. At some point I added switchable clipping sections (ge diodes) which just gave me more fat fuzz. I clipped a single wire this morning which means the pedal now...

I'm listening to soundgarden superunknown for the first time in about 25 years. Brings me back to a particular memory of being an unhappy teenager, walking around in the snow in an oversized east german navy greatcoat, listen to a poor quality recording of this on a cheap aiwa walkman.

sometimes the best minor pleasures are the ones that have no real meaning for anyone else but yourself..

ha - I was just about to throw in the cairo comparison. was there for work earlier this month. holy fuck.

the only thing I can think of that would get you a traffic fine in italy is consistently driving on the wrong side of the road

I've tuned my banjo CGDA, and its much more fun.