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Tomorrow I head for the wonderful wilds of Co Cork in the Emerald Isle.

I am visiting Laxie Towers for the weekend so I thought I might need a few essentials

Clothes (can't be scaring the natives)
Smellies (can't forewarn them I am in town)
Spare liver (have you seen them two drink !!!)
Camera (might need some blackmail leverage)
Crutch (Leg still sore and I might need a weapon in Dodge City)
Phone (I have a feeling I might need to call the emergency services)
Euros (Re mortgaged to cover the weekend)
Fast Car (obv IMO)
Copy of Ted Harringtons ("How to deal with people who think 10 5 is the new AA)  -- Timothy back me up on that one
Personal phone number of Michael O'Leary (Ryanair are bound to lose my bag)
Earplugs (Think about it)
Roshambo trophy (Nah on second thoughts that would be cruel)

Looking forward to it -- any other thoughts on essentials would be appreciated

extra earplugs in case you lose them obv.

Have a GREAT time as im sure you will with Laxie looking after you :-)

A sexy nightie and you just might pull ;-)

Luckily, he has the nightie.  After that...he's on his own. 

Plan?

Friday - standard piss up with poker thrown in for fun.  Hope he's brought a helmet...it could get ugly.  10 5 is premium compared to the usual Friday night fare.

Saturday - In the pub by 4pm.  Has to be done.  Munster Final.  Ye know how it is.  Plan was to get the bus into town at 4:30 and sit still watching the match until concert time, but that's been over-ruled. 

Bus collecting us at 7:30 (this is the change he's unaware of...lol) and off to to the Glenn Eagle in Killarney.  80's concert to follow at 9pm with these groups:

Midge Ure, Paul Young, T'Pau, Howard Jones, Nick Heyward and China Crisis.

Followed by best of 80's disco with RTE's Les Vickers.

Bus to collect the lot of us at 2:30am where we'll either end up in a local pub or back at one of the 'party houses' unless everyone is too pissed to carry on.  We'll let you know.

Sunday is 'cure' day and will more than likely involve an extended period of drink...has to be done.  Obv.

Monday - I send him back to the UK, hopefully with a liver.  Only time will tell.

Packed and ready to go

I think I will be OK (been in training for this weekend for 30 years)

Have a fantastic weekend! 

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Have fun and GL

To be fair...he brings out the 'quiet side' in me...no ear plugs required.   ;whistle;

Last minute cleaning being done now.  Well, being done after I catch up on posts. 

Himself is at work.  Somebody has to pay for this week-end.

Off to the airport just after lunch.

Have checked gas tank to be sure we don't run out again half way through cooking the dinner.  Happened last time.  Sigh.

Will get him to report in once he's safe in Knocknagree this evening. 

Yeah right  :dontask:

Have a great weekend  - and don't forget the updates.

Munster FTW

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Sorry for Neil Back's misdemeanour 6 years ago!

The eagle has landed.  After making the 90 minute journey back to my house, he's currently sat up at the bar of our favourite local.  I decided I'd join him and cheated by ordering the chipper for everyone instead of cooking.  That's been delivered and devoured and I only hope there might be a scrap or two left for him when he decides to ramble back.  As he's still not here, my job as hostess is to return to the pub to entertain him.  The things we women do for our guests.  Sighhhhh. 

So I arrived back to the pub to find Duke chatting with the locals and the owner of the pub, Martin.  Duke has been hanging out in this pub since 5:30 and shows no sign of budging.  Martin has a cheesy grin on his face at the thought of it.  Pint count?  We've already lost count.   rotflmfao

Timothy landed around 8:30 after a long day at work.  Duke has a tale of my driving abilities.  He tells the tale to Timothy.  He's threatened to post it here too.  It's lies.  All lies I tell you.  Anyway, it's pretty clear the Guinness is FINALLY having an affect on the big guy. 

Friday night poker at Martin's is a friendly affair.  We never have more than 10 players and the first 2 levels are usually a limp fest while everyone finds their feet and tries to gather a few chips early.  Note, I said USUALLY.  They've never played on the same table as The Duke...and he's already cleared the bones of a keg of Guinness.  Bring it on!!!  I'll spare ye the gory details as I'm sure he'd like to post his version, but Duke was the first out, courtesy of yours truly...by the second level.   rotflmfao 

He spent the next hour shaking his head in disbelief.  The next two were spent...snoring at the table.  He had finally hit a wall.  Timothy got a photo of him slumped at the poker table.  Will figure out how to get it up here.  There's a turtle on Duke's head.  It had to be done.

Anyway, today is a new day.  He's just surfaced and I'm about to cook the fry up.  Long day ahead.  Munster match at 5:00.  We'll be in the pub for 4:30 to get seats.  Maybe even 4:00...just to be sure.  Bus collects us at 7:30 for the 80's concert in Killarney.  Will we outlast The Duke again today?  Only time will tell, but I reckon odds are good.       

Sick call in my opinion -- more later

Landed in Cork airport, which was awash with song and merriment due to the hordes of Munster rugby fans an their was to Cardiff. Laxie was there to greet me and we headed off to their home village.

Headed off !!!! Laxie does a superb impression of driving whilst..

1) Not looking at the road
2) Never drawing breath between sentences
3) Always being in the wrong lane - however Manoeuvre, signal, mirror seemed to work perfect.
4) "Who needs Sat Nav, shiite was that my turn off"

Dropped the bag, hit the pub had a couple of scoops and settled down nicely. Laxie goes to feed the multitudes and I elect to stay and keep Martin company (mistake).

Friday night game was a howl (Fking sick call to take me out tho). Tiredness did get the better of me and I took a little power nap. There are pictures I understand.

Great people, perfect environment, priceless.......

Midge Ure, Paul Young, T'Pau, Howard Jones, Nick Heyward and China Crisis.

Superb line up and seen all of them over the years. saw Paul Young a couple of weeks a go and his voice isn't the same but gave it a good go, but Howard Jones is still excellent.

Have fun.

Relaxing before the Munster match and the 80's night out.

This is really a lovely place, just been across to Baby's house (she must be 90 if she's a day) and had the obligatory whiskey. What a lovely woman....

The balance here is just right, Dawn's children are spot on (how I don't know  rotflmfao ) To see Sarah taking to Baby on every subject without any of the usual awkwardness associated with children when they are around older people was delightful to behold. It's idyllic and a way of living that I miss, everyone knows everyone and they all have time to say a few words to you.

Liver will take a pounding today and I promise to pace myself and stay awake.....

Above all priceless !!!!!

Brilliant performance by Munster - great grinding imo - worthy Heineken Cup winners 2008.

Carole Decker FTW

have a great night out folks ;letsparty;

They won, we had fun and all is right with the world.  Brain is mush.  One of us will give proper report later.  Proberly. 

Alright Laxie - what have you done with the Duke?

 rotflmfao  He's a bit battered and bruised for sure, but he's been delivered to the airport and should be in the air as we speak.  Poor guy.  He would have taken a wee nap, but he's got issues with my driving and was afraid to take his eyes off the road.  Despite my efforts, he's still not convinced women can multi task. 

A few notes in my defence

- Wasn't me
- Obv.
- He's hallucinating
- All lies

There now.  He'll be on soon enough with the rest.   rotflmfao

nice one laxie might keep him quiet for a week or two ;tk;

Weekend Away

Left for sunny Cork on Friday – Dawn  picks me up from the airport and after a nail biting journey to Knocknacree, dumped the bag and went up the town at approx 5pm, proceeded to down a few pints of the black stuff and when Dawn left to feed the hungry hordes I thought it would be rude to leave the pub, so I stayed.  There was a little friendly STT for 10 euros that night and I played my normal tight non aggressive game and got well and truly battered  ;angel; (hand analysis thread has the story). I even fell asleep at the table with my head on Margaret's (Dawns friend) shoulder. This prompted a little merriment at the time. I was introduced to her daughter later that weekend as “The man who fell asleep on top of your Mother”.

Saturday was the day of the Rugby Final with Munster playing Toulouse so we of course had to be back in said pub for 4.30pm. The atmosphere was electric and Timothy (long suffering spouse – lol!) was in fine form setting the world record for putting F words into one sentence. Anyway Munster won and much celebratory drinks were consumed. The mini buses arrived at 7.30pm to take us to the 80’s concert, there were 16 people in all. We got into the second bus driven by ‘Tex’ possible one of the largest individuals I have seen in a long time. On the road to Killarney Dawn pointed out two hills that were next to each other and were in perfect symmetry with a valley between them, looking like a large pair of women's appendages. The locals had added their own touch by placing a large visible mound of stones on each the peaks…………

We arrived at Gleneagles where the concert was being held and it was excellent, just a few notes/highlights.

Dawn had her first argument with the barman five minutes after arriving

Dawn cleared  space on the dance floor after knocking two pints out of a mans hand, (he was after queueing for those for 25 minutes)

Dawn later in the night in the “Green Room” played musical beers with the singer. She would leave the drink on the amplifier, he would continue singing and place the drink on a ledge, Dawn would take a drink and put in back on the amplifier (rinse & repeat about 10 times)

Dawn and Timothy giving an X rated version of “Dirty Dancing”

One mini bus for the pickup (16 fitted into an 8 seater)

Lawrence (organizer of the trip) forgot his sister and had to be reminded by the Taxi driver

Timothy telling the bouncer, when we went outside for a cigarette, that there would be trouble if he touched his drink, which we had to leave by the door.

“Tex” driving home with an overloaded mini bus one hand on the wheel the other with the mobile – 70% of the trip was made on the wrong side of the road.

Sunday morning arrived slowly – and as is the custom we had to retire to the pub at 1pm for a couple before dinner. We left town at 7.30 for said dinner. Ate and returned to the town for the disco. Much merriment “Dancing Queen” Timothy was embarrassed when the DJ was persuaded to play the ABBA song. Arthur, who had won 880 Euros at  poker game on Saturday night, was getting his wallet nicked often. Dawn had progressed to pint glasses of JD and coke. We eventually made it back to the house for a couple of nightcaps and to bed.

Made the Airport on Monday in one piece after "ooopps that's the wrong lane" Dawn dropped me off, Back to Chezger for rehab  ;tk;

It was a delightful weekend, Lovely people, Dawn and Timothy have beautiful  happy children (how in the hell they managed that – you figure). One of the best weekends I have ever spent. Carlsberg don’t do villages – but if they did………………

excellent duke welcome home

Yeah Paul was a bit tired -- but boy can he still work the crowd
Howard Jones was awesome
T'pau -- still has it
Midge Ure -- Vienna FTW

Awesome night

The barman was a chancer!!!  He charged me for 7 drinks when I'd only asked for (and received) 6.  As it turns out, he was probably right to do so, as I then proceeded to argue for the pint of Guinness I thought was missing.  Poor guy.  He filled another after some stranger backed me up.  Carried the drinks out to the crew, only to find the Guinness had already been delivered which is why it wasn't on the bar.  Sigh.

Not my fault the lad's pints were spilled.  He shouldn't have gotten in me way.  lol

'Dirty Dancing'?  Probably.  Sigh.

Pints of JD and coke?  Obviously.  I was feeling it a bit earlier today.  Sigh.

Was a delight to have you here and you're more than welcome any time.  xx

Oh yes and on the way to the airport today

Quote "That Beamer has been up my ass since Millstreet" Unquote   rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Sounds like you all had a great time. I was shattered just reading it.

some more quotes

"Lawrence where's your effin sister"
"Timothy you're not going to spill that drink in this Taxi"   ooops
"Dawn you're not going to spill that drink in this Taxi"   ooops
"That effin refer effin ree is effin gay and the commen effin tator is first on my effin hit list"
"Where are the effin car keys, they are in the effin pub" (4.30am after coming back from Killarney - not for driving but for the front door)
"How's the beef doing" "Fine as long as they didn't let the dog in" (whoop whoop for the win)
"Where's my steak" "What steak ?" as he picked the bits out of his teeth at 5am
"Whats that smell" (Pizza was being warmed up in the oven at 5am still in its cardboard box)
"effin sick call" -- "But it was you dude" <sigh>
"Meet Ger - He's the the man who fell asleep on your Mother last Friday"
"Do you teach my children"
"No coaching at the table"  "I'm not coaching - go all in Margaret"
"Are you going to take for those drinks"
"Dawn ? how many can you fit for the beef - OK let me make a few calls"
"Is this a nice pub -- lets see"  (Sunday)
"I'll tune it up for you" Duke to Baby (96 yrs old) the TV the TV !!
"Did you give out the flyers" "No Mam we stuck them on cars - after we removed the florist's ones"
"If Midge Ure doesn't do Vienna there WILL be trouble"
"That effin bouncer has it in for me"
"Martin what will your tv be when it grows up"

to be continued......................

 rotflmfao Quality