Posted in Agony Aunt on Mar 20th, 2007 7 Comments »
Did any of you read the statistics on the hospital bugs situation?
It was in Saturday’s Irish Times.
The figures were alarming.
The Blackrock Clinic rated high in the Bugs Department.
In fact, compared to the less salubrious hospitals, its rates were way up. Crawling with bugs.
Himself and meself are paying an arm and a leg to [...]
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Posted in Revenge on Mar 15th, 2007 8 Comments »
He is nagging again.
If it’s such a pain in the arse for him to have to drive me to a medical appointment or for a bit of shopping, why did he make me leave town to follow his dream seven years ago?
I’m feeling a bit low. But a lovely man on the radio from SHIT [...]
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Posted in Wisdom on Mar 14th, 2007 11 Comments »
Kate Thompson wrote a book.
No publisher wanted it because it was no good.
You might remember that Kate was Terry Killeen in Glenroe - the trollop who had a fling with Dick Moran who was married to Mary who was Biddy’s mother. Kate talks posh Anglo-Irish ascendency like.
Because no publisher would take the book, she [...]
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Posted in On Reception on Mar 12th, 2007 4 Comments »
I read in the paper recently that the man who gate-crashed Pat The Plank’s gig is still being held in custody. Fair dues to him, I say. The man had a point to make and what better platform.
However, driving his car at the front glass windows is quite another matter.
In another life, I sat [...]
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Posted in Adventures on Mar 11th, 2007 9 Comments »
Grandad put black shoe polish in his hair for ‘the Interview‘.
My white Egyptian cotton pillowcases and sheets are destroyed.
I’ve been down at the riverbank soaking and sloshing and banging them off the rocks. No go. Me poor arthritic hands are cold and sore.
Do any of you have a tip for getting out black polish [...]
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