In the true sense of this blog WHOOPSADAISY I’ve missed my very own first blogiversary by five days. Yikes.
16 September 2008 I took the plunge, mostly because my arm had been twisted to join in The Blog Pound but I decided to take the plunge by myself as well and started to blog here on [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2001, 9/11, experience, history, Manhattan, New York, September 11, September 11th, tragedy, USA, world history, World Trade Center on September 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of my american cousins has changed his Facebook status to this today:
“Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Absolut, Axis, Carpet Theatre, comedy, Dublin, entertainment, Fringe Festival, Ireland, The Blanch, theatre on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Being from ‘De Blanch’ as it is affectionately known, I was either going to love or hate a show based on the ‘loveliness’ of the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and it’s frequenters. When I first saw Darraghs video from the launch of the Fringe Festival I thought this was one show I had to see. If [...]
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Some time ago I came across some wonderful drawings of glamorous ladies in the 1940s. The artist was David Wright, and the pictures were drawn to epitomise female glamour during World War II. They really caught my eye and I intend to purchase some prints of them for when I eventually get around to putting [...]
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