This morning I woke up tired as usual, but please with the events of the night before; a great meal with some friendly people and that very long, but truly great film, The Fiddler on the Roof.
Upon quickly checking my mail before leaving for work this morning I found that I had received an award in the early hours.
Indeed I have been given an award by Grannymar for “creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community.” Awards don’t happen often, and when they do they are to be treasured, and placed in my virtual award cabinet. My award, from Grannymar, is special two-fold. Firstly, to be given an award for any reason by Grannymar makes me feel very special, but then to be the only of her Toyboys to receive one, gives me even...
The photo bloggers who made it to the meetup on Saturday.
Taken outside the Bernard Shaw Pub, Dublin.
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That feeling I normally get before the blog awards of “oh my, I haven’t read enough blogs lately, or left enough comments. I will be asking everyone how they have been only for them to say ‘not been reading my blog? It’s all there.’ And I will have to say no.
on the bus to dublin
Thanks to Twitter this wasn’t the case as I met with John, Catriona, Will, Redmum, Darren, Lexia, Gingerpixel, and Nathalie and Eoghan. Twitter helps me feel more in touch when I don’t get the opportunity to read every new blog entry.
alexia, catriona, will, darren, john, davy
After meeting Davy we made our way to the Bernard Shaw Pub for the Toejam carboot sale, at the back of the Bernard Shaw Pub in the Portobello area of Dublin.
Toejam carboot sale, back of the...
You can't get away from them. They're lurking around every corner. They pop up in unexpected places.It's worse than a plague. Where on our planet is there a blogger free zone?Thank God, it's not that bad but it's slowly getting that way.Anyway, the first blogger I heard today was Rick. I've a confession to make, today was the second time ever that I've heard Rick O'Shea on the radio.I did find out he's one of those consumers that buys newspapers for the freebies that accompany them. He's obviously better educated than I am as he buys papers with free 'Teach yourself Irish' CD's'.I buy papers for 'free horror movies' dvd's. He is definitely a top DJ and worth tuning in to, though the reception for RTE up here isn't great. If bloggers ever have a 'Worldwide Top Blogging Dj Competition' I...
I'm finding more and more blog posts are, as the title of this post suggests, 'Unbelievable'. Maybe 'Unbelievable' isn't the correct word to use, maybe the word to use is 'Waffle'. When I was involved in the entertainment industry 'waffle' was widespread. The stories that bands and entertainment agents forwarded to newspapers and that they printed would make make fiction writers turn green with envy.The Bog-Standard Bloggy Rockers have just finished a 6 week tour of the USA and are appearing at the Bog-Standard Ballroom of Boogie on Saturday night' really means they haven't been working for a month and are lucky to have a booking, they're that bad. One of the funniest I remember was an article in the Sunday World about a stripper who...