Tight Tuesday
Yep, you've guessed it: It's going to be a lean Christmas at the dragon household. Name the reference in the comments. Lean, lean, lean. However, Ralph at Paypal sent me back the 10 euros that had been lost in the aether, which meant that I could go down to the ATM...
Meagre Monday
Yet another day up here on the Long Lane with barely a speck of cash between us. Made another batch of biscuits and tried to make some sausage gravy, but it didn't pan out very gravyish. Came out more like sloppy joes. Which was fine by me because one sausage filled...
The Other Mad Carpenters
In a moment of idle contemplation, I googled "The Mad Carpenter" and apparently it has shown up in a lot of places before I got to it. I don't see this as ripping off someone's idea, I see it in the way I see many things: Good ideas never die. Two totally separate...
Lazy Sunday
All I've really done today is recover from an awesome couple of days, and update this website because I've been rushing around the last while without any internet access or laptop. Hope you've all had a good weekend.
Saturday On The Beach
Finally a bit of good weather came our way, and once Ed, Aidan and Greg landed round at Ruth and Senan's place and off we went to The Bridge Club. Which involved driving over a lot of tiny bridges, and farting around in rivers. We explored the beach, went spelunking...
Carandonagh Party
I could babble on and on about how Senan and Ruth were fantastic hosts, the poker game was great fun, we drank all the beer and whiskey, midnight pies and losing an argument with a barbed wire fence but the pictures speak for themselves. Very image heavy after the...
Biscuit Day
Finally got my money! Hooray! Not that I look particularly joyous... Did a mess of shopping, ate well, and prepared for the trip to Carandonagh tomorrow. Going to do some partying with Ruth and Senan: there shall be lots of pictures. View Larger Map Edit: It's called...
Zinc Saucier Edition 1 – Biscuits
Why hello there and welcome to Edition 1 of... The Mad Carpenter cooks. Or - The Zinc Saucier. Name the reference, get a shout out. I've wanted to cook home style southern Biscuits for ages. It's something that's been cemented into my cultural knowledge of America:...
Social *expletive deleted* Wefare
Alrighty then. Money is tight in this economy, and it's tough to get by sometimes. Last week, because of Good Friday dole payday was a day earlier. Which was sort of nice, but it meant that I had to make my money [50% of Irish minimum wage maximum by the way] last for...
Easter…. Tuesday?
I don't think there's an Easter Tuesday but it gets difficult to think up fun and interesting names for each and every day. Trying some new stuff for the blog, like picasa, so if things are a little dicky for a while, that'll be why.
Easter Monday
So today I had a big fat steak with barbecue sauce on it. Much like Barbecue Tuesday. And here is [theoretically] the 105th picture of the year. I started posting pictures here on the 5th of January, despite having started the project on January 1st. Today is a rather...
Easter Sunday
I finally got around to watching my Night Watch DVD. Check it out, the third part in the Trilogy is coming out this year, and for the twilight fans out there, it's got vampires. And one of the books is called The Twilight Watch. Other than that I did nothing at all...