Recent content by Rigor Mortis

dodgy internet, double post.

I came to the end of what I wrote tonight to discover it was exactly midnight. What I have for the month is 13,228 words, making this the longest thing I've ever written. I didn't make the minimum 15k standard, but have put down words on a tale that's played on my mind a while and figure I've...

The Rock is about 22 miles from where I'm sitting right now. I've not been in since they completed the restoration work. Did you kiss the Blarney Stone? I wouldn't have thought you needed it, but it couldn't hurt. I'm very glad you and yours are having a good time.

Something I came across yesterday. While I did buy a Django Reinhardt album when I was a lot younger, enjoyed it but can't say I ever went any further than that one album and not otherwise familiar with his work, saw him on youtube video last night, fret hand seemed odd and checked it out to...

Stunningly beautiful part of the world, though a bit too touristy for my liking. We were once driving the Gap of Dunloe, gorgeous, and approached one of those lads driving the horse and carriages. I asked him about the opening hours of the nearby pub for something to eat. He asked was I renting...

An apology alone is not enough. Now go back and tell Marvin the Paranoid Android you will most certainly have a drink with him. The first round's on you.

You'll find all kinds of Americana round these parts. We're largely partial to such things. Mind you don't get run over by the throngs rushing for the Black Friday deals, which is a relatively new addition. We even tried cheerleaders for a while until the rain and sleet on a mid-winter evening...

There’s a beach near where you are, between Liscannor and Lahinch that I referenced in the nonfiction contest a couple of months ago. If you see dudes out surfing off those beaches, one of them might be my youngest brother. His partner was one of the managers in the hotel in Doolin. I’m glad...

Good to see you on the board @Louanne Learning. I was beginning to think this "Ireland" was entirely some fabrication of your fertile imagination. Glad it's going well. Doolin and the Cliffs and that whole part of coastal Clare are my favourite spots in the country.

Hopefully more intrguing to OP than irritating, but my first thought was the villain I most certainly wouldn't have a dtrink with and that's Anton Chigurh because doesn't apply in his case. Kurtz from Heart of Darkness-does he count as villain?- sit and tell me of the horror, and would you...

It's hard. No doubt about it. Personally speaking, though, when holding my daughter for the first time, I won't say everything made sense all of a sudden, but it began to look like it meant something. I don't remember when exactly my wife first said, "I thought we'd be better at this," but it...

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I thought this a little strange. A colleague at work is keen to get Christmas cheer going. Other's of us are saying it's not even December. Ignoring the grinches, she went ahead and sent an email to the office about Christmas cheer, announcing herself as "self-appointed office elf." I said to...

Safe travels. Something below that might help you out.

Temperature has taken a right dip this week but at least it's dry so no ice on the roads. I believe the cold snap is expected to end come Friday with rain warnings for parts of Munster. If that's still the forecast, hopefully the roads will dry before it freezes again. In the event of...