Things I like ...

Jolly types is fine, but I got the strong impression that Trackside was hinting at something totally different Kri!
 
Really? Now then, just in total confidence, would you like to tell me what that might be, Red? ;)

Many years ago, I asked my mother (a Connolly), if she ever felt 'a bit Irish'? She laughed and said, "Some days I feel completely Irish!" I think she meant when she was in manic mode...

One of my cousins has gone into ancestries, and the news from the Corkite quarter isn't that great - none of them seems to have lived too long, most going with a variety of congestive/consumptive/alcoholic ailments, although one dear soul did apparently die in a boating incident. His business was in trouble at the time (Connolly Cables, big stuff in the 1920s, down the pan by the 1940s), and the family thinking was he'd done the 'noble thing'. :(
 
krizon said:
The quarter of me that has Irish genes doesn't just have Irish ones, it has Cork ones. I'm pleased to hear that we're jolly types, not dour, whiny creeps.
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Interesting, do you have a Superiority complex ? If 'no' those genes have not been expressed ;)
 
Neither superior or inferior, Sheikh. There's nowt complex about me - what you see is pretty much what you get. That's no doubt the background of Lancashire weavers and Portsmouth seafarers blending into a no-crap mix!
 
That's a Corker, Grassy! Did I say they're known for their wit? (Corkites, not Meathians or whatever the term is. Know nothing about them. Wexford - if Mick Fitz's accent is typical, it could cut wood at 50 paces, couldn't it? Really harsh twang to it.)
 
Catching stray bits of other people's conversations. One snippet of a mobile phone conversation overheard in the Queen's Hotel last week :

"Do you really want to know where I am, Darling? ... Okay then. I'm sitting on a toilet in the Queen's ... What do you mean "too much information"? You did ask where I was ... My knickers are pink, by the way."
 
Making omelettes hotel-style -

Put all eggs in large blender; turn on blender until all shells are broken; add seasoning and/or herbs; blend again until eggs are well-beaten; pour eggs through sieve; cook omelettes.

Great fun!
 
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