cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

johnfás wrote:

Thats where they already are!

Hmm, maybe we need to up the ampage on this. Have you access to some liquid nitrogen? That might be of sufficient coolness to preserve your goods.

Heston, is that you? 

With some mashed papaya and quail egg porridge served with X-rayed rocket salad.

It's is you! I thought your lentil, mercury and diswater soup was divine! 

I'm glad to hear it! Wait till you've had my flambéed pomegranates in an amino acid coulis and you'll be in a whole new world!

Or back to the gastroenterology ward... again. 

Well, you'll be delighted to know that my aperitif is Picolax-enriched mulled wine! Synchronicity or wha?

Well you'll all be delighted to know my mother has just arrived and is making hot chocolate.

Hot chocolate, heavy rain and a Tunnocks teacake. What else is there in life?

Kate P wrote:

Well you'll all be delighted to know my mother has just arrived and is making hot chocolate.

Hot chocolate, heavy rain and a Tunnocks teacake. What else is there in life?

A terrific, triumphant, Tunnocks trinity.

It's a very nocturnal existence that you seem to live down there Kate.

Not really - I'm usually an early to bed and very early to rise person. Tonight, however, the weather is worth staying up for.

I would love to be a morning person, I just can't pull it off. 

I love being first up in the morning, gives you free run of the bathroom when you are competing with a sibling. I also love to be first down to breakfast. I also much prefer going for a run first thing in the morning rather than in the evening. I'm going shopping first thing with the girlfriend tomorrow morning... or should I say I'm going bag carrying... and then I'll study in the afternoon.

I have a negitive association of being up = going to work. I always rise late on a saturday and feel half the day is gone even though if I was up at 8am I don't doubt that I would be in bed 3 hours earlier. I like being up early when I have a defined purpose outside the norm like during the lisbon campaign. But I guess being in the city centre made it a lot easier. I guess maybe commuting has something to do with it. 

Yea, I think living where I do, in Terenure, enables me to enjoy my mornings more than others might. Whilst it is most certainly a suburban existence, my bike gets me into town in circa 15 minutes so I can probably enjoy a week day morning more than others might.

I like the sound of rain on water. Especially on pools or large fountains.

johnfás wrote:

Yea, I think living where I do, in Terenure, enables me to enjoy my mornings more than others might. Whilst it is most certainly a suburban existence, my bike gets me into town in circa 15 minutes so I can probably enjoy a week day morning more than others might.

Are you the annoying woman off the AIB ad? Seriously, I only watch about an hour of TV a week and I must see that ad about five times. 

Hahaha, I know the ad indeed. I am a customer of the AIB in Terenure... I just wish they would give me as much money as they seem to have given her.

I love the fact of having the world to myself in the morning - when no one is around. I like getting up, putting on this ugly grey snuggly woolly wrap thing, sitting on the step with juice or hot chocolate, depending on the mood and doing some work or morning pages. It's not the same at the moment because of the houseguests who come and go at all hours and I hate being interrupted during those hours. I don't find it hard to get up - though on nights like this, I find it hard to go to bed.

Arnaudherve, if you like the sound of rain on water, you're in the right place. I think it might be time for a rain appreciation thread. Ard Taoiseach likes the rain too and I've heard other positive mumblings. Maybe together we can win them over?

The sound of rain is one of my favourite things, particularly when I'm in a tent. Oh how I wish I was back in the monsoons I had for a few nights in Africa - amazing!

I have to ask, johnfás; where were you when you took that photo of your feet?

Kate P wrote:

I have to ask, johnfás; where were you when you took that photo of your feet?

Terenure. 

That was taken about 3 weeks ago in the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park. It was an absolutely glorious day and we had been walking for ages and ages and ages. The water was wonderfully chilly and was exactly what the doctor had ordered for our sore feet!

Below our photos in either direction of where I was sitting when I took the one of my feet.

Johnfas, you're classic, wonderful.

I genuinely don't mean anything bad or mean by that. It's just, I don't know anyone who has ever been near the Diana memorial. And I am the absolute opposite of those Irish who stick with their own, I always fled that and have always only had English friends.


... so thanks for the piccies. The sodding thing seems to have been working the day you were there.

I like

Berliner Weisse mit roter Schuss.

This is, on a very warm day, the best drink in the world, in my opinion. It is basically beer which, on its own, is terrible but when mixed with raspberry syrup, somehow tastes magical.

Glühwein.

Winters in central Europe would be unbearable without this. Hot wine with cinnamon. Great combination.


My Swiss German-German/German Swiss German dictionary.

Can't live without it.

My favourite evil beer-with-fruit combination is Bitter with lime juice or lime cordial - so thirst quenching. A habit picked up in the East End of London.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Glühwein.

Winters in central Europe would be unbearable without this. Hot wine with cinnamon. Great combination.

Oh dear me, yes! How come you (a) can't get it in Ireland and (b) make it taste anything like it should taste when you make it yourself?

cookiemonster wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

Glühwein.

Winters in central Europe would be unbearable without this. Hot wine with cinnamon. Great combination.

Oh dear me, yes! How come you (a) can't get it in Ireland and (b) make it taste anything like it should taste when you make it yourself?

Can't answer that one, cookie, I'm afraid. Just be thankful for the real thing. And Stollen at the Christmas markets.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Can't answer that one, cookie, I'm afraid.

You are just not trying hard enough...

*glares*

Also, I like red wine. I tend to fall out of the habit of drinking it for months on end and then all of a sudden get back into the swing of it.
When that happens I always forget exactly how much I can drink and exactly how drunk it can get me.

cookiemonster wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

Can't answer that one, cookie, I'm afraid.

You are just not trying hard enough...

*glares*

Try Lidl. They had Glühwein in 2005, but it came with instructions in German. It is quite possible that the customers didn't heat it up and drank it as they wold a normal bottle of red wine and found it awful. Mind you, Lidl definitely would not have Glühwien on August 1st. Anywhere.

Besides it never gets cold enough in Ireland for Glühwein.