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Post by cato on Aug 4, 2017 19:46:47 GMT
You need sharp wits on this site. 馃槈
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 17, 2018 14:16:16 GMT
I like the Hotel Trivago advertisement girl, Gabrielle Miller. Apparently she's big in Australia, but I'd never seen her until she did these ads. She has such a laid-back, breezy, girl-next-door persona. I also like the Australian accent, especially hers. Australia is a strange country. It's so similar to us culturally but we don't know what's going on there, for the most part. (And even more so for New Zealand..) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46al9h2Ui0
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Post by cato on Jan 17, 2018 22:00:03 GMT
Ann Dunne reading the news on RTE. I hear she inclines to popery(in a non Franciscan way) She manages to prevent me throwing my bust of General Franco at the TV.
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Post by S茅amus on Jan 18, 2018 8:53:01 GMT
I like the Hotel Trivago advertisement girl, Gabrielle Miller. Apparently she's big in Australia, but I'd never seen her until she did these ads. She has such a laid-back, breezy, girl-next-door persona. I also like the Australian accent, especially hers. ..) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46al9h2Ui0Really??
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 18, 2018 9:08:26 GMT
Really! What's surprising about that?
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Post by S茅amus on Jan 18, 2018 9:26:18 GMT
Really! What's surprising about that? I don't ever remember the accent filling me with happiness. Or ads with the accent. While on the subject- there's a grotto being built at the moment at the chaplaincy church for a BVM of Lourdes statue. The only stonemason to be found in Perth at the moment was an Irishman. I hadn't really spoken to him , snatched bits of sentences made me think he was from Ulster but he asked me a question today which would make one more inclined to think it was more on the Cork side. Amazingly (or not) the uncompleted grotto looks much like an ancient Celtic Skelligs or Gallarus oratory-type building.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 18, 2018 9:50:54 GMT
Really! What's surprising about that? I don't ever remember the accent filling me with happiness. Or ads with the accent. While on the subject- there's a grotto being built at the moment at the chaplaincy church for a BVM of Lourdes statue. The only stonemason to be found in Perth at the moment was an Irishman. I hadn't really spoken to him , snatched bits of sentences made me think he was from Ulster but he asked me a question today which would make one more inclined to think it was more on the Cork side. Amazingly (or not) the uncompleted grotto looks much like an ancient Celtic Skelligs or Gallarus oratory-type building. Well, the accent is only part of it. I'm glad to hear the grotto has such a Celtic feel.
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Post by S茅amus on Jan 19, 2018 6:01:59 GMT
Really! What's surprising about that? I should add, that there ARE some aspects of Australian suburban living that make one happy, but they're simple things, like so many birds flying around -providing they aren't swooping on you or trying to gouge your eyes out. Or the smell of gum leaves, especially after a rare Summer's rainy day.
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Post by irishconfederate on Jan 24, 2018 0:50:38 GMT
The sight in the streets of old Christian women going about their lives.
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Post by cato on Jan 24, 2018 11:23:45 GMT
The sight in the streets of old Christian women going about their lives. Pray elaborate. Intriguing remark.
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Post by irishconfederate on Jan 24, 2018 22:52:46 GMT
The sight in the streets of old Christian women going about their lives. Pray elaborate. Intriguing remark. I dare not as I feel I might trample on something sacred..... The sight of an old Christian woman on her own pushing her trolley through town, doing her shopping or another in a country town sweeping the pavement directly outside her door I find beautiful sights. They seem to express a timeless goodness to European life. Time seems to stand still around them as they were formed in a world that had order and rhythm to its life and they are still part of those older rhythms and seeing them in today's world, one confronts goodness and the incongruity of them going about their small womanly tasks amidst the sheer disorder and lack of peace in contemporary life. Hooray for old Christian women!!
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Post by mrsmac on Jan 25, 2018 19:35:09 GMT
My child and husband
Mass
Reading a really good book I can't put down
A roaring fire (in a fireplace!)
Windy weather
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Post by irishconfederate on Jan 28, 2018 0:11:29 GMT
Finding my Mum ironing with her ironing board out in the living room doorway as she's watching TV. It reminds me of my childhood, the peace and purity of her soul and her virtue of keeping the house going.
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Post by cato on Jul 13, 2018 22:18:08 GMT
Great to see large crowds of people out at the Trump Pride Marches in the Uk. That ammount of social justice warriors , lefties and sore losers having a collective melt down was the high point of the week.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 23:33:31 GMT
Great to see large crowds of people out at the Trump Pride Marches in the Uk. That ammount of social justice warriors , lefties and sore losers having a collective melt down was the high point of the week. Trump's blunt talk on Brexit and rebuke of May had to be cheering to those who voted leave. He radiates strength and she weakness and duplicity. Recalling our recent discussion on dictatorships, you can understand why frustrated voters might give up on democracy and turn to the wrong solution. May illustrates the temptation.
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