Archive for the ‘Ireland’ Category

5
Apr

Pecker Tracks

   Posted by: goinglikesixty

For Grannymar Pecker tracks I can see from my computer.
25
Mar

Get Weird and Win!

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The Junk Drawer Blog is goofing off somewhere this week, but she left an assignment for her commenters. She stole a comment game from Comedy Plus. The Junk Drawer Blog is fun, but whoooo boy, her commenters are just so vanilla, so white bread, so unimaginative. Here’s how SHE explained the Comment Game. It’s very simple. I start [...]
18
Mar

My Old Irish Tail

   Posted by: goinglikesixty

Francesco wrote today… Few cultures have as rich of a literary tradition as the Irish. And few literary traditions are as steeped in abject sadness, soul-crushing squalor and pub-related fatalities as that of the Irish autobiography. Yet each year we continue to be enthralled by books from authors that by all accounts should not have lived [...]
22
Feb

An Old Friend Showed Up at My Door in a Package

   Posted by: goinglikesixty

When I was a young lad, my family’s best friends were Rubened. Ruby and Eddie Hodge. Rubened to every one. They even signed their Christmas cards Rubened. Eddie went to a business school to become an accountant and one of the requirements was exquisite handwriting. My Aunt Morna attended the same school and their handwriting [...]
27
Nov

Like It’s Author, The Book is Off

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We’re all writing books! Well, those of us writing blogs are writing books. Was this in your plans when you started blogging? Are you writing another more traditional manuscript hope someday it will be published. Would you like to see your blog develop into a book? Here is your encouragement. Head Rambles is off to [...]
13
Sep

Grannymar’s Tips For Mental Health

   Posted by: goinglikesixty

Be careful, don’t fall into the lure of thinking she isn’t serious about these ideas. I’ve read enough of her stuff to know that she has done - or will do all of these. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See [...]
We will soon be the proud owners of a Mach One spinning wheel. After a week of complaining about sore ankles (!) Nancy has made enough revolutionary moves that she is committing to becoming an owner. The ankle soreness was from over-spinning or super-circulating the Mach One. We have a dog or two that loves to eat [...]
21
Apr

Oh Those Beautiful Viking Fashionistas

   Posted by: goinglikesixty

Boomspeak.com added the perfect image to my post on their site about reenactors. The second one: the one where the Vikings are all beautiful and have fluffy pure white collars. I want to be one of those Viking reenactors.