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16 Feb 2012
It seems like every day there's a new business opening on Capel St.
Shauna's pet shop opened recently just a few doors from Pantibar, same side, toward the river. Shauna is an energetic young woman setting up in business for the first time, though she already knows the pet shop business well having worked previously in the memorably named Whackers Pet Shop on Parnell St. Having a pet shop practically next door is great for us in Pantibar - between myself and managers Shane and Harry we have three (and ocassionally four depending on Harry's neighbour) dogs to look after. Shauna's shop also has a basement where she has a good range of fish and reptiles. I caught Bunny looking wistfully at a tortoise recently.
And today I saw a couple of gays getting stuck in to what used to be Wolfe's Bistro just up from Pantibar on the other side, so looks like we'll have another new restaurant to try out soon.
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01 Feb 2012
Lovely short film of Dublin street artist Maser working on Camden St.
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14 Jan 2012
Out & About is Dublin's gay and lesbian hillwalking group and they meet every Sunday. They meet up in town before heading off together to various locations. New members and visitors to Ireland are always welcome. All the details - including their upcoming schedule of hikes and how to get in touch - at their website (click the link above).
Here's a video of last Sunday's hike in the Dublin Mountains, by Dave Donnellan.
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20 Dec 2011
I'm not sure when this was filmed, but according to the YouTube description it's from a forthcoming documentary. But I'm now a fan of Finglas rapper Temper-Mental MissElayneous, and the oul' wan she raps for. That's some intense listening!
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22 Nov 2011
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05 Nov 2011
Me and my shadow.
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30 Oct 2011
It being Hallowe'en an' all, myself and Penny went with our friends Phillip and Adam to Glasnevin Cemetary this afternoon, where roughly 1.5 million Dubliners are burried. If you've never been I highly reccomend it. Apart from the impressive tombs and mausoleums of various people of note (everyobe from Casement to Parnell to Collins to Maude Gonne to Daniel O'Connell's impressive tomb topped off with a huge round tower) it's really atmospheric and stuffed with fascinating statuary, headstones, undreground tombs, follies... and if that's not enough there's a cafe. We opted to just explore for ourselves but you can get guided tours, and round Hallowe'en there are spooky storytellers and other stuff going on. At one point we passed a large group gathered round a grave who suddenly burst into applause (I assume to thank a guide or something) and Adam looked up and said, "She must have been a real bitch!".
It was a fun day. We spent a lot of it trying to peer through cracks or holes in to tombs, trying to see a body for the day that was in it, but to no avail. So insted we tried to ake spooky photos:
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29 Oct 2011
Veda and I took our respective pooches to Dollymount Strand for a walk today, only to discover when we got there that the strand had disappeared under a freakishly high tide.
Even the road through the dunes to the beach was under water.
So, change of plan and we went to St Anne's Park instead. I hadn't been into St Anne's since I was at a "Lark In The Park" with In Tua Nua back in the mid 80's sometime, and I was really impressed. I had no idea it was so big or so gorgeous, with wodded paths, culverts, bridges (very Ashford & Simpson "Solid As A Rock" video bridges!), spooky athmospheric crumbling follies and tunnels, as well as the broad avenues, manicured lawns, and cultivated beds.
We were in one of the rose gardens laughing at the fact that all of the rose names sound like drag queens when we discovered a rose called Angela Rippon. Of course it totally makes sense that slightly nerdy rose cultivaters would be crushing on the dulcet-toned BBC newsreader with the famously long legs. She was always my second favourite British newsreader - after Moira Stewart.
We went and had a coffee and a muffin in the lovely little weekend market in one corner of the park, and ouside there was this fun Hallowe'en headless horsewoman and ghost horses giving carriage rides.
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28 Oct 2011
I love that Hickey's Fabrics on Henry St has transgender Jedward Hallowe'en costume mannequins in the window. Does Hickeys know something we don't?
And this creepy window on my street has nothing to do with Hallowe'en at all. That's just the way it is.
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25 Oct 2011
Yesterdays flooding in all it's drama. The clip filmed inside a suddenly engulfed lift is particularly scary. Obviously my thoughts are with the families of the people who died, but also with the people whose homes were flooded. Our own Shirley Temple-Bar's house was flooded and talking to her this morning, it just sounds like it was a really horrible and depressing ordeal.
(via @IrishWeatherOnline)
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