january sales...

Got to meet with the great Owen Kelly again on this trip

An absolute bargain!

culinary confectionary experimentation

It was one of those "it made sense at the time" kind of snacks

It then got upgraded to smarties......

Fionn endorsed all of this....

Then it all converged magnificantly

Finally

Finally Jane gets to meet Gosia

Here we all are where Gosia works for a quick hello. Owen looking slightly charred from a mcdonalds big mac incendry incident earlier that morning......

upgrades.....

(a photo of my old phone on my new phone, ...eh.........on my old phone....)
Yes, upgraded from an N95 8gig to an N85 over the hols. All the same features PLUS better battery life and an FM transmitter. 88.2 Charlie FM here we go!

let it snow

What a way to break in the new year. At approx 8pm where we were in dublin it started to snow, this is the view at 1150pm

and ths was the aftermath. We were the first on the snow, I can imagine how moms in the area were telling their kids "no no no, its too late for snowball fights, it'll all still be there tomorrow". Poor saps.


Here was our outdoor fridge, good thinking Shaft!

Here I am with Kate and Eimear Hearne and Feargals breath.

enguard....

Extensive research on new years eve has proven that the sword is mightier than the pen

Hanky plays the hits

Ice ice baby.....

I dont have many wedding snaps as I was best manning it for the day, but I did manage to get a photo of papa Frost and his bundle of joy. In his other hand is is daughter Ida (there is a fada over the I but I cant find it on this ozzie laptop, so tis pronounced eeeda) born on the 25th of december. Welcome to Earth, Ida Frost.

First post of 2010

Well, firstly HAPPY NEW YEAR, tis been a while since I have posted anything, all due to a variety of seasonal and festive reasons, but most noteworthy was a quick trip back to the motherland for Monica and Fionn's wedding.


Here they are about 4 seconds married.

The wedding was waaaaaay up north near Kilteel, Monica's hometown, which has subsequentially been renamed 'Flynnland'

Here is Cillian, Fionns brother, getting the partywagon ready.

Gigbag

It finally arrived, my yamaha gigbag

Its a softcase for a violin, light, waterproof and reasonable solid

The bow has a seperate compartment on the outside

Here is all the gear necessary for going through a PA system

I trialled it last night at two gigs, its really quick to pack and not heavy at all.

Happy 70th George!

Here is the G-man blowing out the candles on his foot and a half long birthday apple stroodle, a delicacy here in Perth

All done in one puff

And check out the extreme levels of decadence which have descended on life here in Perth as Pat enjoys mid-day stroodle with a glass of middleton VERY rare. Chin chin. More birthday shenaniganarry can be found on moms blog here

what are the odds!!!!

So, there we were, heading into town for a few hours, havent been in town in nearly a year and a half, parked in a carpark i never parked in before, heading into the city centre, as soon as we walked outside i noticed a really big screen across the road, guess who was on it????? ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and the rest of the cork pops orchestra)

Yup, it was a 20000000inch LCD screen displaying the entire tommy fleming gig we did about 6 years ago

Here is Tommy entertaining the public of perth

Look here, you can even see Gerry Kellys cello, im sitting behind him in this shot.

WHAT ARE THE ODDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raaaaaarrr

We took Finn to the museum to se the dinosaur exhibit yesterday, it was fantastic!


An allosaurus greeted us in reception. They were all animatronic and moved and roared away like mad.

Triceratops complete with baby triceratops hatchlings

And Finns favourite dinosaur the Stegasauras.

Ola blogfans

Hello bloggers, sorry its been a while, these last few weeks at school were hectic. On holidays now so you can expect more activity here.

Check this out, i ended up doing a few keyboard gigs this term, here is a photo of me playing with the junior concert band, the tuba player just got braced in that day and couldnt play so I ended up playing the bass part on a keyboard. It was even easier than playing the viola! Only one hand, 4 different notes and no dynamics!

And check out this bottle of wine I got as a gift, I think its an electrical conductor as he has two electrodes (batons)......