The Sub tropics in Cork

Garnish Island is a very small and wonderful sub tropical island that is situated ten minutes by boat from Glengarriff in West Cork. It is a little taste of paradise in the west, it doesn't have palm trees but it does have Italian gardens, crazy looking trees, flowers that look like Degas dancers, a tarzan type tree, a clock tower and the oddest stone toadstools. All these lovely species survive thanks to the fraction of the gulf stream that decided to flow into the lovely Bluepool shores. The island is totally uninhabited by common folk, it is only open to day visitors, the gardners and the animals that also decide to drop by. The best bit is the short journey out to the island because all the rocks on the way out are dotted by blubbery seals basking in the sunshine.

Hair today gone tommorow

I saw this hair sculpture exhibited at the Rendez Vous showroom in Paris.

The local fridge

This is a very old fridge from a very old pub called Ma Murphy's.The pub still retains all its original characteristics including this fridge. That fridge has had some life and it still works like a dream I'm told.

Puntastic

Sure there is nothing like having an ole mallow in Mallow.Oh snowballs.....coconut,chocolate and a mallow centre. Bliss with a cup of tea.

Flashdance Fever

I want to become a dancer when I watch this video. That movie just does something to my brain, it's a classic.What a great tune, it makes me just want to put on my spandex leotard and jump about like a lunatic.Once at a karaoke hen party myself and a mate got a little carried away and sang What a Feeling, but not only did we sing, we danced,we gyrated, we wore headbands...Needless to say you could hear a pin drop in the room as we finished,it was like that Father Ted moment where you can hear their shoes walking off the stage.There have been many more Flashdance moments since but I won't even begin to get into them, lets just say there was a couple of jugs of water involved.