I'm like Ivor

It's nice to be happy, I like being happy :-)

One potato, Two potato, Three potato, Four..........

Five potato, Six Potato............ Im sure you get the gist by now :-)

I have been writing nonsense and spraying these pages with it for several months now and I thought it was about time I posted a sensible piece, something informative, educational, mature and responsible and as a result this post will focus on the Irish potato famine or to give it its correct title the “Great Famine”

As the post develops it will cover not only the causes of the famine (e.g. potato blight) and the subsequent effect this had on the economy and people of Ireland but I will also look at potato dependency in general and ultimately the role the "humble spud" played within the population at the time.

I should point out before I start that the Great Famine of Ireland, although resulting from the humble potato should not be confused with the “Potato War” which was something entirely different.

I think it will allow a more accurate picture of events leading up to the famine to unfold if I...........

Sorry, I have bored myself now.......

Least I’m honest......

That’s not to suggest that either subject is boring (particularly the former) I just don’t think this is the correct forum to explore them, so I won’t.

So, is it a magical city, Birmingham I mean, is Paul Daniels the patron Saint, does Debbie McGhee hold a seat on the local council, well I doubt it no, certainly not in the Birmingham pictured ^^^ up there, it’s in Alabama, (oooooooooooohh excellent, I can make a tenuous link to a classic song) not Sweet Home Alabama ( how incredibly good was the Old Grey Whistle Test), just Alabama.

Why is there a picture of Birmingham Alabama at the start of the post and what does it have to do with Debbi McGhee, well I’m going there, not the Alabama one alas (yet) but the UK one (well its only a few hours away and I can’t think of a better place to go for the week)....(ok I can but I can’t)...(go there I mean, I HAVE to be in the UK one) still it’s not all bad, the place I’m staying at is right near Cadbury World, mmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate :-)

The Debbie McGhee bit, no idea, its lost me totally, I’m going to go and have some toast under beans now, well its better than tickling otters with a stuffed marmoset surely.

Snow Joke

This is a topic that came up in an earlier post LINK and is subsequently being "revisited"







Right, thats the formalities out the way, on with the post..........




I said I would so I am!


Finally cover something in the revisit list I mean.

Well not just anything in the list but the “lemony things” thing, as I said I would in my last post.

So, where to start, well, I absolutely LOVE all things lemony, I really do, cake/pudding/sweet thing wise, mmmmmmm ,lemony :-)

Thank you for listening............

What?

You expected more?

Life can be a bugger sometimes can’t it.

While I’m on the subject of disappointment (lets be honest, as revisit posts go it’s quite a let down) I guess now is an appropriate time to insert something, here goes.............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/alpine_skiing/8521121.stm

(its a link, can you tell, click on it, go on, I dare you, click on it, click on it then press the "full sceen" button)

See, it isn’t only revisit posts that can be a disappointing let down, how do you think she feels, trained for years, the whole world (well bits of it) watching, her family and friends no doubt in the crowd and and and ooooops

No wonder she stayed down for so long, I wouldn’t have rushed to get up either, I’m sure you can see the snow melt around her, not in a ground open up and swallow her (which she desperately wanted I imagine) style, but in a so red with embarrassment my cheeks are melting the snow, way.

Even the commentator at the end of the piece has difficulty stifling a little chuckle, poor thing, her not him, well both, or neither, I don’t know, its not down to me, byeeeeeeeeeeeeee

( ps, how observant of you to notice, I know I only did the "lemony" part of the revisiting and not the "alcohol" part, I will do that another time, maybe)

Have your cake and eat it........ 2 (the return of the sweet stuff)

Well all most sequels have some sort of silly tag line don’t they, they cant be satisfied with just adding a number (2 for example) so I emulated said sequel titles and added my own silly tag line.

Not that this post is a sequel, just the post title (well the first part) the post its related to (this one) has nothing to do with this one at all, well there is one shared element, a picture of a cake, but other than that no similarity at all.

This post would be better associated with this one, after all, they DO share much more of a similarity.

So what is this post about then, we I have already ascertained it is nothing to do with one post (bar the shared picture of a cake) and something more to do with another post.

Shall I tell you, shall I put you me out the misery that this post is undoubtedly brining already, ok then....

ITS THE 5OTH POST

That is all........................




Actually that’s not all, far from it in fact, well it wouldn’t be like me to not aimlessly ramble away a bit would it, so I will.

I’m not going to go on about the whole 50th post thing (far too uninteresting) but I will witter away about some other nonsense for a bit.

When looking for the image for the post (I’m sure I have as much fun doing that as writing them sometimes) I found loads of suitable ones, but couldn’t resist the one I chose as it’s a lemon cake and as previously mentioned I adore anything lemony. It made sense to go with that one because I keep promising I will revisit an old topic and as one of them is all things of a lemon nature, I will make sure (hopefully) the next post that appears here will definitely (hopefully) be a revisit post related to a things of a lemony nature :-)

As a side note and before I finish I guess I should post a link to the purveyor of cakes from whom I stole got the image Venus Cakes, after all I have no wish to be accused of theft, far too much has been said on that topic recently and it's time to move on. Funnily enough (or not depending on your sense of humour) of all the places in the entire world they could be they are actually located not too far from me, small world eh, no, it’s bloomin massive, why do people say that????????????

I’m going to go now before I get started on another annoying topic and no it’s not going on the revisit list, for one the revisit list is getting to big anyway and b (and more importantly)....(see how I mixed my listings then, annoying isn’t it) a post that tried to cover why people say certain things, like “ its a small world” would be almost endless and 3 (got to keep mixing those listing styles) I have already posted something of a similar (in a loose association styleeee innit) nature anyway, more than once.

When is a post not a post...........

Post 1:

I was initially going to publish (ooh get me, publishing lol) I mean “put up on this ere site” a very short post along the lines of..... I was going to post tonight as I really fancied it but don’t feel particularly inspired or artistic? (as if) so I probably wont......... and leave it at that, but...

Post 2:

Whenever I post anything I like to find an accompanying image, quite often not something that could be associated immediately with the post title or content, but if you dig deep enough there invariably IS a link, somewhere, sometimes incredibly obvious, more often than not rather bizarre and abstract but it’s always there.

So I sought to find an image to accompany my very brief and incredibly short post that said.... “I was going to post tonight as I really fancied it but don’t feel particularly inspired or artistic? (as if) so I probably wont”..... as that is what I had planned for my original short and very brief post.

Post 3:

My search criteria for said image was indifference, it seemed appropriate, given the vagueness and lack of inspiration or artistic? (as if) foundation that the post was built on, so I typed in said word (indifference) and ploughed through the images that I was presented with. I often look for pages and ages (yes I know what I said there and no it wasn’t a typo) to find a “suitable” image, however, due to my lackadaisical approach to the post and planned briefness and even indifference, I didn’t do that this time, preferring to settle for a 2 page limit, you cant beat a 2 page limit, especially when you are feeling indifferent or lackadaisical.

Post 4:

Its not actually post 4, just like the previous three haven’t been post’s 1 2 and 3, I don’t know why I said it, I’m sorry, I think it was an indifference thing going on, it really is just one post, I wont pretend otherwise.....

Anyway, I looked for a suitable “indifferent” image and found this one first ...................................................

The image appeared before the one I actually used and I was very tempted to use it, as the "lead image" not only for its title “deliberate indifference” I mean indifference itself is good (for a post like this) but deliberate indifference, well, that’s even better surely, but also because the image itself, with the shadows etc is very good, it works, on many levels, but I didn’t, use it I mean, but then you know that, you have seen the one I did.

Post 5: aka final post, last post, il endo (sorry, watching The Godfather as I write this lol)...(although that probably sounds more Hispanic than Italian, but then I was never good at languages at school, struggle with English to be honest, innit)

Anyroad up, the image I plumped on was the one you see, like it or loathe it matters not to me, its there for reasons I can’t explain, its an image that’s embedded, an image ingrained, if the image you see, is one you like, well, that’s good then isn’t it.

Post 6: (I lied, 5 wasn’t the last one)

I normally spoil you with links and further information about things included or mentioned within a post, but not this time, if you want to know more about Frank Wu (I know I do, actually, I do already, well it was inevitable that I was going to look wasn’t it, I’m just choosing not to share on this occasion, I know, horrid aren’t I lol) or about Chris Wehner, then I suggest you go find out and if you can be bothered feedback to me, if not, well, its not important in the grand scheme of things is it lol, now leave me in peace to watch my film, thank you.

I havent forgotten I said I would revisit an old topic soon either, patience..............