Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
Ireland
Joined myLot 9 years ago
An Irishman who has called many places home, enjoys whiskey in moderation and reads Dostoyevsky frequently.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
30 May
I'm not really sure what got me thinking about which of my possessions I most prize - it must be something to do with having to get rid of so much now that I live in a much smaller house than heretofore.
But thinking about it I...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
29 May
I have often bemoaned the poor standard of restaurant food in my little contributions here, and have long pondered why those standards have fallen. Have you noticed this?
Excuses put forward are Covid, Brexit, Ukraine, Trump, but...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
29 May
Today I had to register to vote since I’ve changed my address since the last election. I noted on the information page that it is necessary to re-register if you have changed address, name or date of birth - I get the first two,...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
28 May
Last week in the company of friends we were discussing cafes. We were mostly quite offended by the coffee house chains which really are quite dreadful. One lady particularly objected to being asked her name in Starbucks and the...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
23 May
Tonight we dined once again in the Wet Knicker restaurant and thankfully none of the staff seemed to remember us, and we made a point of taking our underwear home with us when we left.
Food was awful but what I liked was hearing...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
23 May
So I’m in Donegal sitting in sunshine and with wind blowing my hair. Our little cottage is two sand dunes away from the airport which is nothing more than a strip of tarmac running along beside the beach, and it handles one flight...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
13 Sep
Autumn 1986, Rue Daguerre at dusk at the end of a cold November. Chestnuts roasting on a brazier at the street corner, currents of warm air swirling from the doors of bakeries, bars and the stairwell down to the metro, all with...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
11 Sep
If only Peaches had listened things would have turned out so differently, but she was always so headstrong and hadn’t much sense of danger. There was no telling her, she always took things too far, right to the edge, and this time...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
11 Sep
I came across it yesterday, almost the same colour as the sand it was lying on, and so beautiful. I was walking along the top of the dunes, parallel to the shore and heading north. All my attention was given to boats on the water...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
10 Sep
Well there’s not a lot to say really, certainly nothing of any great interest. And yet here I am writing away on my phone that really needs to be replaced because like me it’s getting all and bit are falling off it.
I’ll replace...
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