Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13018)

Ireland

Joined myLot 9 years ago

An Irishman who has called many places home, enjoys whiskey in moderation and reads Dostoyevsky frequently.

Fiacre Banks's Responses

Restaurants and Fast Food places.

Judy Story @jstory07 (139717) • Roseburg, Oregon 11h

There are four restaurants here that have closed. There are two more that are in trouble. There are two fast food places that have left. Also there are four that are in trouble. It is all because of the high prices they are...

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Fiacre Banks @jstory07 Same here. As well as putting prices up portion sizes are noticeably smaller. Most restaurants round here are sub standard anyway and I find all fast food outlets a bit icky anyway so I no longer eat out much.

Firing Up The Fireplace this Morning

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (90) • United States 9h

It's 5 am where I live. It's cold. 34F outside. Not sure what the temperature is inside. Hubby and I play a "game" where we don't turn on the furnace until we absolutely have to and the goal is to wait until at least...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville And here’s mine. Heavy snow here but unlikely to lie.

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Did Matt Gaetz really step down?

The Horse @TheHorse (218846) • Walnut Creek, California 21 Nov

I get my news from FOX, MSM, and Lefty websites. I just read on a Lefty website that Trump's absurd pick for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, has stepped down. As you know, Gaetz stepped down from his position in Congress to try and...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse I get my news from the BBC and they concur so it must be approximating to the truth maybe. How careless to start losing people before taking office.

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Might be Getting Some Snow Today

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (90) • United States 21 Nov

If we do get it, which it's forecasted at a 55% chance that we will, it'll be our first snow of the season. It won't stick or accumulate or anything, it'll just be small short snow showers as I understand it. It's currently 38F...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville We got some today. I had to do a grocery shop and remained vertical the entire time as I manoeuvred myself with great circumspection across the icy car park at the supermarket.

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So reliant on the internet!

Fleur @Fleura (30392) • United Kingdom 20 Nov

This week I am away in Wales, and overnight we got 5 inches of snow so given that I am at the end of a narrow stony track you can imagine I’m not going anywhere. I have some jobs to do, but many of them are outdoor jobs which are...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura You don’t know how reliant you are on something till it’s not available. Drug dealers and users know all about that.

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A 12 course table setting

Always smiling @allknowing (136446) • India 20 Nov

The present generation will never know what this is all about and the older generation would have wished such settings goodbye. To think that in the good old days some households had these kind of settings. Having a 12 course...

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Fiacre Banks @allknowing I well remember all the palaver around proper etiquette when dining, with different types of cutlery for everything. Even afternoon tea was quite an occasion and very hard work. Still, there was an elegance to it.

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Today's trip to the big Tesco. (20/11/2024)

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28853) • Lichfield, England 20 Nov

We went to the big Tesco again today. My Mum didn't know if she'd be up for coming but in the end she did and she sat on a bench again while he went round the shop. I got rid of the soft recycle and then we went up on the lift....

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton I went to Lidl this morning. It was just as dismal as Asda although their fresh fruit and veg is fresher. Our snow arrives this evening but it was just a light skiff really. Probably be gone by tomorrow.

20 Nov

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Coffee/Tea Drinker & Adds Ins

Amber @AmbiePam (92719) • United States 20 Nov

A lot of you are coffee or tea drinkers, and maybe some of you are both. How many of you just take your coffee black and your tea plain? Or, do you load these beverages down with a lot of add ins? I’m neither a coffee nor tea...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam No additives for me - both black and sugar free.

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32 Days Until My Next Trip: This Time to India, Nepal, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (90) • United States 20 Nov

It will be my first time visiting any of these four places. I leave on Sunday, December 22nd and won't return until Saturday, January 4th. It's a very long flight to India. First I have to get 1 hour to Chicago. Then 2 hours...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I don’t envy you the long flying hours or the extreme pollution of Delhi’s air. Take a mask. I leave on December for Edinburgh then Manchester. Once I get back the planning for 2025 trips begins in earnest.

20 Nov

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Another chapter ends for us

Judy Evans @JudyEv (340019) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Nov

Some of you would know we’ve taken photos at horse endurance rides for some years now. We have a website and all the photos are uploaded to that and people can purchase any photos they want from it. The website and supporting...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Sad but exciting wondering what the next chapter will be. So good that you both enjoyed that chapter together.

20 Nov

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Winter morning and Coffee

Aparna Sen @Dreamerby (5151) • Calcutta, India 19 Nov

Its really cold today (for me). 20 degree C here I kinda changed my coffee brand. It has a vanilla flavor to it intertwined with the strong coffee flavor. I am liking this new coffee more than the old one. Do you like having...

coffee

winter morning

changed coffee brand

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Fiacre Banks @dreamerby Coffee is the first thing that crosses my lips in the morning. Strong and black.

20 Nov

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A last post about our train trip

Judy Evans @JudyEv (340019) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Nov

Our train ride last Saturday went as far as Etmilyn, eight kilometres from Dwellingup. Etmilyn was a watering point for the steam trains. Lights on the sides of the carriage illuminated the forest through which we travelled. At...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev A train stopped late at night, shunting, lights, weary passengers, mystery - what are you doing to me? I’m away, riding a night train in winter, held up at the border as we cross into Yugoslavia with soldiers searching the carriages looking for a spy.

19 Nov

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Europe On $$$/Day? (Mylot Exclusive #1773)

Greg @xander6464 (44245) • Wapello, Iowa 19 Nov

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own. ----------Arthur Bernard Frommer · Wonderific Wednesday,...

klm royal dutch airlines

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Fiacre Banks @xander6464 Well I suppose the good thing about travel guide books is that they keep the insensate, the incurious and the sheep corralled in one place, out of the way of travellers with a bit of moxie who won’t be told what they must see.

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A Controversial movie

Aparna Sen @Dreamerby (5151) • Calcutta, India 19 Nov

Directed by the famous actor and director,Raj Kapoor (who is actually really famous in Russia), Satyam Shivam Sundaram is a timeless movie kaleidoscoping societal and philosophical views. You have to understand that...

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Fiacre Banks @Dreamerby I haven't seen this one. I'm obviously limited to Indian films made in English or with subtitles. Recently I've re-watched one of my favourites, 36 Chowringhee Lane which I first saw in Paris in 1986. Charulata is another of my favourites.

19 Nov

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Towel Animals Gone Wild

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (90) • United States 19 Nov

You may have heard that when you sail on a cruise ship, the cabin steward will take a towel and fashion it into a cute animal and place it on your bed when he makes up your room. Well last week's cabin steward must have had a...

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville if you came to your cabin a little bit tipsy you might stand for a while trying to figure that one out!

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More about our meal on the train

Judy Evans @JudyEv (340019) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov

I thought I should tell you a bit more about the five-course meal that we had recently on a slow-moving train. The train had three carriages, each with forty people. There were tables of four either side of a passageway with two...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev That sounds like quite a feast. All very Orient Express.

19 Nov

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A Visit to Dracula's Castle

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (90) • United States 19 Nov

Last month I had the opportunity to visit Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania. It's also known as Dracula's Castle as it inspired many of the design's for the castle where Dracula lived in the books and movies and also because...

transylvania

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Fiacre Banks @looeyville I’m hoping for Bucharest in May. Last attempt failed - Paris got in the way.

19 Nov

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Not going shopping because it has SNOWED!

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (28853) • Lichfield, England 19 Nov

I'm not going shopping to the little Tesco today because it has SNOWED! (See picture above.) When I got up this morning and saw the snow on the back garden I was horrified! I don't like snow. It's OK on pictures or on Christmas...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton No snow here thankfully. If you do go out please try very hard to stay upright. I’m sitting in all day waiting for a plumber to come and unblock my toilet. We take it in turns to drive into town to visit cafes with nice facilities and if normal...

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Assume? Or presume?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (340019) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov

I have said quite often in comments that I shouldn’t ‘assume’ so much. Sometimes I’d use ‘presume’ and I got to wondering what the difference was and did it matter. It seems that while both mean to take something for granted,...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev To assume may be to make an ASS out of U and ME, or so I’m told.

18 Nov

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A Conversation With a White Christian Nationalist

celticeagle @celticeagle (166976) • Boise, Idaho 18 Nov

"We will have our daughter ready for you as a virgin". (she has a daughter) One of my favorite YouTube content suppliers did a stream yesterday that both shocked and offended me greatly. He was interviewing a young woman. Her...

subservient

tiktok

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Fiacre Banks @celticeagle Just when we think there might be some glimmer of light we have the rug pulled from under us again. I’d hate to have a subservient wife who is too scared to think for herself. I wonder too how they can use the term Christian - nothing like that in...

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