February 2006

Picture the scene: A brightly lit church hall on a Thursday evening in January. Outside the weather is freezing cold but inside the walls are dripping and the air is thick with the tang of B.O. and talcum powder deodorant. The noise is deafening: Stomp, Stomp, STOMP! Stomp, Stomp, STOMP! Like cows stampeding in time. A voice is screaming above the herd, “One, Two, Three, HOLD! One, Two, Three, HOLD!” while fifty women stamp shoulder to shoulder trying to keep up. Have you stumbled upon the marching practice of the territorial army Special Pudgy Unfit Division? Nope, ‘fraid not, it is instead the Salsa-Slim class I signed up for in the spirit of “Trying New Things and Meeting New People.”

Irish Blog Awards

February 6, 2006 · 4 comments

in Blogging, Ireland

Well slap me sideways I’ve been nominated! I certainly didn’t expect that to happen but it’s made my day. Thanks for whichever one of you did that, haha. I’m down under the Best Photo Blog category and I can’t see me making the cut with the likes of Rymus and North Atlantic Skyline and Redmum [...]