On a slightly lighter note, I went into the kitchen this morning and the lad was gaffer taping his shoes together for school.
âYou canât go into school in themâ
âIâve nothing elseâ
âWhy didnât you say anything?â
Iâve only two weeks of school left now, no point in getting new ones"
âI presume youâre going back next year?â
Shrug.
âYour mam will go ballistic when she sees thatâ
Shrug
âYou need new school shoesâ
âCan I get runners instead?â
âNo, and how long have they been like that?â
âIâve been walking on the edge of my feet for two weeksâ
And off he goes, out into the deluge, like Charlie Chaplin with his shoes all gaffer taped up with brown gaffer tape on black shoes, without a care in the world.
Resourceful chap, gotta respect it
Not a lot wrong with that, I find that admirable carry on in a young man⌠resourceful, frugal, problem solver, gets on with it. He should be held up as an inspiration for more of his generation.
Thatâs the Paddy in him 
Heâs tan contemporaries will be straightening their hair and waxing their chests and adorning the latest fashionable attire. Paddy nonchalantly rocks up in whatever he can muster together that smells semi clean.
Is this the chap that wore the same underpants for two weeks?
The very same.
Not a fcuking bother on him.
Somehow this shoe business will end up being my fault
go buy him black gaffa tape and then buy new shoes later on.
sheâll never know
Thatâs cos it is. The Italian side of his genes are mortified.
The Eir monthly âŹ5.99 email address charge has gone up to âŹ10.
why would you pay for that service and secondly why would you pay eir for any service?
Donno, just saw it on Boards. Iâm well gone myself.
Theyâve some people, mainly older folks, trapped. Theyâre used to and familiar with eircom address, change is techo-fear. Others might have integrated as small business email (zeboscockshots@eircom.net) integrated on marketing collateral.
Theyâll squeeze whatever they can out of em until price or common sense kicks in
New shoes bought.
Eejit is delighted.
âIâll have dry feet! Iâd to ring my socks out in maths yesterday and put jacks roll in my shoesâ
Itâs like something out of a Dickens novel.
I honestly had no idea. One of his friends offered to lend him an old pair last week he just volunteered.
God help the poor chap when the time comes to upload his suunto activities to strava
Flattys young lad is like the main character in Joseph plunketts short story âweep for our prideâ.
wring
He definitely said ring