Best to get out of the country now mate.
Best to get out of the country now mate.[/QUOTE]
It’s all right, i’ve learnt from the past and diversified. The lettuce and scallions are fine.
Why didn’t you spray them?
Cos i’m a fucking eejit. First time growing them and figured that blight not find a small patch on the fingal riviera. Turns out the salty air is no protection.
:oops:
That’s admirable honesty right there…
Salt preventing blight… ??
Another urbanite mugged off good and proper. 
[QUOTE=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 989380, member: 686”]That’s admirable honesty right there…
Salt preventing blight… ??
Another urbanite mugged off good and proper. [/QUOTE]
Nothing to do with my urbanicity and more to do with my belief that the sea air or a swim in the sea cures most things.
Unless you’re Steve irwin.
Before I left for Australia one of the things I vowed to make sure to pack was my splendid 1983 Dublin shirt, memorably worn in the Lark by the Lee and by the Defiant Dozen/Twelve Apostles.
After going through two different places of accommodation, when I arrived at my third and final place of accommodation I realised that I was no longer in possession of the jersey.
This annoyed me greatly as the jersey is no longer in production and unlikely to be available to buy ever again.
I trekked across Sydney twice to both previous places of accommodation to see if I’d left it in either, each time without success, so despite my paranoid efforts to about losing any possessions in my time away, I accepted that I had failed in this quest and gave the jersey up as lost.
Then I arrived home yesterday to find the jersey had been lying neatly folded on my bed all along.
A simple message of inquiry home would have eliminated all of that inconvenience. :rolleyes:
Cleverness.
your trip to oz sounds horrible and you shamed the Oirish
Plenty of the Oirish over there are very good at doing that themselves and don’t need any help in that regard, mate.
[QUOTE=“The Scouse Cafu, post: 989421, member: 2660”]Before I left for Australia one of the things I vowed to make sure to pack was my splendid 1983 Dublin shirt, memorably worn in the Lark by the Lee and by the Defiant Dozen/Twelve Apostles.
After going through two different places of accommodation, when I arrived at my third and final place of accommodation I realised that I was no longer in possession of the jersey.
This annoyed me greatly as the jersey is no longer in production and unlikely to be available to buy ever again.
I trekked across Sydney twice to both previous places of accommodation to see if I’d left it in either, each time without success, so despite my paranoid efforts to about losing any possessions in my time away, I accepted that I had failed in this quest and gave the jersey up as lost.
Then I arrived home yesterday to find the jersey had been lying neatly folded on my bed all along.
A simple message of inquiry home would have eliminated all of that inconvenience. :rolleyes:
Cleverness.[/QUOTE]
did you not have another story about thinking you lost a Dublin jersey but it was actually at home too? Maybe that should be your first port of call when you lose things!
[QUOTE=“The Scouse Cafu, post: 989421, member: 2660”]Before I left for Australia one of the things I vowed to make sure to pack was my splendid 1983 Dublin shirt, memorably worn in the Lark by the Lee and by the Defiant Dozen/Twelve Apostles.
After going through two different places of accommodation, when I arrived at my third and final place of accommodation I realised that I was no longer in possession of the jersey.
This annoyed me greatly as the jersey is no longer in production and unlikely to be available to buy ever again.
I trekked across Sydney twice to both previous places of accommodation to see if I’d left it in either, each time without success, so despite my paranoid efforts to about losing any possessions in my time away, I accepted that I had failed in this quest and gave the jersey up as lost.
Then I arrived home yesterday to find the jersey had been lying neatly folded on my bed all along.
A simple message of inquiry home would have eliminated all of that inconvenience. :rolleyes:
Cleverness.[/QUOTE]
I’d say the Dublin jersey had a better two weeks than you did.
I did indeed.
The playing surface at The California Memorial Stadium. Proper wrong.
the wealth that appears to be accumulated by bit part footballers in England
Football must be unique in that truly elite players salaries seem to be linked to lesser players salaries so that the salaries earned by Ronaldo, Rooney, Suarez, Gerrard, Terry, Lampard who play for a Big Four club translate in some pro rata way into proportionately high salaries in lesser clubs. In other industries and sports that is not really the case.
Case in point is Jamie O’Hara who is currently in the news for allegedly messing about on the missus and despite playing on average 15 first team games a season over his entire career much of what has been at clubs such as Portsmouth and Wolves is a multi-millionaire who should never have to work again
Is financial success at football now the same as medals and trophies and international caps for most players who go into it? For most players who get to a certain level they have in effect succeeded because they are financially set up even if they never win a trophy or a medal or play in the Champions League.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 991034, member: 2272”]the wealth that appears to be accumulated by bit part footballers in England
Football must be unique in that truly elite players salaries seem to be linked to lesser players salaries so that the salaries earned by Ronaldo, Rooney, Suarez, Gerrard, Terry, Lampard who play for a Big Four club translate in some pro rata way into proportionately high salaries in lesser clubs. In other industries and sports that is not really the case.
Case in point is Jamie O’Hara who is currently in the news for allegedly messing about on the missus and despite playing on average 15 first team games a season over his entire career much of what has been at clubs such as Portsmouth and Wolves is a multi-millionaire who should never have to work again
Is financial success at football now the same as medals and trophies and international caps for most players who go into it? For most players who get to a certain level they have in effect succeeded because they are financially set up even if they never win a trophy or a medal or play in the Champions League.[/QUOTE]
I’d say its because even to make it to O’Haras level is very hard given the 100s of millions if not billions of people who play the sport. What team sports are you comparing it to?
Yes no doubt but it seems other sports have marquee players and then water carriers and the water carriers earnings are a fraction of the marquee stars.
Roy Keane touched on this last week when he said players now are satisfied once they sign first decent contract as for most of them that is success and why kill yourself when you are a millionaire at 21.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 991038, member: 2272”]Yes no doubt but it seems other sports have marquee players and then water carriers and the water carriers earnings are a fraction of the marquee stars.
Roy Keane touched on this last week when he said players now are satisfied once they sign first decent contract as for most of them that is success and why kill yourself when you are a millionaire at 21.[/QUOTE]
What other sports though? Soccer is still very much a team game one man can’t make all that much difference unlike basketball or American football. Surely O’Haras wages were a small fraction of messi etc it’s just that this is also quite high. I’d say the same thing with getting comfortable being mediocre on relatively large money happens in all big sports these days.
Lloyds have been fined £218m for their role in the Libor rigging scandal. That’ll teach them.