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I suspect she's talking about the pictures you often share, Gary. But she could mean that you are the actual eye candy...

The Love emoticon to that post was for Cookie, not for the musclebound hunk you shared.

As Gary descends to clo's level.... *sigh* Happy Wednesday, bro!

I think that the Brummies still tend to call it their home Brummagen. Certainly most of the ones that I know do.

And do you really think I don't know you by now? Here's something especially for you, clo:

Greetings, young Drew!

To be honest, it doesn't look all that Irish to me... But I'll take your word for it, Albert. (Actually, I was thinking of homemade pizza tonight...)

Great news, clo!

Isn't your rear gate already pinkish? Even when you add a disclaimer at the end of a post, there's always someone like clo who simply will ignore it.

I hope you mean an oil change for the car, and not for yourself? Or are you related to the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz?

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clancy_Brothers The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk music group that developed initially as a part of the American folk music revival. Most popular during the 1960s, they were famed for their Aran jumper sweaters and are widely credited with popularising Irish traditional music in the United States and revitalising it in Ireland, contributing to an Irish folk boom with groups like the Dubliners and the Wolfe Tones. [Ronny Drew, a few of whose songs I have shared with you on here, was also part of the Dubliners.] The Clancy Brothers, Patrick "Paddy" Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy, are known best for their work with Tommy Makem, recording almost two dozen albums together as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Makem left in 1969. ******* From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makem_and_Clancy Makem and Clancy was an Irish folk duo popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The group consisted of Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, who had originally achieved fame as a part of the trailblazing folk group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s. Makem and Clancy sang a combination of traditional Irish music, folks songs from a variety of countries, and newly written pieces, including compositions that Tommy Makem himself wrote. One reporter described their music as "more polished and varied than that used by the Clancy Brothers." Although best known for their albums, concerts, and television programs, Makem and Clancy had three top ten singles in Ireland, including the number one hit, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda." Upon Liam Clancy's death in 2009, Irish broadcaster and writer Shay Healy noted about the group: "America had Elvis, Britain had The Beatles—Ireland had Makem and Clancy." ******* It's possible that, as a duo, Makem and Clancy were better known in Ireland than the rest of the world.

Greetings, young Albert! All good in Albertsville?

Oh, pink looks good on me! Just not too sure about painting my rear gate that colour, though... (Note that I didn't say "back door?")

Probably either grey, green, or brown. Some sort of earthy colour rather than anything too garish. It does looks a bit unsightly, at the moment - it's simply box steel coated with galvanised iron.

Seems a bit quiet in here tonight... And it's now after 12:30 am here, so I think I'll get some shuteye. Good night, everyone! I've been Googling for the past while looking for bare rooted fruit trees - apple trees, maybe a pear and a damson tree, and perhaps some soft fruit (such as blackcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries). Seems I may have to order online for home delivery, due to the Covid restrictions. Anyway, with all this talk of gardening, I'll leave you all tonight with this performance by Makem and Clancy: That was apparently their last ever TV appearance, before they hung up their instruments.

Here's another view of the wall. I walked down the road a bit, to get a shot that also includes the hedge that I want to tidy. The left hand one of the two red doors is actually the front door of the house I was renting for a few years before buying the new old house. You can see one of the chimneys of my new place through the hedge. The ivy-clad cottage behind the car on the right is the empty property whose gable forms part of the boundary of my upper garden. That's the gable I mentioned that I have been considering building a lean-to greenhouse against.

Not really - apart from maybe painting it. I quite like the privacy it provides.

Fingers (and lots else) crossed here, as well.

There's an Irish expression "excira-and-delira" - which basically just means "excited and delighted." I'd say both you and your son are exira-and-delira.

What Albert said.

Here's a view from the outside of my upper garden, showing the ivy that still remains on top of the high stone wall. Most of you will remember that the whole of the top of that wall was overgrown like that a little less than twelve months back. I hope to start clearing that last bit tomorrow. The road used to be a foot or two higher. When the modern old-folks home (which was behind me as I was taking this photograph) was being built about 12 years ago, the road was lowered. Hence the walkway up to the door in the wall leading into my garden.

Stuffed chicken breasts and an as of yet undetermined veggie. Because of the impending Zoom meeting, I raided the freezer for a portion of homemade bolognaise sauce, and boiled some spaghetti. Quick and easy.

And there was me thinking that I might have expressed an interest... Pit hair and freckles... *swoon*

Nah. I'm just Zoombified.