Your Royal Mail parcel from EWFulfilment is on its way

[GimmeAy]

We have your item at Atherstone PSC and it's on its way.

AIBU to be utterly curious as to what this mysterious item is?

The only thing that I can think of that I'm waiting on is a driving licence from Swansea I think. I've googled EWFulfilment and it seems to be a warehouse or distribution centre or something and Atherstone is near Birmingham, but if it was my driving licence, they'd call it a letter rather than a parcel?

Can anyone guess what is winging its way to me please? *Lighthearted.

NI counties yes (just realised 😂)

I think our teachers would have had conniptions if they had to teach us FATDAD. To them, we should have known each individual county's fight for freedom lol. My teachers were very interested in Irish history.

I grew up in 2-channel land but we could get the U.K. channels if we paid for them. We lived in a 'dip', so surrounded by hills. We got our uncle when I was about 10 to collaborate with my DF to climb and put an aerial up about 20 yards high above the roof. All so that we could get BBC so that my Grandad (lived next door) could come to ours every Sunday to watch One Man and His Dog.

I knew Swansea was in Wales - and Birmingham I have a vague notion is sort of North West, so wasn't sure whether they might be close enough over the border.

Maybe it's a map.

bridgetreilly

If I gave you an unlabelled map of Ireland would you be able to point out Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, Athlone, Naas, Leitrim, Roscommon, Cork etc.?
I'm not British and bizarrely we don't learn the geography of the UK in school.

Is Athlone closer to Roscommon or Cork?

RaskolnikovsGarret
A really interesting geography lesson on NI. I’m ashamed to say I literally didn’t know any of that.

And that video is something else - they are so talented.

Today has been rubbish, but this thread has made me feel happy. smile Thank you.

What a lovely message which somehow escaped me yesterday.
Re NI - you don't know what you don't know until someone tells you lol. Honestly, a lot of Irish people get confused sometimes too.

Re the dancing - yes they're very talented. I still remember the fear coming out of one of the spins that you wouldn't end up back in your place. The difference for All Ireland level seems to be in the precision required with holding a square, holding your lines (so that you're directly opposite each other and all equidistant apart. Then your arms must all be at the same level and arms must go up all at the exact same time etc. It's about precision as much as anything else. I was at the All Irelands a couple of years ago (Fleadh, not Scór) and the standard was extraordinary. The costumes are all very fancy these days too. I would say that the standard is probably higher these days than it was 24/25 years ago when I would have won it, but we didn't have any video of it so can't really look back. It's only now when I see my dd competing in the All Irelands that I realise what a big deal it actually was. It's very hard to win an All Ireland. In sport/music/dance etc.

If anyone is actually interested in one of the liveliest weeks of dancing, music, busking and all things Irish, I'd recommend going a weekend of the All-Ireland fleadh - the town it's held in rotates every 2 years, and you'd want to book B&B/hotel or accommodation a year in advance as it gets booked up immediately. Any Irish person who has been to the fleadh can probably vouch for how good of a weekend it is. Pubs are jammed, with live Irish music on the streets/pubs. Great sessions (a session is where anyone with a musical instrument can just join in playing). It was supposed to be in Mullingar this year and next, but was cancelled this year obviously due to Coronavirus. So it will be in Mullingar next year (about 50 miles west of Dublin). If you rented a car you could get accommodation outside Mullingar, but whatever town it's in is always thronged.

Home of Niall Horan Fun fact.

Ye and his Mum lives close to my Mum.
Fun fact - I went to school in Mullingar, but alas I'm old enough to be Niall Horan's Mum, so alas I never met him. He has a house just outside Mullingar though! Probably along with LA and London, but we'll take it!!

And how could you forget Joe Dolan - jeez.......

This is the great Joe - Grown married women would throw their underwear at him - he came out as gay many years later... Cue thousands of Mullingar women bursting into tears. He's dead now but there's a monument of him in the town.

I never knew Joe Dolan came out.

Preston is quite small actually, it only become a city 18 years ago.

I never knew Joe Dolan came out.

Now you have me questioning myself. I'm pretty sure he did in his latter years and had a partner but I'm open to correction on that. It could well be that because he was so loved everyone knew but never made much of it. But I appear to have a memory of being surprised whenever I found out.

It might just have been an open secret, but I'm pretty sure that he had a partner. He owned (his family now own) a pub called Dolans in Mullingar and I'm pretty sure I've heard that he was often sighted there with his presumed partner.

I thought it was ‘open secret’ territory.

Could well have been, but it was well known if it was an open secret.

I remember being about 7 and he was playing in Mullingar. My relatives from New York were over and they were adamant about going. Now my parents wouldn't have been ones for such frivolities as going to see Joe Dolan, but they had to go to entertain our visitors. I remember to this day the envy I had because my second cousin (one of the American folk) got to go and I didn't. She was the same age as me I think about 2 months between us, so it really was a smack in the face - why is Elizabeth allowed to go and I'm not?

As it turns out, I never got to see him live. Love Joe though.

Did you actually receive anything??

I know this is an old post but I had this email today.

I have ordered some imperial candles and this is the delivery method.