Where's the hot press?

[MaisieDotes]

So we've been given Craicnet!

Should we ask to change to the Hot Press or just roll with this?

Anyway- we have our own spot!

Aunty Nellies sweet shops in Cork have all the sweets from the 80's. I can't walk passed it. Especially love these:

Anyone else have RIP.ie bookmarked?

Just me, then??

But seriously - its fierce handy for finding out the arrangements!

You can still get salt and vinegar King crisps! They haven't disappeared, and they're still better than Tayto salt and vinegar.

Salt and vinegar mini chips though - they were the best. So intensely sour I still salivate when remembering them...mmm. Haven't had any in years so not sure if they're still as good.

Gets cosy beside Annarose2014

I'm the one who cheerily opened up the IT at breakfast the day before my wedding and said "Better check there's no removal getting in the way of the rehearsal this evening!"

There was

Speaking of weddings - fecking Child of Prague totally screwed me over! Lashed all day!

Bastard!

Hurrah! Isn't this grand.

I. Want. Rancheros.
And mint crisp.
And you can't get bloody oxtail soup in Australia. Stupid mad cow disease.

Who did mass?

Is it in the glory hole?

I. Want. Rancheros.

droool

Do they still make them? I want them now. I fecking loved Rancheros.

Do people still put the Child of Prague outdoors overnight for a fine day? The last time my mother did - admittedly about twenty five years ago - ours fell over and the head smashed off (and it lashed, not surprisingly). It went back to living in my parents' bedroom with the head glued back on - in fact, I think it was there, staring, when we were all conceived, because it was a pretty fucking weird wedding present.

I sent my mother a postcard of the actual Child of Prague when I was in Prague interrailing in 1993, and it turned out my mother didn't know it was a statue of Jesus in fancy gear. She thought it was some random Czech saint in a crown.

My parents don't trust RIP.ie - they fear it will miss out local funerals, so pay some kind of subscription to the local paper for proper 'The Deaths' website access.

Statue of Prague out in force for weddings around here Flat

You can still buy Racheros. Tesco do multi packs anyway.

I used to love Fun Yuns back in the day. Id go to the shop next door on a Saturday morning with my 20p pocket money. Fun Yuns, Big Time Bar. Toffee mouse and the rest in jellies.

it was a statue of Jesus in fancy gear.

What.

Is it not a saint?

So it was just Jesus organising the weather for weddings all along? No wonder it never works! I'm sure he's got a lot of other stuff on.

Maisie, are you my mother?

not unless you're 15 flattened

Every house in Ireland has a child of Prague (pronounced prayge) with a glued on head.

Child of Prague definitely not Jesus in a get up and I even have my own ( gay grooms man traipsed miles in Prague to buy one as surprise for me :)

God salt and vinegar mini chips, feck you anyway. Am early days pregnant and now I want these!!! Husband not fussed about running for things on my every whim this time :(

TK Red Lemonade...obv yumm here!

SPAR opposite Coombe sells all those yummy old sweets

Sorry had to nudge in there with a Christmas ear worm (forgive me father)
"Penneys, got a whole lot of things for Christmas, got a lot for the family...got a lot of...." Altogether now!

So who is the child of Prague then?

I always thought he was in the same bracket as the Fatima people but, the thing is, I never listened in Religious Knowledge.

Just baby Jesus in fancy clothes. The fancy clothes were some kind of Spanish imperial tradition - apparently the statue is Spanish and arrived in Prague during some bit of Hapsburg/Bohemia jiggery-pokery and intermarriage na blianta o shin.

According to Wikipedia, the Pope gave him a new fur coat in 2009 .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague

But it's more fun to think of him as an Irish weather gnome, anyway.

Thanks GlamorousGlitter.
It's great to have our own little corner.

Every house in Ireland has a child of Prague (pronounced prayge) with a glued on head

Ours was missing his orb thingy.

Child of Prague definitely not Jesus in a get up and I even have my own

He definitely is! He's an Eastern European city clicking Jesus.

city slicking even!