Unlocking Ireland - thread uimhir a seacht!

[LifeInAHamsterWheel]

A shiny new thread for us all to talk pure shite whilst we wait for lockdown to end

It might be known by some other names. If you can give us the gist of the card game we might know it SecondRow?

To the poster whose name I've forgotten and I'm going to lose what I've written if I go back a page to find you with the picture of the tree at Fore. Yes, that looks familiar! Though I don't think that's the tree that won't burn. That's an unassuming sort of stump thing. Or is it a tree with three legs? Jaysis, I've gone daft altogether. The curse of the Lord on these painkillers. My memory is honest to jaysis gone to fuck. I can't remember what I'm talking about from one minute to the next.

Well I'm blaming it on the painkillers anyway. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

What's worse is that I can't remember when I've last taken one, so I'm not sure whether I'm due one or whether I took it 6 hours ago lol. Fun times.

I read the link about an hour ago and now I can't remember whether it's a tree that won't burn or a tree with three legs. Can you see how I've gone a little mental? I think it's time for more painkillers lol. Before I go clean mental mad altogether. FFS. Anyway, yes, if you've been, did your children enjoy the magic of it? I think when they're young and you pretend you believe (although, touch wood, I was not going to doubt anything just in case), they really get into it.

I think you mentioned a blessed well there too. Supposed to have a cure for warts I hate that word so had to cross it out. Not sure what else it cures. We got all the gossip from the pub landlady. And now for pronunciation for yis! It's the Church of St. Fechin! Heehee We honestly didn't know ourselves how to pronounce it until the landlady told us.

www.pronouncekiwi.com/St.%20Fechin

In looking up some reference material to educate you lot of uneducated louts, I came across this. I'm honestly not joking. Click on the pronunciation at the top of the list for English pronunciation. Of course my uncouth neanderthals were more amused by whether they were allowed to call him Saint Feckin (until we learned how) than they were by any reverance to his heavenly prowess. Actually, It's all coming back to me now, did one of them live as a monk alone in the little chapel thing or something for 50 years? Could have been St. Fechin himself!

We are well behind just finished series 2 of LOD.

I kept finishing Ted's sentences last night.

The first one was Mother of God

Second I can't remember

And then he barked an order , left a heartbeat of a pause and I said Noiw.....and then he said it , DH was mildly amused.

Oh I envy you @FinallyFluid I'd love to be watching from the start!

A great line up of telly tonight - as well as LOD don't forget the new series of Reeling in the Years starts tonight at 8:30pm on RTE! A whole new series starting with the year 2010! I love this programme

@Therewereroses

It's the same tree this is from the information plaque.

"This is a holy well and in the last century stations were performed here on St. Feichin's day 2 January on St. John's day. 29 Junne, and on St Peter's day 29 June. There was an ash tree with three branches growing over the well and it was -and still is - the custom for visitors to drive a coin edgeways Into the bark. This may have been injurious to the tree which is now dead, but the single surviving branch still exhibits a good section of coinage. It is said that the wood from the tree will not burn, and the water from the well will never boil. The water was taken as a cure for headache and toothache."

There was a programme about holy wells, I can't remember if it was John Creedon, where they tested various samples of well water and the chemical composition had elements that would be beneficial to different body parts corresponding to what it was traditionally supposed to cure!

Thanks for the reminder about RITY @LifeInAHamsterWheel. DS2 loves it.

@JaneJeffer

There was a programme about holy wells, I can't remember if it was John Creedon, where they tested various samples of well water and the chemical composition had elements that would be beneficial to different body parts corresponding to what it was traditionally supposed to cure!

I broke my leg very badly when I was a student, had surgery and when I was still on crutches, went to visit friends in Carlow, and a bunch of us spent most of a day driving around in someone's tiny rattletrap car looking for a long-lost holy well someone's granny remembered doing patterns at that specialised in leg ailments. We were literally stopping old people on the road and asking if they knew it. It was nowhere near any road, so I ended up being half-carried across a field and through a wood. We then had a fight it was getting dark at this stage about whether to say a decade of the rosary or drink the water or dip in my leg or all of the above. I don't think I'd ever laughed so much.

(I think this was after I'd refused to have my leg seen by one of those bonesetter aul fellas with the 'cure', where you'd be queuing in the yard between a lame horse and a greyhound with eye troubles.)

I don't know who asked.... in Trim at the moment it's just a nice walk around the porch fields, and down by the river. Castle closed at the moment. Get gorgeous ice cream at Souhans garage.
Great walks around Fore and also Mullaghmeen, you can get to it through Castlepollard. Killua Castle is another one.
If your near Navan you can do the ramparts. In Kells there is Girley bog.

Lots of good walks in the general area around where I live, sure it's only up the road .

Did it cure you @Coving ?

After the chat about wells I saw Simon Harris had posted a bit of Seamus Heaney yesterday!

@JaneJeffer

Did it cure you *@Coving* ?

After the chat about wells I saw Simon Harris had posted a bit of Seamus Heaney yesterday!

I'm grand altogether, and in fact married to the man who saved me in the original accident.

Aww that's lovely.

These threads are moving fast!

Have my 7yo all packed and ready to go back to school tomorrow. Had to give him another DIY haircut but it turned out ok.

Im finding the weather so odd. Had the kids out for a walk yesterday and it started snowing. Then today was lovely again.

We loved Bunratty castle when we visited - lots to see and do there

@JaneJeffer

Did it cure you *@Coving* ?

After the chat about wells I saw Simon Harris had posted a bit of Seamus Heaney yesterday!

I remember hearing Biden quoting the first verse of that poem during one of his rallies, he is a big fan of lrish poetry, and thinking how lovely it was.

My nine year old won’t let me near him with a scissors. He says two of his friends cried after their mammies went at their hair. He hasn’t had a cut since November and has a big, mad surfer mop these days — I suspect he secretly fancies himself rotten.

This thread is Galloping away on me. Is anyone else watching Them. It's an amazon prime thing. It's very strange, have no idea what's going on.

@Therewereroses

I said something out loud once unknown to myself. It came out and I hadn't intended to say it out loud. It just came out. My boss was saying 'So, I've organised a client meeting to discuss the progress we've made up until this point and to outline that I've done x, y and z'. Well out it came. 'You did in your hole'. Then I wondered where I could wind my neck back into. He just sort of swivelled and looked at me and laughed and said 'say that again! haha, that's funny, I did do those things!' He was used to my Mrs Bucket accent of course. I just said, oh it's just an Irish thing. He then went on to explain to me that he had in fact done all the things that he hadn't done. It was funny actually. Still my best work reference he is. Anything on my reference, have I done it? I have in me hole. I still depend on him years later.

I’m choking laughing at this 😂😂😂

@Coving I'm glad you had a happy ending..

As a kid I ran all around Trim castle, it was mostly a ruin then.

My grandfather brought me to the pub, gave me money for minerAls & got a big pissed. He got me to drive him home from age about 9. He had a mini even though he was 6’6

Getting the pencil case ready for tomorrow and a couple more things which I think are only said here - 'topper' and 'markers'. I lived in England for a few years as a child and these were always 'sharpener' and 'felt tips' over there.

@Coving

My nine year old won’t let me near him with a scissors. He says two of his friends cried after their mammies went at their hair. He hasn’t had a cut since November and has a big, mad surfer mop these days — I suspect he secretly fancies himself rotten.

They seem to love the masses of hair on top these days and long fringes.

My 7yo is pretty trusting to be fair but I think mostly me doing a scissors cut was just more desirable to him than having a razor shave from his dad.