Very Irish Things

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A thread of appreciation of things that only seem to happen in Ireland.

I was away for two weeks and a couple of days after I returned the postman knocked on my door with a big bag of packages ( they were sent from work, only two were very delayed orders). He realised I was away so instead of leaving them and risking theft or damage he stored them for me.

Anyone else any good stories?

Kilkenny has an old Cathedral so it counts as a city , sort of. Anyway it is beautiful and they obviously have good councillors and county engineers who intend to keep it that way. No garish signage etc.

Anyone remember Irel coffee? With chicory essence. It came in a bottle like Yorkshire relish. Gloopy brown liquid. My nan used to occasionally make us coffee. Always milk boiled in a small pot. Loads of sugar. I was quite shocked when I tasted real coffee.

Kilkenny has a city charter which is why it's a city, A cathedral does not make the town or village it sits in a city.

I hate coffee, and quite like the Irel stuff - not sure is it still made.

Oh yeah you can still buy it in Dunnes

I use the Irel to flavour cakes and icing.

The Brits have a similar think called Camp Coffee

I used to stay with a friend who lived in a Rathmines bedsit in the late 80s. What I remember about it was that the hot water tank stood on a plank laid across the bath, and that to take a bath (no shower), you had to insert yourself in at one end and wash yourself with the tank essentially across your midriff, wobbling slightly.

And I wasn’t fussy! Another friend lived in a ‘converted’ garage where the garage door had been bricked over on the outside but not on the inside. You should pulled back a dingy curtain on one wall and saw the inside of the garage door…

You know the little parade at the top of Rathmines Road? I lived behind the old iron mongers (everything from a needle to an anchor) for a year.
Now those shops are hipster delis and artisan butchers…

Blast their hipster delis........

The only thing miss about London - Joe Bloggs Cafes. Where toast with marmalade is actually that- not its constituent parts , with a cube of frozen butter. Same with tea. A nice big mug hot and strong. Maybe some hipster prat can open a greasy spoon caff? Though it will only work if it is ' ironic' ....

They do but I only found out recently you had to pay for the death notice to be read out on the radio ☹️
Sure I thought it was free. Like a “good for the community” thing.
God help my stupidity innocence. 🙄

I was born in London, but my parents were Irish. (Well my dad was born in Tipp, my mum was actually born in London but of Irish parents and was very much Irish to me, she just had a London accent!)

But you made me laugh with the boiled 7up, my dad always did that for a cold, I just thought it was him!

Flat 7up is the cure in our house, more for dodgy tums/vomiting bugs than colds though. Never heard about needing to boil it!

I think the 7Up was boiled to remove the fizz @Kettering

But is it served hot? That’s the bit I’ve never come across before 🤯
Also never heard of it used for colds…

In our house it was cooled. Used gor sick tummies. Flu too I think. Not a cold though.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. I'm 60, it's a long time since I was a kid. I just remember him boiling lemonade when he wasn't well. I can't remember if he drank it hot or cold.

Basically, if you had something that couldn't be cured by flat Seven-up or Sudocreme you might as well just put your affairs in order and compose your soul.

😂

Always brown lemonade when we were sick (boke).

We moved recently and our new house is older and a bit of a weird shape so I bough some standard lamps. Ive spent the last week explaining the difference between putting the light on and the big light on😂Thank God the immersion was removed before we moved in.

I like this get well card 😁
I think it’s from Derry Nice Things.

what's the green leafy thing?

oh - a guess - a dock leaf?

Yes, I’d say so 😁

It's pretty accurate.

Ha, I still have a trauma response to putting the immersion on!