lol, hey - me and that wee orange google guy don't get along so well. Not to worry Patti, plenty of other places to do that kind of trade! lol.
Yeah, I remember being surprised to see a co-op funeral parlour in an English city. Here in Belfast, a co-op store has always just been for bread, milk, chocolate bars, magazines, tin of pears and all that kinda stuff. So I found a co-op funeral parlour pretty amusing in a morbid sort of way. Wondering if they do a loyalty card.... lol
Indeed, the old ways of life here before the Invasion of Spar, Centra and Mace. I can report that Castlebar still has a village post office - you know, not one as part of one of those mini-supermarkets. We lost our village post office in Finaghy here about, oh, I'd say 7 years ago. The post office is now in a great big local garage which is open 24/7 the whole year round.
Mobile phone photographs taken around Castlebar where Jethro Tull came to play on Sunday 20th March 2011. One of the best Tull shows I have ever seen.
I'll call this one - Heavy Windows.
Where blonde assistants fully fashioned a world made of dummies,
The Gardai Station and Aerial Telescope for picking up alien messages. This all is at the edge of a big wedge of grass and right beside the pleasant b&b where I stayed for a couple of nights, Rose Cottage,
STACKS bar - I did most of my drinking in here. Nice place, friendly.
Inside STACKS bar, my pint on the central time-rotor of my imaginary TARDIS....the more I drink the faster I zip forward to the future and all the great things to look forward to! lol.
Another Harry's Bar, this one called Bungalow Bar,
Now... I was going to eat at this Indian but they left an L out of the name. TULLSI, yep, great! - "I'll make an reservation at for 8pm - table for two please, me and my imaginary girlfriend." "TULSI, fcuk off! What, just one L? We won't be coming." Come on, make more of an effort guys. You could have added an L for Ian and the lads coming to town! Eh?
Tulsi front door. Actually, I just looked tulsi up on the internet. It seems they are a UK chain of vegetarian Indian restaurants. So much for curried cobra then. lol. They do have a nice little image of a tree growing on their website, so they can't be all bad. lol
www.tulsirestaurant.co.uk/A bookshop.
A section of the information board,
A dog called Pepsi who lives at Rose Cottage where I stayed. Pepsi was very nice.
A photograph of an old photograph of Castlebar,
Water canal thing and pipe - after a few pints of Guinness I was standing there and a leprechaun appeared in my mind and said that Ian and Martin had arrived during the night...basically, see that pipe...well, wee Michael the Leprechaun informed me that Ian and Martin had installed a small robot device to deliver copies of un-released songs to a selected number of people who lived in Castlebar - these cd's were being delivered via that pipe. Oh, apparently 'Dinosaur' (an unreleased track from the 'Broadsword and the Beast' sessions) was on the cd. I didn't believe him. Do you?
Church,