Simple Pleasures

[Anvil]

Try googling Zebra Finch, tiny little birds that are sometimes kept as pets or showing over here but are from Australia (and are the only tiny bird I know from that part of the world). 

[Eoin McLove]

It wasn't them. They had a green breast and brown or grey wings with white dots around the tail .

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The occasional 'Screw you Monday!' daytime pint of Guinness. Fuckin' delish.

[Mooncat]

Will be home next weekend for 3 weeks. Planning a trip to Rathlin Island, they have puffins this time of year so they'll be cool to see.


And the biggest simple pleasure of all for me, getting a proper chippy feed and Chinese Takeaway. Chippy sausages particularly just aren't available in Canada, so my trips home are usually a sausage fest  And the Chinese restaurants here are all authentic, rather than the deep-fried chippy versions we have at home. Starving just thinking about it, I gain like a stone in weight every time I'm home. I guess I could add the months of trying to shed that weight each time to the pet peeves thread...

[Eoin McLove]

Chinese with chips is magic and you can't get it outside Ireland.

[The Heretic]

The impending implosion of the England football team....

[The Heretic]

wrong thread

[Mower Liberation Front]

The impending implosion of the England football team....

The "Gareth Southgate puts on a hi-viz jacket to go up his attic stairs" style comments on Twitter are great entertainment this morning.

[Carnage]

What's the inspiration for those memes? I don't follow soccer as it's not a real sport but I'm seeing loads of those for some reason.

[Snare]

Seeing nearly 60 12y.o's being awarded a fáinne this week at a school graduation marking 8 years of learning as Gaeilge 

[astfgyl]

Seeing nearly 60 12y.o's being awarded a fáinne this week at a school graduation marking 8 years of learning as Gaeilge 

Sent all my own lads to the Gaelscoil as well. Still have 2 in it actually. Other than the maths I think it's great.

On a related note, the young fella started speaking to me in Irish the other day and I just answered him without thinking about it. That was a simple pleasure so it was

[Snare]

Sweet 

[Anvil]

Lovely sunny day, sat in the garden all evening under a tree reading and listening to some tunes. 

Even saw a buzzard circling, and a couple of lovely chaffinches. 

[astfgyl]

Had a kestrel living near my old gaff and I used to love seeing it when I was cycling into work for 6 in the morning on the bright days. Birds are cool in general

[astfgyl]

Ooh la la I just found a can when I thought I'd no beer left.

Fuckin unreal