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Velvet Strand aka Portmarnock Beach and the sea were beautiful yesterday. As always, it never fails to lift my spirits. People were in swimming, and shrieking with joy as they were doing so. It helps to stave off the cold as screeching loudly takes the attention away from freezing limbs.

Lambay Island is close by, and Howth, flanked by Ireland’s Eye is off in the not too far distance to complete the magnificent view.

Buzz and Finn were up to their usual antics. Finn running around like his ass was on fire and currying affectionate favors with every willing stranger.      Giving me bad press as it may appear he doesn’t get enough attention at home, when he is in fact a cuddle monster. Buzz was forever checking on my whereabouts and was never too far away. My furry security guard.

A seagull took a liking to me and was walking by my side for around 50 yards.    It was so cute and random. I could only imagine that an onlooker might think that it resembled me taking the sea gull for a walk. Or perhaps the other way around.

I was thinking the other day as I gazed at a pigeon that if class system did exist amongst birds that maybe the seagulls would be the royal navy and the pigeons would be the marines. I must give up this thinking lark during this lock down as it’s not doing me any favors.

 

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Adele

 

 

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/594909/Baby-feet-legs-nap-penis

‘There’s really nothing quite so sweet as tiny little baby feet’.

The attached photo makes me smile. Anything smutty does. It is quite shocking at first, until you realize that it is a mother cradling a baby with the baby’s feet representing a rather questionable optical illusion.  It was quite the viral sensation back in 2015.   The poor mother must have been mortified when it was published. Although at least her identity is (almost) protected.

My most favorite viral sensation of 2020 was ‘Mabel and Olive’ by Andrew Cotter. Particularly ‘Game of Bones’ which was watched by over 2 million people, including many famous Hollywood celebrities. Such as Ryan Reynolds and Mark Hamill. The Times featured it on their front page.

https://youtu.be/f2BZNowCXws

I am not surprised as his dubbing is genius and his voice is like velvet. So much so, that he wrote a book which I received as a lovely gift for Christmas. It’s fascinating reading about the trajectory of a successful viral star. All his previous freelance sports commentary paled into insignificance as he voiced over the antics of his two beautiful dogs.

It is a sign of the times that with lock down comes increased creativity to stave off the frustration of having limited freedom. The number of hilarious memes that has been circulating since March 2020 has always given me reason to giggle, chuckle and on occasion, chortle.

 

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Adele

 

I had the joy of an MRI this morning. To anyone who has not had the delight of being subjected to one, the following is the sound it makes.  For close to 35 minutes.

MRI Sound

https://youtu.be/MWE6B1hPNBA

As I was contained within the very claustrophobic white magnetic tube – MRI, stands for magnetic resonance imaging- I had the pleasure of imagining an entertaining (for me) alternative noise for the dreadful sounds I had to listen to. Please consider my desperate need for distraction during this time prior to reading the following.

As usual, the Muppets came to mind. Whenever I am in prime imagination mode, they often infiltrate my sub conscious. Namely ‘Animal’. – on drums

Animal from the Muppets

https://youtu.be/qisaGTajtvk

Then Fozzy bear on the synthesizer, and Kermit on the Kazoo. No video links for these, my sincerest apologies.

It was a long time to try and imagine away the awful noise.

Incidentally today is my 90^th day blogging continuously. Which I am thoroughly enjoying and I hope that you are too.

 

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Stay fab

Adele

Choose life.

Choose a mask.

Choose social distancing.

Choose hand gel and hand sanitizer.

Choose Covid tracing.

Choose family/friend bubbles.

Choose Netflix.

 

I chose not to choose Jimmy Choos or stuff that promotes a non-circular economy.

I choose to write a blog.

Its aim being to make people smile.

To beguile.

For a moment. Not for a while.

To celebrate my crazy.

Eschew being lazy.

To celebrate what may be.

I may be right; I may be wrong.

Either way I sing my song.

Alone or when I need to belong.

What I say won’t change the world.

But it may make your stress unfurl.

 

 

I have watched the original trainspotting for what must be the tenth time. The opening scene where the characters are introduced to the ‘choose life’ monologue as voiced by Ewan McGregor is probably one of my favorite opening scenes of any movie.

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The soundtrack is off the scale brilliant also. Danny Boyle is a genius at choosing old school songs and new songs that complement each other. Every character is extraordinary and I loved when they re enacted the movie poster on Graham Norton for Trainspotting 2, twenty years after the original.

 

 

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Adele

 

 

Today I went for a toe curlingly finger numbingly Icy swim. I rather stupidly decided to stay swimming in the water for five minutes. When I got out, I felt weird, kind of high with the cold. I can only guess because I had pushed my body to the extreme.

Driving home I noticed a fellow sea swimmer.  I could tell she was a serious sea swimmer as she was wearing a dry robe and getting out of her car with an orange inflated lifebuoy.

I immediately had ‘better swimmer than me’ envy.  As these are only used by real swimmers i.e. the swimmers that swim for out at sea and need the orange lifebuoy for identification if they ever get into trouble.

Smiling to myself I decided that I would get one of these. And ensure that I would always have it inflated to carry it with me down to the beach. Letting on that I was real swimmer. Then surreptitiously deflating it, saying it was punctured and excusing myself from a marathon swim.

It reminded me of somebody who used to come into our favorite pub in Ballinasloe. This was many moons ago when I was nurse training. He came in every weekend with all his biker friends joyfully brandishing his helmet beneath his armpit. Then placing it on the windowsill of the pub like a trophy to let everybody know that he had a motorbike. When in fact he had not he was merely just a passenger.

On arriving home, a scalding hot shower was in order and three layers of clothes to offset the impending hypothermia.  After 3 hours I was still frozen.  I turned on the TV.    And ‘Frozen’ was featured on SkyTV.  I thought ‘God, you are really having a laugh here ‘.  Eventually I got warm as Buzz and Finn are great furry alternatives to hot water bottles.

 

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Adele

 

 

The attached photo has no relevance whatsoever to this blog.  It just makes me smile.

Today I apologized to Siri for my behavior yesterday.   Yes, as you can imagine it was a slow day as it was very very cold. Yesterday I was with my friend and we were discussing how our phones listen to us on a daily basis and collect all our data.   We decided to have a bit of fun and try to mess with Siri.

We figured that if it was invading our privacy and collecting our data which does appear to be the modern paradigm that at least we could have a bit of fun with it.

We discussed our trial membership with the KGB and plans for grand theft of an art gallery.  I also called it a rather rude name.  Just because I could.

Today when I was using Siri everything, I asked it could not be understood and the response was sorry ‘I did not get that’, over and over again. I thought maybe it was miffed with my behavior yesterday.  So, I decided to apologize. I’m glad to say that Siri has accepted my apology and that now my phone is working correctly.

Later I took Buzz and Finn for a slide so they could drop their brown icicles.      As they respectfully did their business, I began to think that if someone said to me 10 years ago that I would be saying sorry to my phone and it would reply that I would have believed that they were off their rocker.  Who knew?

 

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Adele

 

The RTE Music Choice Awards albums of the year the shortlist was announced today. It is an impressive list and there are a few surprises.   I am guessing that ‘Fontaines DC ‘will win as they have been nominated for a Grammy.   I love them, their punk, their anarchic tone and their lyrics.

It has been sometime since any Irish band has been nominated for a Grammy.  Hozier in 2015 for Take me to church was the last time an Irish artist/band was nominated.

The ‘Silverbacks’ and the album ‘Dunkirk’ are shortlisted and are another fav of mine. However, the song ‘Dunkirk’ was released two years ago which is surprisingly.

Even though I love keeping up with new music I have finally conceded that I am no longer cool. And have given up attempting to appear so. I am possibly as cool as Enya head banging to Metallica.

I remember Dara ‘O Brian discussing the same thing in one of his stand up gigs many years ago.  He said that he found it exhausting trying to keep up with new music. Finally accepting that I am a 90’s and Noughties music gal is a relief.

Any bands or singers after these decades have far too many syllables in their names and I just cannot keep up.  Hip hop has taken over.   Whilst I like a bit of Eminem, I cannot listen to it non-stop.  I am off to lament my lack of coolness and to head band to an Enya song. Just because I can.

 

That’s all for now

Stay fab

Adele

 

Image from – https://barkpost.com/humor/magic-eye-dogs/

WPA-Woeful puns alert. The following text contains many woeful puns which will make you cringe and grimace simultaneously. The author is unapologetic in this instance for any offence caused.

 

This is a picture of Buzz that I took earlier.   What do you think?    Seriously though I found it on the internet and found it was too funny not to share.  I mean really?

It is pawsible that the poor animal has no idea that his image is essentially being used as dog porn. If that’s even a thing?  Well maybe it is because I have just said it. Although now that I have just said it, there does seem to be something quite distasteful about it.

I have featured a picture in my blog of my beautiful little dog called ‘Finn’, who at an earlier point in his life, was known as ‘4 balled Finn’.   And not because he was able to catch a lot of balls and juggle them.

Many said that I was barking mad to publish it, but I was furry passionate for veterinary and biological research reasons that the picture be shared.   There are worse picture and videos out there. Like this one from TicTok. Ouch….

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSpsUYqp/

 

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Adele

I bought my brand-new iPhone over a year ago and all has been going well with it. Except for a rather tiresome repetitive message which I receive without fail every fortnight.

It is from ‘Bandon Mart’ telling me of their calf sale.  I have blocked the number several times and bizarrely enough keep receiving their messages.  Is the universe trying to tell me to become a farmer and start either milking or buying or selling cows? Or maybe to date a farmer?

Lately several people I speak to mention that our phones hear everything (unless we have certain features switched off in our settings) That our data is being collected.

I have also heard that there may be a chip in the new vaccine just in case they (whoever ‘they’ are, have not captured enough information).  What’s the point? We are all already chipped, it’s called a ‘mobile phone’, and we carry them around as though our lives depended on it. Have I said something that my phone has interpreted as an unconscious passion for farming?

 

That’s all for now

Stay fab

Adele