To the Irish!

It turns out that, including me, many of my group of friends are making their first forays into the blogging universe, either now or just a couple of months ago...
It raises a topic that was discussed the other day by my friend Paul in his vlog ( Check it out here, its awesome). Irish peoples on the blogo/vlogo-sphere (try saying that five times fast), are you out there? We'd like a bit more noise from you!
The Irish conscience though, being what it is, is not always partial to share how it feels with the wider world. Encounter an Irish person and ask how they are, even your best friend will, 99 percent of the time, only use the word "grand". It's just what we do. As a nation, most families are no more than two generations from the farm, and that means kids are still raised with the 'Keep your head down and stay quiet' mentality. The current crop of teenagers though is freeing itself of those shackles, and has taken it's first few steps into the global community.
So if you are an Irish blogger out there, don't be afraid! Your people are joining you. If you ain't Irish, but still reading this, then hear us. We have arrived. And we brought the Guinness.

A couple of links to my friends out there :
Paul's blog and vlog (again)
Hannah's blog (The best pure writer among us)
Chris' blog
David's blog (If it ever gets updated again)
Millie's vlog

Over and out.

Of Powder and Partnerships...

Oh I am so fed up of this snow by now...
It's been exactly a week to the hour since it started snowing, and it hasn't budged since...
Sure, say you my wonderful audience, you're glad to have no school? No tests? No homework?
And I reply yes, but there is only so much a man can take...

In 7 days I've

• Been outside 5 times
• Spent roughly 13 hours a day attached to a screen of some sort
• Have seen 2 friends
• Have seen my girlfriend 0 times
• and have been given out to by my mother on an uncountable number of occasions...

All in all I'm quite bored, but fascinated by how the Australian bowling attack (or defence at this stage you might say) have seemed to developed a dangerous allergy to taking the wicket of Alastair Cook or Johnathon Trott. As I type, these two batsman have managed to accumulate 482 runs together without being dismissed, if this was an old fashioned Timeless Test we could be here til Christmas, and Trott would have dug himself halfway to Canada...
But surely by then Ricky Ponting will have brought in their wicket taking hero from the First Test; the spin-maestro Marcus North (someone should invent a sarcasm font...), we shall see, as long as I keep my coffee reserves full...

Over and out...

Of queries and moustaches...

I'm extremely tempted to write some reviews of play from The Ashes, but for some reason I don't think I'll have much of an audience for it... Do I have any cricket loving followers? Speak out people!

In relation to the Ashes however, it was a fantastic sight on the first days play to see the assortment of moustaches on display, something that is tragically missing from modern sport. Kevin Pietersen and Mitchel Johnson are competing for best lip fuzz, with Doug Bollinger and Peter Siddle lagging behind. But none shall ever beat the epic handlebar of former-Australian bowler Merv Hughes:

We salute you sir.

 Over and out.

Blur + Springsteen = MGMT? O.o

Just fiddling around with my guitar (Squier Telecaster for those of you who don't know me), and have discovered that Kids by MGMT is just an amalgamation of the melody from Tender by Blur, and the chorus of Bruce Springsteen's Radio Nowhere...
Who'd a thunk it?

Over and out.