Madness

I’m sorry, but you’ll have to wait until after I find out why Lucien Ashford, sixth Viscount Calverton, has agreed to marry Miss Amelia Cynster before I can return to regular posting.
It’s madness. Sheer madness, I tell you!

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Euro Alert

Recently an old man approached me and yelled “DO YOU. SPEAK. ENGLISH?”
I answered “FLUENT. LY.”
He laughed, but now he’s got me worried that I’m dressing far too European.

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Take A Guess Tuesday

Laurence has a new television obsession. Just try to guess what it is.
A. How to Look Good Naked - he can’t get enough of Gok Wan.B. The Apprentice - he wants Katie to die.C. Grey’s Anatomy (season three) - he wants to be McGinger.D. Little People, Big World - he [...]

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Happy Birthday Birdy!

Happy Birthday Bird

Hope you party in your hooker heels!

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Someone’s Gotta Live It

It’s a hard life, but someone’s gotta live it.
After having the hours fly by while enjoying tea with Joanne and her mom, now I must run in order to catch 84 Charing Cross at Andrews Lane.
Hang in there, life reverts to relative boringness tomorrow.

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Playful Mouse

When the cat’s away the mice will play, and this mouse has done just that. Laurence is in Waterford this weekend, but prior commitments have kept me here in Dublin. Unfortunately when Laurence left at 8am this morning I was also awakened, but it helped me get a head start on a bunch of the [...]

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My Many Talents

“Beth, I’ve got a great new job for you,” a voice crackled down the end of my line, the enormous charge to my phone credit confirming that I was indeed receiving a call from outside of the EU.
“Oh yeah?” I eloquently responded.
“Translating documents from Gujarati. What do you think?”
“I think I don’t [...]

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Voter’s Remorse

And so I’ve voted. And so I’ve sunk into a little depression.
Why is it that what was once meant to be an inspiring, empowering activity is now simply an exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils?
Or ten evils, if you are in Dublin.

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Wonderfully Inappropriate

Whilst perusing one of the less stellar of the Irish glossies my eye was drawn to a little sidebar of “Secret Addresses” that Dubliners should know. I scanned the list and possibly gave the little old lady next to me a heart-attack when I snorted louder than any farmyard pig. There, right before [...]

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Irish Elves

Actual emails sent between 2:30 and 2:42pm today.
Elizabeth Morrissey said:Laurence I hate to inform you of this, but some elves broke in and stole your piece of tiramisu. I don’t know where it went! I tried to stop them, but they had tiny knives that gave me paper cuts and I couldn’t fight them off.
Laurence [...]

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