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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #930 on: August 06, 2009, 22:10:17 PM »
Break 2 -- FFS 4,800 -- blinds when we return 200/400/50 -- 434/520 --- I will be making a move shortly

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #931 on: August 06, 2009, 22:11:34 PM »
railing wont say it in case I bok ya
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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #932 on: August 06, 2009, 22:18:05 PM »
Me too, but already told ya so apologies in advance for the bok.  lol

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #933 on: August 06, 2009, 22:18:50 PM »
lol
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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #934 on: August 06, 2009, 22:48:26 PM »
pooh 309th 288 paid -- 10 10 no match for a rivered A to A K

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #935 on: August 06, 2009, 22:51:46 PM »
Back to the old 27"s

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #936 on: August 08, 2009, 21:29:27 PM »

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #938 on: August 16, 2009, 12:39:44 PM »

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #939 on: August 16, 2009, 12:56:45 PM »
If you ever get a chance to visit the wonderful County of Clare please do so. There are a number of beautiful places to visit and one of them is Bunratty folk park.

The folk park began in the early "60s when a farmhouse had to be demolished to make way for a new runway at Shannon International Airport. The house was taken to Bunratty and reconstructed brick by brick. Over time more and more structures were added illustrating the dwelling places of poor labourers, wealthier farmers, trades people and lords and ladies. A schoolhouse (this was Belvoir School which was my mother's first teaching post), a church, a post office, shops and a pub were added to complete the village.

At Bunratty you hear more American accents than Irish because the folk park is primarily designed for visitors. The preservationists who have created Bunratty Folk Park and other interpretive centers in Ireland are passionate about the story they have to tell, and recreations and reenactments bring history to life and stimulate the imagination in a way that books and pictures cannot.

The same goes for the castle banquet at Bunratty. It"s primarily a show for visitors, but what a show! Who could pass up a chance to dine in a beautifully furnished banquet hall, mellowed by mead and serenaded by exquisitely costumed harpers, fiddlers and singers? The food is excellent and the music is superb.

Also, sample the banquets at Knappogue Castle and Dunguaire Castle and the music night at the Bunratty Corn Barn. A visit to the Lough Gur Stone Age Cente, the Craggaunowen Bronze Age Project, and the Brian Boru Heritage Centre in Killaloe is a must.

A trip along the Atlantic coast through the area known as the Burren is also a must. It is a carboniferous limestone landscape with thousands of varieties of rare flowers, including acres and acres of wild orchids. Botanists come here from all over the world to study the unique combination of Arctic, Alpine and Mediterranean plants.

Back in 17th Century, General Edmund Ludlow wrote to his boss, English dictator Oliver Cromwell, that the geography of the Burren was interfering with his favorite pastimes: He said

"It is a country where there is not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him,"

And no I am not sponsored by the Irish Tourist Board I just miss it sometimes more than others and today is one of them.


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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #940 on: August 16, 2009, 13:21:06 PM »
A few nostaglic pictures

The Abbey at Quin


The Bunratty performers


A recontructed cottage at Bunratty


Lough Fee with Devil"s Mother in the background


The fortifications at Dun Aenghus on Inis Mor


The Ogham Stone, in the village of Tully Cross, bears the earliest known writing in Ireland


A megalithic tomb on the Burren


View from the cliffs in Tully

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #941 on: August 16, 2009, 13:37:17 PM »

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #942 on: August 17, 2009, 11:07:26 AM »
Huge fan of the Burren.  Not so much a fan of Bunratty.  Suppose if it weren"t so commercial I might appreciate it more.  Hearing so many Yank accents doesn"t help matters.  They do me head in!!!

Was thinking of you yesterday.  Went to the pub to watch the hurling semi final at 3:30.  Got home at 1:30am.  Great match.  

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #943 on: August 17, 2009, 17:25:08 PM »

Went to the pub to watch the hurling semi final at 3:30.  Got home at 1:30am.  Great match. 


There"s a swear word for that woman  ;D ;D

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Re: Duke attempts the Impossible
« Reply #944 on: August 17, 2009, 18:20:56 PM »


Went to the pub to watch the hurling semi final at 3:30.  Got home at 1:30am.  Great match. 


There"s a swear word for that woman  ;D ;D


home?  ;D