Talk is Cheap
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Years, all is good here in Perú. We’re in the Cordillera Blanca at the moment in a city called Huaraz. I’ve had my monthly stay on the toilet bowl after yet another food poisining and Marianne is deciding on her future studies. We also had a very quiet New Years watching the Godfather Part II after our original plans foundered on the rocks of RipOff
Anyway the point of this post was to let me know your phone / skype numbers (email us or just post them here) cos we now have a Skype account meaning we can call you all for free / very little. Also for everyone in Germany we bought a German phone number so you can call us at local rate. The number is 09861 4033 81 (a Rothenburg number!)
January 4th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Seeing your beautiful face last night was a wonderful moment for me Ciaran.
God bless Skype for bringing us back together through the medium of web video.
Next time put some clothes on though, eh? My mother could have walked in.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Hallo Marianne,
a guats neues wuensch ich dir und Ciaran!
Ruf dich mal auf der Nummer an. Hoffentlich klappts!
Bis denn!
Claudia
January 4th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Hey Ciaran, so sorry you got hit with the food poisoning blues once more. You are a particulary sensitive petal huh?
January 4th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Well my stomach was fine until I had those dodgy baked beans at your feckin wedding (Note to everyone - avoid the Commodore Hotel Cobh) - since then I’ve been struggling to get back what marianne refers to as a pig’s gut.
January 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Haha, I remember that; it was on Halloween night, wasn’t it? Ciaran lying in bed groaning while the Goats of Hell played ‘God Give Rock and Roll To You’ in a vain attempt to rouse him…
January 5th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Oh Sweet Jesus. Ciaran, face it - whilst the Commodore will never win a Mitchelin Star, (the aroma of overboiled cabbage penetrates even the upper floors of the hotel, i admit), my guess is, you went overboard on the oul sauce during the night in question. And i ain’t talkin HP.
January 5th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
‘Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington Station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same…’
I meant to tell you Ciaran & Marianne, did you know that some believe Paddington Bear is fundamentally a tale about the difficulties facing the immigrant? See: paper by Angela Smith, ‘Paddington Bear: A Case Study of Immigration and Otherness’…
Smarty Pants Angela explains, ‘This paper seeks to explore issues of immigration and Otherness through a study of the first of Michael Bond’s Paddington books. I will argue that this book and those which follow in the series, intended for a readership of young children, deal with the issue of immigration at a more subtle level than more recent books which are largely aimed at older children who, it is assumed, are better able to cope with the complex political and psychological issues involved. Paddington, as a series of books begun in the late 1950s, presents issues of anti-racism and `Otherness’ which can be revealed through a close textual analysis of the introductory chapters of the first book in series, A Bear Called Paddington (1958)1, whilst also showing how the dominant culture retains its superior status.’
Gotta keep you up to date with some of the cultural references and connections between your current location & English literature.
You are in Peru I take it.
Jeez i’m busy here. Actually, i am. Gotta go.
January 5th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Does that mean the Poddington Peas is about a fear of gypsies?
January 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
right so the poddington peas refers to a fear of travellers.
Then, is the shoe people fundamentally a tale about the difficulties facing modern rail or pelicans?
mmmmm worth pondering. back in bagillt after a very fine week in obertauern,
fresh powder every morning x serious craic at night= professional studies assignmet for tomorrow ahhh
in truest jordan style
good to hear that all was well with yes two, take it easy goats
that site you made is sweet indeed ciaran, well i mean its all relative but its nothing compared to the whiteabbey clothing with flying gonzo nak nak
franz
January 14th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Hi Ciaran and Marianne,
Ruben (skypename: rmdijkstra) and Welmoed (skypename: welmoed.kronemeijer) are going to the Galapagos!! Tomorrow. We are still in Latacunga now after having doing the Quilotoa loop. Oh yeah, Ciaran, the sand that you were talking about is eroded sand (eroded from acidic volcanic rock). This is why it is white, like normal sand, since the volcanic rock is acidic it has a lighter colour then a basaltic lava. Normally, this happens at the end of the time of a volcano´s life.
Anyway, my god, we actually hiked from Chugchilan to Quilotoa and got lost in the crater. I guess when in too deep. But it was gorgeous!
Hope you are well?
cheers
Welmoed & Ruben
January 15th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Fecking hell, don’t get me started on the Raggy Dolls…
January 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
what about the biker mice from mars,
theres a lad who reminds me of them on the course, also a bit of a tool
January 18th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Are you calling the Biker Mice tools? Apparently biker mice was about repressed homosexuality.