20 Most popular towns for Poles in Ireland ( Read more... )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM

The Pogues version

Happy Birthday Wiktor!

This is a 10-minute video on YouTube entitled Wilno 1936. It's a black and white documentary on the city narrated in German with subtitles in Lithuanian. It's interesting because it shows the city as it was in 1936 when it was Polish. Lots of views of people, markets, architecture and streets. In 1939 the city's destruction began with the Soviet ( Read more... )

Top 20 beer-drinking nations (by annual per capita beer consumption 2004 ( Read more... )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjJYywFNbuw

Drink of the week

Marlborough sauvignon blanc mixed 50-50 with tonic. Signature Range in my case.

I tried Hardy's chardonnay first, but the sav blanc is better.

An easy drink: breezy, sunny and fresh, like Marlborough.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's reported dead this afternoon. Stingray barb thru the chest. My housemate just told me and the Sydney Morning Herald has the news as a lead on its site. I find it a bit of a shock. Dangerphiliac Irwin seemed invincible. His death'll be our international lead in the paper tomorrow I guess.

Also to be found on YouTube are several original My Lovely Horse videos featuring Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal Maguire, and several remakes. Among my faves ( Read more... )

Funny news story from today. Maybe you saw it ( Read more... )