well, 1957 actually, as aired on BBC's Panorama show:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/70000/video/_70980_aprilfool_vi.ram

From this prank sitehttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/

I had a run of a few nights in a row without any dreams of Beth. I thought that my subconscious was finally appeased, but no. She's still there, in every other conscious thought and in my subconscious too. Heck, even her family shows up in some of the dreams ( Read more... )

Well, this was interesting... I was at a party. Looked like the hosts were planning to get pretty kinky. I guess I'll skip those details for now, maybe fill them in some other day ( Read more... )

OK, 2nd night home and still adjusting to the jetlag. I just woke up from an interesting dream sequence ( Read more... )

Just got back from Smithfield, session at the Cobblestone pub. Caught the last train. Was a good night, nice session with two other fiddles, box, banjo, and guitar. And I must remember to tell Des Regan that Joe Breen said hi. Small world ( Read more... )

Ah. Slept in late, grilled up a couple more farls along with some sausage and black pudding. Added that to the leftovers from last night's dinner. A fine Irish breakfast, at 1pm. Walked out to the LUAS (light rail) station (dodging rain drops along the way) and rode in to the city centre, St. Stephen's Green. I was amused to see that there's a real ( Read more... )

I first encountered potato farls sitting on my breakfast plate in a B&B in Belfast on July 30 1996. Since then I hadn't run across them again anywhere else, and I've longed for the taste many a time. Fortunately yesterday was a shopping trip, and in amongst all the various and sundry breads on the shelf there were, indeed, farls to be found. My ( Read more... )

It's been a long week. Things went well, and dinner at the various restaurants has been an amazing new experience each night. But I'm glad the course is over, the students have apparently absorbed a fair amount of the information, and everyone is departing ( Read more... )

So, the publisher has made an offer and sent a contract. I'm officially now a book author as well as a software author. Woohoo ( Read more... )

Last night I woke up twice, and remembered some of my dreams at each time ( Read more... )