Leisurely Scribbles (part 5) (Part 1)

[spitfire]

Have you got the video of them doing “Underneath the Arches”?

[gumbud]

@Jem

I really don’t know Gummy. I think the great potato famine of the 1840’s may have triggered it off, for centuries before that we were all too busy fighting off invaders to go anywhere, eventually the Vikings took over Dublin and as that famous saying here goes “They became more Irish than the Irish themselves” the rest of the country was so badly effected by famine that the population was halved from 8 million to 4 million. Maybe after that they all got the travelling bug, who really knows.
However there are great opportunities on the horizon here and a highly educated crop of young people to take advantage of them, hopefully then with well paid jobs we will be able to keep our younger folk at home, it’s a good little country to raise a family in too.

I remember the old lads singing this old song in the pubs years ago. Foster an Allan recorded it much later, but the words are the same I think.

FOSTER & ALLEN
If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here.

I was dreaming of old Ireland and Killarneys lakes and
fells,
I was dreaming of the shamrock and the dear old Shandon
Bells,
When my memories suggested in a vision bright and
clear,
All the strange things that would happen if we had old
Ireland here.

If the Blarney stone stood out in Sidney Harbour,
And Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay,
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane Waters,
And Killarneys lakes flowed into Botany Bay,
If the Shandon Bells rang out in old Fremantle,
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear,
Erin’s sons would never roam, all the boys would stay
at home,
If we only had old Ireland over here.

There are lots of lovely lassies dancin’ on the village
green,
There are lots of lovely coleens, the finest ever seen,
Where the boys are all called Paddy, and the girls
called Molly Dear,
Sure we’d wrap the green flag round them, if we had old
Ireland here

If the Blarney stone stood out in Sidney Harbour,
And Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay,
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane Waters,
And Killarneys lakes flowed into Botany Bay,
If the Shandon Bells rang out in old Fremantle,
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear,
Erin’s sons would never roam, all the boys would stay
at home,
If we only had old Ireland over here.

lovely sentiments Jem ; that’s cheered me up as I’ve just finished reading a scholarly article about genocide which really depressed me. It’s by Robert Fisk from the Independent and he is a hard cutting journalist - he calls it as it is.

[gumbud]

I do think it’s about time we made SP an honorable " leisurely scribbler" as she has really shown her mettle of late -SP - no it won’t spoil ya hair - we are just goin [well Jem is goin to ] to place it over ya head - no will ya stop fidgetin girl FGS - it’s not heavy it’s made from very light polythene. there doesn’t she like nice - I know declare you very full of … well you know what and a member of the ancient and solemn clan of ‘leisurely scribblers’ - three cheers everyone - robert bang the drum please [no ya canny have a big R this time].

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[Sweetie_pie]

@spitfire

Have you got the video of them doing “Underneath the Arches”?

That made me laugh.
Note: Never send Spitty to buy lager.

[Sweetie_pie]

Gummy Bear I do declare.

[spitfire]

Some folks are Lager than Life.

[Sweetie_pie]

@spitfire

Some folks are Lager than Life.

Especially the ones who have Flanagan.

[spitfire]

Do you mean Flagonon.

[Sweetie_pie]

@spitfire

Do you mean Flagonon.

Or even Brigadoon.

[spitfire]

Have you seen the whole of the Moon?

[Sweetie_pie]

@spitfire

Have you seen the whole of the Moon?

Only when you bend …
Forget it.

[gumbud]

@Sweetie pie

Only when you bend …
Forget it.

ooeer you are naughty but I do like you!!

[Sweetie_pie]

@gumbud

ooeer you are naughty but I do like you!!

Spitty has gorn to bed.
Naughty Spitty causes a load of nonsense, then skidadles.

[Sweetie_pie]

Good Night lovelies:lol:
I’m stealing Gummy Bear tomorrow. I need help drinking my wine.

[gumbud]

@Sweetie pie

Good Night lovelies:lol:
I’m stealing Gummy Bear tomorrow. I need help drinking my wine.

stealing away ; stealing away - is that a title of a song or a line in a song - where is Jem when you need him the depository of all useless knowledge!!

[Fruitcake]

@gumbud

stealing away ; stealing away - is that a title of a song or a line in a song - where is Jem when you need him the depository of all useless knowledge!!

It reminds me somewhat of this old folk song.

Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

[solo]

That “Dashing away” is a lovely old folk song. Mind you those plungers, possers, mangles and flat irons show how orrid wash days really were…and none of your posh smelly, whitening soap powder either.

It was all left to good old dolly blue to brighten things up.

[Sweetie_pie]

Dolly Blue??? You lost me Solo.
Sweetie goes off to google.
I’ll be back.

[gumbud]

@gumbud

stealing away ; stealing away - is that a title of a song or a line in a song - where is Jem when you need him the depository of all useless knowledge!!

[Sweetie_pie]

Errrr yous getting your tubes all mixed up Gummy Bear.

Anyway, take a butchers at this.

"ROYAL WEDDING" — A Bad Lip Reading

"ROYAL WEDDING" — A Bad Lip Reading