There was this very posh shop selling leather and fur coats.
Hubby was admiring one in the window. I eventually wandered up the road to see what he was doing. The next thing I knew was being escorted into the shop by the owner, he wanted to take some pics of me modelling some coats. I thought it was daft, considering I was wearing shorts, but I agreed for the laugh. So after having my pic taken wearing some, he then brought a mink coat out for me to try. WELL, it was 1000 lev, about £500. I know my furs, and for a start, I didn’t think it was mink. He then stated that because I had modelled the other coats, he would reduce it by another 30%. No thank-you was my reply, my hubby thought I was crazy, he wanted to buy it for me. I told him when we left the shop, that I was sure it was cat fur!:shock:
It’s not so surprising, there are many ‘Finns’ in the Roscommon area, we had a shoemaker up the road called Harry Finn, and of course the greatest Irish hero of them all Finn McCool, Cool by name and cool by nature. It’s said of Finn that he lifted a huge stone and cast it into the Irish sea, and it’s known today as the Isle of Man.
Mickey Finn was a real character back in the 19th century.
“A ‘Mickey Finn’, which is sometimes called just a ‘Mickey’ is supposed to be named after a character from 19th century Chicago - ‘Mickey Finn’, of course. Finn was the keeper of Chicago’s Lone Star Saloon in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was alleged to have drugged and robbed his customer” wiki.
There is also a lovely pub in Wicklow called ‘Mickey Finn’s Pub’ a smashing pub with plenty of traditional music and craic, well worth a visit if your ever in that beautiful county. https://s20.postimg.cc/j5un3tikd/image.jpg
I’m always suspicious about empty pubs reminds me of the “pub with no beer” Now Nobeer was a infamous irish bouncer employed by pubs during times of famine to stand at the door of pubs and declare " Nobeer" when the patrons asked “no beer” he just nodded and then thumped them - charming!
Why does everyone associate Beer with pubs, in the old days the quality of the Ale was secondary to the buildings ability to function as a “Pen” for birds.
Good quality Beer was a bonus.
Oiy!
Who cares about ages!
We are all having fun.
All the pubs are closing anyway.
Apart from those in London.
Even my bar struggles.
I forgot to tell you about the Pole dancer I saw. It was an open air bar.
I may have mentioned this before, but my old Uncle Joe bought the record of Slim Dusty singing the pub with no beer way back when it first came out, the 1950’s I think, Spitty and Sweetie were in Gods pocket then as they used to say, so they would not know it, how lucky for them. But he never stopped playing the bloody thing, I think that record sold more copies in Ireland than it did in Australia, everyone was singing it, bus conductors, messenger boys, barbers, every Tom Dick and Harry, I knew every word of it by heart.
Ah Bulgarian cigars! Mussolini was a great fan of the Bulgarian cigar, norra lorra people knew that.
Now I don’t know if there’s any truth in this story or not, but a chap from County Clare was telling me that during the war his Uncle worked in a Bulgarian cigar factory, when they couldn’t get the raw material in they used to catch dozens of the factory Rats, gas them, filet them, flatten them out with a wooden mallet, dry them and finally roll them, I believe regular Bulgarian cigar smokers couldn’t tell the difference.
Here’s something I spotted in todays news involving a drone, this discovery would never have been made if the weather conditions had not been just right.
New discovery by drone near Newgrange.
The drone that captured the image belongs to historian and author Anthony Murphy, who has been recording and writing about the Boyne Valley for many years.
He said: “The weather is absolutely critical to the discovery of this monument. I have flown a drone over the Boyne Valley regularly and have never seen this.”
He said the bit of moisture left in the soil “lodges in the archaeological features a little bit more than it does in the surrounding soil and the crop that is growing out of the soil is greener in the archaeological features and drier outside of them”.
“So when that crop is harvested all surface traces of this monument will vanish and we may not see this monument again for two or three decades depending on when we get another prolonged dry spell like this”
But he never stopped playing the bloody thing, I think that record sold more copies in Ireland than it did in Australia, everyone was singing it, bus conductors, messenger boys, barbers, every Tom Dick and Harry, I knew every word of it by heart. 
