One corner of the auld kitchen... 

Looking over towards the other corner of the kitchen 

A wee bit of the siting room, pity my camera lens cant capture more of the rooms. 

Thar she blows!! Tis a lovely house.  

And the unpacking begins....We had it out in jig-time. Which is usually 6/8 or 12/8 and the odd time 9/8 - but thats a slipjig 

Yep that's one more in there for good measure... 

Milo sang a few songs on Sunday, the boy can sing! It's a pity he doesn't do it more often. God bless Ireland 

This was supposed to be a pic of Marie, but my mug had ta ruin it of course! 

Whats Eamonn laughing at?...Find out in the next pic... 

Milo was doing some joke involving breathing through a bag I think, so he demonstrated with Eamonns tobacco, suffice to say it went up his nose, in his teeth, and his eyes. Bloody arsh, but it was a great laugh for us! 

I went out to record a few songs yesterday in Helges, here's the setup and a scared looking Helge 

I went out to record a few songs yesterday in Helges, here's the setup and a scared looking Helge 

This is as close to a picture of Jessica as I could get, sie germans are doing up their kitchen at the moment, fair play ta them! 

Me auld instruments. 

There's me auld seat for recording, I'd like to thank Jessica for the use of here tights! 

He's German, we'll have to forgive him. 

Quite strange looking isn't it 

There's the info... 

Here's my dog Ted, he had been knocked out early to get his teeth done and he was so stoned for the day, twas gas. 

Fergal called around last night, haven't seen him in years. Meanie (The dog) recognised him straight away, good ta see! 

Last night, at Andy Irvine

So Sean got called to do sound for none other than Andy Irvine, of Planxty/Sweeneys Men/Mozaik/Patrick Street fame.

He in turn phoned Helge to go with him.

I, hearing this, invited myself as the lads roadie, backround music and stage seating guy. (Titles self ordained)

But it was worth it.
Andy was great. A living legend.
Here's some photos explaining his instruments (Boring to most I'm sure!)

I like this photo. Probably because I couldn't do it again if I tried a hundred times. Somehow the camera took a steady shot of all the dark images and stretched the bright ones... 

This instrument is halfway between a mandolin and a mandola. Would that make it a mandolan! 

This one is a bass bouzouki. The depth of the sound on it was amzing, even with the cappo half way up the fretboard. Good man yerself Andy

Alhough this one looks like a guitar, it's not. It's a guitar shaped bouzouki. Why? - Sound, my dear boy. Sound. 

Hmmmmmm....

I seem to be having awful trouble getting images up on this site now.
Perhaps it's because I've reached my limit for this year in the last few days!
Who knows, I'll get working on it...
Maybe after a few hours of Guinness and song...
Although I probably won't care as much then...
We'll see sure...

The Engagement

Before we went to Spain, we had Nellie and CC's surprise engagement party. Twas organised by the girls, and they did a fine job of it!

It's only after putting up all these engagement photos that I realise just how few have the couple in them! Ah well, here goes!