Irish Festival

[Ted Max]

Blow-darting the parakeets and making a headdress from the feathers.

[SteveT]

silverfox wrote:-

I go every year and always find it a bit of a shoddy afair with tatty stalls and very litle effort. Not a good advertisement for Ireland in my opinion.

Why go every year if all you do is complain about it, why go at all? Why not offer your services and expertise to improve it rather than denegrate it.

I like it being there every year and find it worth a visit. If you cant stand the heat keep out of the kitchen.

[silverfox]

I wasn't complaining SteveT. It's an observation. I go every year because I think such events should be supported. I just think it's a shame that it's all a bit down at heel and much more could be done.

I will complain though about the funfair that happens at the same time - ?2.50 for a child to hook a duck and ?3 a token - daylight robbery.

PS you owe me for letting the (renamed) 'Where's the Thank you thread gone?' die!

[SteveT]

Dream on foxy you are living in cloud cuckoo land, I don't seperate from my hard earned so easily. You didn't let it die admin renamed it.(6)

[muffins78]

I never knew there was an irish festival in Dulwich - how did i miss that!! I only saw this post because I was doing a search to see was there a post on how to get Irish tv over here!!! :)

[Susie1791]

For some bizarre reason you can't view RTE (Irish channels) on the internet player, you can only view it if in Northern or the Republic of Ireland, kind of defeats the purpose, shame as was hoping to catch the Rose of Tralee this week! :-)

[muffins78]

Ah thats to do with our IP addresses!! when i was doing some internet searches i stumbled across a thing where you could buy an Irish IP address - but I doubt thats legal!! The London Rose won the Rose of Tralee - thats all I know about it this year, think the family didnt see it at all.. I've written to Gerry Ryan (you can listen to him online every day) and see if he does something - woohoo :)

[Susie1791]

Ah that's cool the London Rose got it, I've got a friend of mine judging this week, she's a ex-Rose. Thanks for the tip re Gerry Ryan show too, even though I do find he likes the sound of his own voice a little bit too much at times :-)

[muffins78]

LOL - a lot of people think that about him - i just find him honest, sympathetic and very direct in his approach. The show today was very sad - i nearly cried..

Which rose did you know?? Where do they have the competitions for the London rose?? :)

[Susie1791]

I know the 1993 Rose, she was representing the UK and was from the Midlands at that time, she was a judge last and this year at and is having a ball over there this week :-)

[Catalyst]

Lovely Girls competition?

[muffins78]

CAtalyst - you are so right!! I was thinking and thinking and I couldnt remember why Fr Ted kept creeping to mind. I kept thinking of "my lovely horse"!!! lol

Susie - I think I remember that win :) or is that sad :)