Maman Poulet Nerve Severed Links
Posted by Maman Poulet on 23 Jul 2008 at 02:16 pm | Tagged as: linkiness
Mulley suggests we find our own fluffy links while he apartment hunts in Dublin (not true but it should be!!) – and as I’m a bit brain fogged link is all I can do (that previous post on the Airport was programmed ahead for my hospital sojourn.)
- First to a fluffy link refluffied which is the best thing to come out of Irish blogging in months! Lidl Treats is a new blog talking about the things you can buy in Lidl and what you can do with them! It’s very well designed, clearly written and has great pictures/graphics. I am not shy about my affection for Lidl and Aldi and my creativity with the items I purchase there and it’s great to see blogging used in this way to help convert the rest! Kate is putting it up to us today with a €50 a week for 2 shopping challenge!
- Estelle Getty died yesterday - Sophia in the Golden Girls. My sitcom of choice – Fr. Ted and Friends did my head in but Sophia, Dorothy, Blanche and Rose got me through many a difficult evening. Jill at Feministe ponders the Golden Girls and the portrayal of women.
- Senator Clinton (ah yes she’s still around you know – and not doing my head in like Obama is!)guest blogs about the Bush Administration and it’s interference with women’s health (again!) by trying to extend the definition of abortion to include emergency contraception and other contraceptive procedures.
- Temperatures in Drogheda are rising regarding the management of a children’s summer camp – Eastmeath.org tells us more.
- World By Storm over at the Cedars ponders the recent changes in payment procedures announced by the Department of Social and Family Affairs.
- In other recession blogging you might keep an eye to Michael Taft’s Notes from the Front which recently turned into the Recession Diaries – excellent reflections of a political economic nature.
Finally I’m planning something soiree like for the night of the US election (Virgo – obsessive organisational and pre-planning trait) if you want to know more leave a comment. In my perfect world it will be wired up with lovely sofas, lots of space great food, multiple tellies etc. etc.
If you’d like to sponsor it/help organise even better! Contact details are up the top – right hand side.
RIP Estelle Getty a favourite of mine closely followed by Gerry Stiller who plays Dougs father in law in King and Queens
I was sorry to hear about Estelle too, such an awful end in terms of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s! I completely agree with Jill at Feministe that the Golden Girls was a pro-feminist sit-com – more enduring and effective than Cagney and Lacey (in spite studying popular culture where I was told C&L we feminist icons!) The Golden Girls showed women how they could live and thrive in a world without men’s power – which I’m sure was important in the Irish context where women are construed as wives and mothers!
Oh, Obama does my head in too, I think he’s a complete – what’s the word twenty??? – I’ve just watched him f**k up an interview in Israel as he has got into the pooh over the status of Jerusalem (again), and the media is just purring over its saucer of milk [confused there, two new kittens arriving on the weekend, so feeling broody again; gay and catholic = five cats, you know!] Meanwhile McCain is strengthening his lead in some key states. McCain is on track, doesn’t need a fncy VP: I’d say keep an eye on Alaska, nice popular young female governor there with no baggage… a new Golden Gal?
Wow dare I say it your fluffy links are as good as the apt hunters. (Train runs into Laura at Mallow) Have to say I loved the Golden Girls, Sophia had some great oneliners. As for your election night plans I would be more than happy to help and I am sure the elite of the blogging community will be full of ideas as to where and how.
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Good work. Its allot harder than Damien makes it seem.
The costs in changing the social welfare system must be astronomical and would surely outweigh the recovered costs in “fraud” – Extra security, Extra admin for the post offices
US event night sounds interesting! – I am fascinated by those who I would consider to be far left being bedazzled by Obama
I really like Lidl too – I find it is a trial and error though – some products are superior to anything in the other super markets and some are just inferior
US election night sounds like a great idea – you know me, anything I can do to help, just shout