Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

[Barnfred 55]

I woke this morning from a couple of restless nights due to too much food and booze but did a test just to be sure (before going to my Mum’s).

Mad how much you can knock your system off with just a couple of days excess.

Still struggling now mate. I was overly excessive on Xmas day though, starting around noon and still going at 3am. It was a real sesh that I'm getting way too old for now. Should be ok by tomorrow hopefully.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Still struggling now mate. I was overly excessive on Xmas day though, starting around noon and still going at 3am. It was a real sesh hat I'm getting way too old for now. Should be ok by tomorrow hopefully.

Overdoing it is everyone’s bag at Christmas but you had a hard year mate and deserved a blow out.

Your posts on the Liverpool music scene has given me a few bands to dig out back catalogues over the next couple of weeks I’m off- cheers!

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Not a great fan myself Anj. It's a bit too sickly for me. Think it's the Bailey's so I guess it would be the same with Tia Maria. My sister used to drink Cointreau and ice and that's it. These day's she'll also have a white wine or bottle of beer, but for years it was Cointreau with ice or nothing.

Yeah I remember the name Fletchers, but can't remember going there. I'm sure I must have. What was that other place in Bold Street where they served you chicken or scampi in the basket. Was it something like The Odd Spot.

There is a Fletchers Bar in Liverpool now Anj. It's at the Allerton Manor, which is the old Allerton Municipal Golf Club which was taken over about 5 years ago. It's really quite good for food. Not sure where your dad lives in Liverpool but if it is in the South it's well worth a visit next time you're up. Do you still have friends here that you meet up with when you visit?

My Dad lives off Aigburth Road - down by Otterspool Prom and near the Liverpool cricket Club. He's lived in south Liverpool all his life. His parents were Irish and came over from Ireland just before he was born. They ran a few pubs in the Park Road/Mill Street area when he was a kid.
Weirdly most of my friends who I stay in touch with from Liverpool have also moved away from Liverpool to various parts of the UK. I've got loads of family still in Liverpool so next time I go out with any of them I'll suggest Allerton Manor.

I think it was The Odd Spot. I don't think I ever went there though.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

My Dad lives off Aigburth Road - down by Otterspool Prom and near the Liverpool cricket Club. He's lived in south Liverpool all his life. His parents were Irish and came over from Ireland just before he was born. They ran a few pubs in the Park Road/Mill Street area when he was a kid.
Weirdly most of my friends who I stay in touch with from Liverpool have also moved away from Liverpool to various parts of the UK. I've got loads of family still in Liverpool so next time I go out with any of them I'll suggest Allerton Manor.

I think it was The Odd Spot. I don't think I ever went there though.

Where are your grandparents from?

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I attempted cooking today. Jamie Oliver Boxing Day turkey quesadillas. What a bloody disaster. "dry fry the quesadillas until golden on one side. Turn over and fry the other side" They stuck to the frying pan when I tried to flip them over there was a hole in them and all the filling fell out. Gave it to the cat. Ate cold turkey, salami, proscuitto ham and cheese and crackers.

 

[Barnfred 55]

My Dad lives off Aigburth Road - down by Otterspool Prom and near the Liverpool cricket Club. He's lived in south Liverpool all his life. His parents were Irish and came over from Ireland just before he was born. They ran a few pubs in the Park Road/Mill Street area when he was a kid.
Weirdly most of my friends who I stay in touch with from Liverpool have also moved away from Liverpool to various parts of the UK. I've got loads of family still in Liverpool so next time I go out with any of them I'll suggest Allerton Manor.

I think it was The Odd Spot. I don't think I ever went there though.

It's amazing how much we have in common Anj. My mum was irish too and came from Naas. She moved here when she was about 20 and married my dad towards the end of the war.

What local pubs did you frequent when you weren't in town or getting hammered in Birkenhead? lol

 

[tommye]

He's lived in south Liverpool all his life

Where all the best people come from

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Where are your grandparents from?

Cork. A place called Ballineen if I remember rightly.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

It's amazing how much we have in common Anj. My mum was irish too and came from Naas. She moved here when she was about 20 and married my dad towards the end of the war.

What local pubs did you frequent when you weren't in town or getting hammered in Birkenhead? lol

Used to mostly drink in Woolton Village or Gateacre. the Elephant, the Baby Elephant, Coach and Horses, The Bear's Paw, The Black Bull, The Gateacre Grange. Occasionally would go to The Greenhills, (first place I ever got drunk!) or have one in The Kingsman before getting the bus into town.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Where all the best people come from

Of course

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Cork. A place called Ballineen if I remember rightly.

The Rebel County, can’t say I have been to Ballineen though.

It's amazing how much we have in common Anj. My mum was irish too and came from Naas. She moved here when she was about 20 and married my dad towards the end of the war.

What local pubs did you frequent when you weren't in town or getting hammered in Birkenhead? lol

Lovely town and let me tell you that is a rich part of the world.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

The Rebel County, can’t say I have been to Ballineen though.


Lovely town and let me tell you that is a rich part of the world.

My Grandfather . who I never met - he died when my Dad was 11 was very involved in the Irish Independence movement. I remember some years ago when Lansdowne Road was being refurbished there was a lot of controversy about the English rugby team playing at Croke Park. The killings at Croke Park in 1920 were mentioned a lot. Somehow I had already heard about this. I can only think that my Irish Granny had told me about it.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

My Grandfather . who I never met - he died when my Dad was 11 was very involved in the Irish Independence movement. I remember some years ago when Lansdowne Road was being refurbished there was a lot of controversy about the English rugby team playing at Croke Park. The killings at Croke Park in 1920 were mentioned a lot. Somehow I had already heard about this. I can only think that my Irish Granny had told me about it.

21 November 1920.

A Tipperary player was killed that day on the pitch (Michael Hogan) and 100 years on in 2020 Tipp won their first Munster title since that fateful day.

Talk about history directing a result.

 

[Barnfred 55]

The Rebel County, can’t say I have been to Ballineen though.


Lovely town and let me tell you that is a rich part of the world.

I think my cousins own a large part of it lol

I stayed there for 2 weeks in the summer of 85 in my Aunties. She lived in the middle of nowhere, in an old cottage on a stud farm. The next door neighbours were a mile down the road. The house had no running water and the toilet was a wooden hut outside with a hole in a bench that you threw ammonia down after you'd been. lol It had an Inglenook that you could look right up with wooden benches either side. My two cousins, who were still living with their mum at the time, took their holidays to coincide with me being there so they could show me a good time. It was grande, as they would have said.

I also had an uncle I visited who lived down in a place called Castletownbere in Co Cork, not too far from where Anj's grandparents lived.

My Auntie who lived outside Naas was called Daisy, and my uncle in Co Cork was Paddy. I kid you not.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

I think my cousins own a large part of it lol

I stayed there for 2 weeks in the summer of 85 in my Aunties. She lived in the middle of nowhere, in an old cottage on a stud farm. The next door neighbours were a mile down the road. The house had no running water and the toilet was a wooden hut outside with a hole in a bench that you threw ammonia down after you'd been. lol It had an Inglenook that you could look right up with wooden benches either side. My two cousins, who were still living with their mum at the time, took their holidays to coincide with me being there so they could show me a good time. It was grande, as they would have said.

I also had an uncle I visited who lived down in a place called Castletownbere in Co Cork, not too far from where Anj's grandparents lived.

My Auntie who lived outside Naas was called Daisy, and my uncle in Co Cork was Paddy. I kid you not.

Kildare is the flattest county in Ireland hence the huge horse racing industry there. Kildare Village is a designer shopping centre as well flagging the money about.

Naas is fast becoming a Dublin commuter town and that changes the whole vibe of the place eventually.

Ireland is unrecognisable now from the 80s despite the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.

Castletownbere most famous for the lifeboat station but there endith my knowledge of it.