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First Irish Fetish Flea Market.
Time: 29 January · 14:00 – 18:00
Location: Outhouse, 105 Capel St, Dublin 1.
Welcome to the First Irish Fetish Flea Market.
A Place to sell leather, rubber, uniforms, boots, toys (except dildos, or the like, for health reasons… even if they are new and still in original wrappers), books, DVDs, bondage gear… etc.There are two aspects to the Flea Market. The first if it gives anyone with old, unused or unwanted fetish gear an opportunity to sell it for a bit of cash. Second, it gives people a chance to …buy gear, especially anyone new to the Fetish scene wanting to start their collection.
We will take anything related to fetish… leather, rubber, uniforms, boots, toys (except dildos, or the like, for health reasons… even if they are new and still in original wrappers), books, DVDs, bondage gear… etc.
Sellers have two options. If they have a lot to sell they can take a table at €10 (to cover cost of hiring the venue). Sellers wishing to take a table should register before the day of the Flea Market (khayden@iol.ie). Or if they only have a small number of items to sell they can leave them with us to sell on their behalf. The fee is €2 per item and they can bring them along on the day, preferably before the Flea Market starts at 2pm.
Many people order things of the internet and when it arrives find it’s not really what they wanted or that they never get around to using it or find that it’s not really what they are into after all. So this is a change to have a bring and buy sale and is also a way to support Outhouse.
First new/dark moon of the year and a Solar Eclipse.
The birth of a bike.
There are no more kids bikes or trikes in the house. Santa dropped this off in a box and
we then had the fun of assembling it. Doing that has given it’s owner a wonderful insight
into how the mechanics of various parts of the bike work and ideally she will be able to
do a lot of the care and maintenance of it herself as she grows.
I got a big bike when I was her age and it mean freedom, I travelled for miles and miles
and so many trips to the local library I could not possibly count. There are a lot more
cars on the roads these days, so how far we shall let her cycle is something else to ponder
but I will be continuing the family tradition of making her learn the rules of the road
before she is allowed cycle outside of the estate.
Our Yule Tree
This evening after the departure of my paramour and before my ex arrived home with the kids from his grandparents where they had spent the new years weekend it was just me rattling around the house. Trying to adjust to being Mammy again and for looking after everyone else after a weekend of of it just being the two of us and doing as we pleased. When the kids are here the house has a definate mode and routine and it was nice to sit and be still and not have to be thinking ahead to what has to be done.
The tree was late going up this year, with the ‘seasonal’ weather there was delay in the crop getting to market so it was a while later then I had wanted that we finally got the tree. Yes a real one, we always have a real one, it’s the smell and tradition and part of what makes it Yule for me. Tomorrow we will start giving the new presents acquired new homes so that they no longer sprawl over so much of the sitting room floor.
Also in the shot is Crochett project I have been working on. I guess I feel less guilty about sitting on my arse watching stuff if I have the hook and wool out. Yes it’s a scarf, yes it’s a soccer scarf and in I am told the colours of Tottenham hotspurs. spurs as the man in my life likes to called them but I have nick named them Tottie to annoy him. While I have no time for soccer in general I am making him what is i believed refereed to as a Terrance scarf. Love is…
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 76 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 374 posts. There were 14 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 48mb. That’s about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was May 27th with 73 views. The most popular post that day was “Ten things an Irish woman could not do in 1970” .
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were boards.ie, twitter.com, facebook.com, digg.com, and slashingtongue.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for thaedydal, vulva model, by the power of greyskull she-ra, aviva stadium, and feminism in ireland.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
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“Ten things an Irish woman could not do in 1970” May 2010
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2
Symphysiotomy covered by Primetime finally. February 2010
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“For the honor of Grayskull!” She-Ra is 25 year old. October 2010
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So the new Aviva stadium is finally finished… May 2010
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Sister of Mercy excommunicated for being well merciful. May 2010
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Photo a day for a year.
Having enjoyed other people doing this I am going to give this a bash it will also push me to post more and not leave things lingering in draughts.
After the 1 bottle I had newyears eve we wandered to the shop again and picked up a box, 20 quid for a box of 12 500ml bottles of 5.2% dark beer and it is yummy the day has been spent drinking hobgoblin and watching Community. Each episode is only 22 mins long but each had me laughing out loud at least 3 times. It was good just to sit on the sofa and be in each other’s company with no plans, no deadline and no were to rush to or from.
MineCraft and my brats.
This has been a huge hit in our house and with a lot of my gamer friends.
Both kids have their own accounts and work together and with others to build, mine and explore. It’s been my daughters first foray into online servers for a pc game and it’s going well. Yes she has discovered asshats but is learning that as with real life if you don’t like how people are playing there comes a point where you walk away.
She has been playing that more then online games for the xbox as chat is the norm on xbox live and she no longer wants to be in a situation where she gets hassle for being a girl and young and playing on xbox live.
This doesn’t happen with Minecraft, both my brats know well how to stay safe online and not to give out info and how to quit any conversation they are not happy with and how to block people who are annoying asshats and to be careful they aren’t the annoying asshat.
Notch/Markus Alexej Persson (the creator of minecraft) currently is the desktop picture on my son’s pc. It seems that he may have replaced Peter Molyneux as the person he wants to be when he grows up. Yes Santa is bringing Fable 3 but the indie start up of Minecraft has certainly captured his imagination and at almost 13 he has already decided that he wants to do Computer Applications in TCD and then the MA in game development in DIT.
Minecraft is giving them both a chance to have control and crate the virtual environments they play in. They have both toyed around with level editors for games, usually race track games but the scope of minecraft is something they keep coming back to.
And they are not alone, they are reading the wikis and sharing knowledge on how to make and create things with others who log on to the sever to share the experience. I guess I have to face up to the fact my kids are pretty much immersed in gaming culture esp when I dragged from the kitchen to
watch this.
Minecraft and country music, my daughter is thrilled and is doing her best to learn all the words, I guess that will join Jonathan Coulton‘s song ‘Still Alive‘ from portals as a sing along in the car song.
I guess I don’t write that much about the types and amount of gaming we do esp as a family, I guess I should. So be warned there will be more posts.
/ Personal Daily Horoscope of Monday, 20 December 2010
http://www.astro.com
At a critical point
The energies in your life are reaching a culmination now. This is the time to try to bring your affairs to a climax, but do not expect to escape opposition from other people, for others have ambitions that may be in conflict with yours.
Even with those aspects of your life that have been working out well and are now reaching a climax, you are not yet past the critical point. To achieve is one thing, but to incorporate these achievements into your life and make them part of your personal growth is something else.
You have built structures and organized your life in various ways, and now you will experience the consequences of these structures as they begin to react and influence your life. Yet you still have the creative power to determine how your own creations will recreate you.
I swear I only read this now, I am laughing crying or is that crying laughing.
Hibernating, sort of.
The last two weeks have been listening to who killed Amanda Palmer pretty much on a loop and doing what needs doing (essentials like cooking, washing and the cleaning up after cooking) in the house and a bit of painting to make me feel like I am not in some weird sort of limbo.
I have been doing a lot of reading, worked my way through all the 40K black library Eisenhorn books and then I thought I would take a break from scifi to alternate history fantasy, which I have a soft spot for and very much enjoyed The Queens Bastard but that weirdly turns out to be scifi also, sort of, I am still scratching my head at the twist on that one.
I have been briefly out of the house, as far as the shops and I did get out last weekend to the annual Santa Strike Force comedy fundraiser gig.There was a good turn out despite the weather and more money was raised then last year which is great.
The acts who all preformed for free were good and I laughed a lot more then I expected and there were good jokes about the internet and sites and online communities which were not having a go. I did how ever feel that night that I am now old/older. There are now groups of people who are 10/15 years younger then I and the cultural gap I find is growing.
One of the comedians make a joke about the pinball machine in the corner in reference to the movie the accused and a whole section of the room didn’t get the reference. I guess over the last year being 35 and susposedly properly grown up is being reinforced a tad by that gap. It’s just a bit odd.
Wednesday I was lucky enough to get tickets to go see Tron:Legacy in Savoy 1 thanks to a competition which ran on boards.ie and brought the kids with me. We got home work done and then sat for an hour on the bus into town. I had promised the kids sushi the next time we were in town so it was was off to Kim chi on Parnell street where we had dinner and then on to the Savoy.
Neither of them fidgeted through out the movie, which means they really were engrossed. Daft Punk do a lot of the music for the sound track and they would be my daughters favourite band, they also appear in the movie, so there were huge grins when they were on screen.
The movie has caused some very intresting conversations with my kids, on a whole range of topics which to my mind means it is proper scifi.
Getting out I guess has been pretty important as over the last 2 weeks with the weather how it is and no sign of it shifting and the lack of sun light it had started to feel like I was in a dream or limbo or some sort of hell where it is always winter but never Christmas.
But hopefully we will get out again to go see the new Narina movie shortly enough.