Wedding anniversaries and lovely Roses from Tralee
It really is the only way to spend your bronze wedding anniversary. On the couch, the wife using you as a pillow whilst she rolls her eyes and comments on how its possible to fit so many teeth in one mouth whilst you sip tea and wonder how the Dublin one isn’t favourite. To summarise for those of you who missed the first night of the Rose of Tralee, the roses I remember in a few words. If its pictures you’re after off with ya to www.roseoftralee.ie.
Cork - One of my favs, lovely girl although her fluting, is that even a word?, wasn’t the best.
San Francisco - 19, mad father who wears a tiara and studies anthropology.
Louth - Karol Ann, freed from the confines of the telly and a poltergeist, turned out to be a lovely girl. Although she did wax lyrical about Deloitte & Touche a bit much.
Boston and New England - She walked about CPA, I slept, I woke about at the bit about rollerskating waitresses and promptly fell back asleep when
she spoke of yet more accounts.
New Jersey - Lazy Langigans gets even lazier, she wants to open a chain of pubs with that name. A character and not as bad as I had thought.
Dublin - My fav, definetly. How she ended up in the Rose Festival though is beyond me as she has character. See-saw Theatre Company, a company of actors with learning disabilities.
New Zealand - She danced for 4 years with Riverdance, I love her. Although she’s blond. But still, looks like she’d be mighty craic of a night out. Although when she challenged you to
a dance off perhaps not so much craic.
Coventry - A clumsy young wan, set fire to her mum’s jacket on the parade the previous day. Hilarous moment , we just had to be there.
Washington D.C - Cheerleader who wants to work in Intelligence. I think that sums her up really. And she dazzled us with her cheerleading ’skills’ . Never
again will I look on them as blonde bimbos. I was ‘wowed’ with the difficult up-down movement of the arms.
South Australia - Her claim to fame is that she has served pints in Paudi O’Shea’s bar in Ventry. And she’ll be back. Whether to serve them or to drink them I don’t know.
Kerry - The crowd favourite cause its in Kerry and all that jazz. Seemed nervous and sure Ray didn’t make things any easier on the poor chicken when he asked how she
felt about her mother passing away?!
Texas - Lesbian in a dress, sorry did I say that out loud?! She’s the tallest Rose at 5′ 11 and sure there was many a joke about her being tall and Ray being small…you get the
idea
Dubai - Did you know that 65% of the world cranes are in Dubai? Nope? Neither did I. Next Rose.
Liverpool - Originally from Cavan, she brought the GAA to liverpool. Also speaks the coupla focal, sure she’s a lovely lass. When she sings in her local pub, sometimes she forgets
the words and just throws in any ould irish phrases, the mad fecker.
Derry - A teacher and she enjoys football, I can’t even remember her, we must have been getting near the end at this stage.
Perth - I think I saw her in Home and Away once or maybe not, she’s into snowboarding and thinks its waaaaay cooler then sking. God Bless her cottens.
So there you have the first lot, and the next troop will be on in about an hour, when the fav will be hoping to win over the judges. She is from Tipp though so she’s starting off at a disadvantage. Whilst I am doing this I am avoiding work. Its not bad really, I’ve been working solidly all day on the day job but my other work also require some attention. However I am having one of those days, whereby I want to do nothing. I fear I may have taxed the brain too much with all that thinking earlier in the day. The project deadline looms Friday week and at the moment I am track. I say at the moment, and without going into too much detail and boring you to death much like the Rose from Boston and New England, I reckon we may have to pick up some of the slack from a lazy work colleague. Lazy doesn’t begin to cover it, but it will do for the moment. When the boss is not around, they just don’t bother
showing up. Their workload is fairly big and they are going on holidays on Thursday. My review is on Friday. My last few reviews have been very easy going for the boss but this time I am
too annoyed to let things continue as they do.
The kid has another 2 interviews for pharmacy. I am thinking two things as a result of this astonishing piece of news. The pharmacy industry is a new and exciting development and they want to take on as many young people as they can OR they can’t hold on to people. Hmmm…I wonder. Anyhew, at least she’s putting herself out there. She’s been 2 weeks off her anti-depressants. She decided to go off them herself to see if she really needed them and I have to say fair play to her as she seems grand. Thank god, I was really hoping she would be weaned off them soon enough as she’s been on them since she was 15 and I think it was really just to get her through school. Sometimes I get annoyed talking to people about her. For example we joke that she gets money off us. Sometimes obviously. Then we get the “Oh sure I had to work for everything, my parents helped me out alright, but ” etc etc, you get the picture. I wasn’t asking for your bloody sob story, I was telling you about the kid?! I almost want to say “Well, can I ask you something, lets see put your mother in hospital for around 11 months, then let her pass away and oh your father, well he’s not around anymore because he’s a useless fecker.” But I refrain from that and I let people natter on. Whilst plotting their demise in my head. Its why I tend to steer away from talking about her. Why oh why do people ask about her when they don’t really want to hear? I don’t get it?! I best go do some work and then prepare myself and a few hours of the lovely girls of tralee. Don’t forget to watch it!
