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Belated 30th brithday pics

Yes, it was sooo last year, well actually it was sometime over the Christmas period when Ballyboughals Iano hit the 30th milestone and celebrated up in Kettles Country House. Sorry for the pic quality some are good some a shit, blame the iPhone camera.

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The Quit Smoking Game…?

Found this over on the Look and Taste Blog….

Seriously addictive…. the game that is. Here’s what Niall had to say:

Thought I would share a little game with you all today that although not strictly to do with food it does come in the health and wellness section and anything that can help you give up smoking [...]

Practical Joke or Gurilla Marketing

Red Velvet pinkmobile

For the quiet village that Ballyboughal is, it gets a lot of daily traffic.  People from north of Swords take the “back roads” that wind through Ballyboughal to get to the back of the airport without getting stuck in traffic trying to get onto to the M1 at the Donabate junction.

This caught my [...]

How do you get men to wash their hands?

Would you use this sink?

This is a cracking photo I came across yesterday, either the creator is highly creative or warped.  The thing is what would be the opposite for women?  Yeah right I hear ya already saying women always wash [...]

A Gardening Class ...?

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Over the last weeks I’ve been researching chatting with some friends about gardening and the usual how to bits of outdoor advice.

From those conversations came the suggestion that I should do a crash course of some format in ‘gardening‘.

I did teach horticulture and courses before. But this class request or what one should get at [...]

Neighbours Be Aware

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It seems very recently there has been a bit of a spate of break ins in the community.

Nothing new there in society you might say…. That said, not nice when it happens and not something I even like mentioning here on Ballyboughal.net

The services offered like tarmac [no offence to those reputable in the trade] [...]

Help Peter Find A Home For This….

remember this… see here for more images and information on no rubber soul -

I was talking with John last week – that would be John Friel, the brains behind turning some of my ‘other’ idea[s] into reality – this one he was most famed for.

Turns out, after being in storage for two years [this year] [...]

Garden Group Tour ***Closed***

***closed***

Unknowns to me, the lovely people of the Final Indo printed a blog article – borrowed from the blog here and over the course of the weekend – half the population of North Dublin either rang or called to my house.

UNFORTUNATELY….I am limited to 18 people. And all places for this tour filled after 3 [...]