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none of ye wondered where i was. none of ye? i wasn’t well. Why? well its none of your busines now. and in the meanwhile the two gobshites kept at it. I told you before mcmachon yor an eejit. A big one. as for the famous landscaper… well you knoew what you can kiss? or maybe you dont. who cares.

I hear ye asking what is there to do in this town of the roadworks named bally go backwrasd? Did anyone answer you? peoples here don’t give a donuts about this place…. other wise theyd have leave a comment???

i also hear the pub is opening? is it now. well we will see. i’m not going into it. ever. the jacks is broken anyhow so why should I. And its smelly. Maybe it wont be be when it done up.

bally go backwards

Never mind that - those little gits were smashing up cars again in ballyboughil. I wish i knew their parents. smash up the call box, smash the window on the pub.. theres nothing left in the town to smash. How about i get the cavalry from one of my old John Wayne black and white VHS’s and we’ll go and do that mularky outside your house and to your window and your phone. i might be old and grumpy but your thick gobshites.

The Fingal Vintage Car Show will take place this weekend 26th and 27th July Rathmooney in Lusk.

Just go anywhere Lusk direction - it will be very well sign posted. A great family day out, not just for the car enthusiast and well worth the visit. I was there last year [and the year before and the year before....]. Dont forget the picnic!

I used to live in this town. I lived in The Queens Hotel. I still have very [very] fond memories of the place. I had moved there on my own to work for Aberdeenshire Council. [The harbour webcam click here is worth a view.]

But it was and still is the people who make any place what it is. ‘Stonie’ is one for that reason that is quite special to me. I still miss you all dearly and but for the fact that I had to grow up [?!], I would probably never have moved. And if it wasn’t for literally ‘bumping’ into Ronnie ‘Flago’ I’d never have met anyone…

I’d moved there with everything I owned in my car. Drove from Dubln-Belfast-Abeerdeen, Stonehaven where I was to start work on Monday. After a night almost sleeping in my car, it was now Saturday and I had nowhere to live. Nearing lunchtime when everything closed, semi broke [i'd enough-ish] and now walking the streets I met a guy [Ronnie] coming out of a shop that was being refurbished and offered in desperation [after telling my lone journey story] to rent the concrete floors overhead. The floors weren’t his. He did however send me down to ‘Big’ Tom in The Queens Hotel. Tom was out. Come back in an hour said the 2 wifeys [!]. I did. An apartment overhead. sorted. One must appreciate the two caravan parks were full… even for tents. This was my only hope. I ended up workng behind the bar for Tom [as well as The Council] most evenings and weekends….

I suppose one might say it’s the people fom that place who will remain in my heart.

If you are going on holidays - don’t miss it! It’s not rock and roll, but it is magnificient.

To those of you who remember me [can you ever forget?!] , have a Guinness, have a good laugh and I’m sorry I was so shite at playing pool!

Slán agus beannacht - peter [ps this ones for you, you know who you are]

There is a new kid on the block packing a whole lot of punch that even your local tree hugger would embrace. It looks the business, its mean, its sporty, in fact its got so much torque they’ve had to design a 3rd generation transmission to keep it under control.

It will stand up and roll over to any competition on Irish Roads, XKR’s, Aston Martins, BMW, Mercedes etc and its battery powered, yes think duracell bunny on speed.

Its the Tesla Roadster, wait, get this… its 100% electric, t goes from 0-60 mph (not kilometers) in 4 seconds, it has a faster over taking acceleration speed (between 30-70 mph) than any other production car AND does roughly 135 miles to the gallon, which is less than 2 cents (USD) per mile as Robert Scoble said WOW!

Robert had the pleasure of not just your average test drive, he got to witness the cars true wild side in a Santa Monica street race against Jason Calacanis in a Corvette, see photo of Jason standing behind his Corvette below.

The lads go one better by using QIK to stream live video of the event onto the Web.

Check out Jasons QIK video introducing Robert as he goes for a ride in the Tesla

See Roberts fly on the wall QIK video from within the Tesla.

We’re all looking to go more eco friendly on th Emerald Isle, using those oddly coloured wheelie bins but lets be honest Smart Cars just didn’t cut it. They may be practical but man they are goofy. Take a look at the Tesla Roadster, its a babe in knee high boots, you’ll turn, you’ll look, you’ll stare, you’ll bite your lip as you run you hand along its lines and wish like a school boy.

The bad news is I’d say the nearest distributor will be UK based (I hope not), and then we have the refueling recharging problem I don’t know of any capable stations in Dublin or Ireland. I wonder (bit of a fantasy going on here) if it would be possible to charge at home, if so that would be awesome and a serious unique selling point.

Robert says on his post Tesla is working on a sedan (saloon) model costing around 50, 000 USD which is roughly €34,000. Thats very reasonable when you consider the fuel economy.

If the government had any brains they could encourage companies to consider these as fleet cars, or go one step further and work with the Irish Taxi Federation to encourage its members to move over from conventional fuels by granting the drivers with the same value tax credit equivalent over a 3 year period.

Check out Roberts original post here, you can almost feel his excitement and buzz!