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A Yearning for the UK’s third largest snack manufacturer
I am thinking I need to go home to Northern Ireland. The reason? Well, of course I’d like to see my aged father, my aunt what brung me up and all my other friends and family but, as usual, my … Continue reading
Posted in Culture with the Crone, Customer service, Dangerous Obsessions, fat, food, Tales of a Belfast girlhood, You can take the Crone out of Ireland
Tagged Co Armagh, Facebook, food, Northern Ireland, northern ireland food, Northern Ireland industry, northern ireland marketing, salty snacks, snacks, Tandragee, Tayto, Tayto cheese and onion, Tayto crisps, Tayto Rough Cuts
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Igneous activity abroad, armed police action at home–meanwhile in Itchy Ankle there’s still time to vacuum the cat.
It has been a funny old week in the nation’s capital, Itchy Ankle and everywhere downwind of Iceland. Let’s start with events in Washington DC: Please don’t be alarmed to learn that last Sunday night the Crone woke up to … Continue reading
Posted in Crone in the Nation's capital, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel
Tagged American Presidents, armed police, ash, Bahamas, Blarney Crone, Bob Marley, called the police, Captain Kirk, Chesapeake boys, cloud of ash, DC police, Facebook, Haile Selassie, iceland, igneous activity, intruder, itchy ankle, nothing ever happens, President Buchanan, President Woodrow Wilson, South of France, Spud Hughes, volcano, Washington DC
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Seven Letters across the Atlantic.
In which Doris becomes a Facebook Friend and learns the ropes of Lexulous Dear Blabs, These days ‘a night on the tiles’ for Flo and I means an evening hunched over a Scrabble board. You are a veritable Leonard Sachs … Continue reading
Posted in Crone as Pen Pal
Tagged Appleton Marsh, Atlantic, Doris Brazil, Facebook, Lexulous, seven letter words
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As large as life and twice as cheerful.
Take two tables, each shaped like a slice of melon and place one of them in Boxborough MA and one in Phoenix AZ. Add the magic of Cisco Telepresence, three 65 inch television screens, and some eerily good audio and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture with the Crone, Transparency Towers
Tagged AZ, Blarney Crone, blog, board portals, boards, Boston, Cisco Telepresence, directors, Facebook, Jessica Lipnack, Lexulous, linkedin, master class, NACD, New England, North East, Phoenix, Scott Greenburg, South West, twitter
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On Oscar, Alice and Black-Eyed Susans: A letter to Doris Brazil
Blabs, I am so pleased that the moisturiser reached you. I do so share your frustration with itchy spots. The older I get the more cracks in inaccessible places I seem to acquire. Anybody who knows me will tell you … Continue reading
Posted in Crone in America, Culture with the Crone, diet, food, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, The Crone as Television Critic
Tagged 3D, a lifetime on the hips, a moment on the lips, Alice in Wonderland, Appleton Marsh, back 40, Balenciaga, black eyed susans, Blarney Crone, candy, Chesapeake bay, clay soil, confectionary, crape myrtles, David Rockwell, day lilies, Doris Brazil, Facebook, food, fudge, gardening, Gretel, Hampstead, Harry Winston, Helena Bonham Carter, hostas, Johnny Depp, Little Britain, London, Mad Hatter, Matt Lucas, organic slug deterrent, Oscars, red carpet, salt water taffy, Sawhorse Marilyn, slugs, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, West Country
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A great story on the subject of two countries divided by a common language
The Crone loves this response to her Prophylactic Shock posting sent by a Facebook friend in the UK. He writes: “My favo(u)rite story concerns a British guy visiting our American HQ for the first time. He wanted to smoke before our meeting and … Continue reading
Relative Values–A Seniors’ Guide to Social Networking
The Crone is pleased and proud to note that her father, aged 82, now has his own Facebook page. This does not make him the world’s oldest social networker but must surely have him on the substitute benches. Naturally, being reserved and … Continue reading
Posted in Blarney Family, Culture with the Crone, friendship, Tales of a Belfast girlhood
Tagged A Senior's guide to social networking, BFF, Blarney Brides, Blarney Crone, Blarney diaspora, Facebook, family, Happy New Year, Presbyterian, Uncles, world's oldest facebook user, world's oldest social networker
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Leading from the Digital Edge
Humans have always liked to share their views, get involved, meddle and kvetch–and as recent wikileaks events have shown, now there’s no stopping them. I’m all for it. In real life I am always desperate to be involved in other people’s business … Continue reading →