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How do you get to Love?
I was driving out of D.C. on New York Avenue and Gretel was beside me in the passenger seat, staring wistfully out the window. “How do you get to Love?” she asked ” How do you get to Love?” I … Continue reading
Murder at Midnight–The Bedroom Habits of the Blarney Crone
“People are murdered all night long in your room” said Gretel disapprovingly, and I’m afraid she is right. As befits a woman of a certain age, I have developed an affection for Discovery ID (in truth, the only Discovery channel … Continue reading
Iphone, Iphone, take my call: who’s the fairest of them all?
I write from 30, 000 feet, thanks to the wifi service available on my American Airlines flight to San Diego via Dallas Fort Worth. The floating on air feeling is welcome, because the week since my vacation ended has been rather … Continue reading
Posted in Crone as Casualty, Crone in the Nation's capital, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, Life's vexations, overweight, Transparency Towers
Tagged aging, American airlines, beauty, Blarney Crone, Dallas Fort Worth, Gretel, inflight wifi, iphone, mother daughter, san diego, Washington DC, work
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Clean ears, dirty habits and the course of true love
When Gretel was a little girl, she found ice-skating most relaxing. Her teacher used to ask Gretel to imagine herself twirling round and round at the sculpture garden rink on the National Mall when she felt herself losing her temper. Gretel … Continue reading
Posted in Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel
Tagged Blarney Crone, break-ups, clean ears, DC, dirty habits, Gretel, ice-skating, national mall, Q-tips, Sculpture garden, skating rink, True love
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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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Texting in Irish
The Crone notices that she has texted Gretel in the following way: “ok if oi pick you up at 11?” This could be a simple typo, or perhaps the Crone even texts in an Irish accent?
Posted in Culture with the Crone, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel
Tagged Blarney Crone, Gretel, Irish accent, texting, texting in irish
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A Sledgehammer to crack a nut
The Crone is tonight watching the Dallas Cowboys play the Washington Redskins–Gretel’s choice of viewing, for despite her DC heritage she is an ardent Cowboys fan. The Crone is eating nuts and is pondering the expression ” A sledgehammer to crack a … Continue reading
A half baked story of wee buns
In Northern Ireland there is an expression used to indicate that an activity will present no challenge at all. The expression is “Wee buns”. So, if some one asks you to do something you consider easy peasy, you respond ” … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking with the Crone, food, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, Life's vexations
Tagged baking, Belfast venacular, Blarney Crone, centigrade, Crocker, cup cakes, fahrenheit, fairy cakes. American English, Gretel, imperial, metricm, Nigella Lawson Domestic Goddess, Northern Ireland, reading the recipe, wee buns
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Halloween and the perils of vampire kisses and hot wax
The Crone, visited last night by a Vampire and two of his faceless friends, found herself in conversation with the undead. ” It’s bad being a vampire” said the toothy terror ” You live forever” “Yes” said the Crone ” And … Continue reading
Posted in Blarney Family, Culture with the Crone, food, itchy ankle, Tales of a Belfast girlhood
Tagged Belfast, Blarney Crone, church on Sunday, Gretel, Halloween, Heloise, hot wax, Housekeeping tip, Ireland, itchy ankle, Northern Ireland, Presbyterian, pumpkin, Rapunzel, removing spilt wax from fabric, rutabaga, Scream, teen vampires, turnip, Twilight movie, Vampire, vampire kisses
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