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Superheroes take Manhattan (not a story about Marriott management)
Supergirl and Ninja have made it to New York, a city that could use their combined skills at present. They, and the rest of Clan Magennis, left last night just after midnight on a Greyhound bus from Baltimore. Amtrak is … Continue reading
Posted in Crone in America, Culture with the Crone, Customer service, friendship, weather
Tagged aftermeth, greyhound bus, Halloween, Hotel Pennsylvania, Hurricane Sandy, Liam Neeson, marriott hotel customer service, meteorology, New York, ninja, places to stay in Manhattan, rockwell, supergirl, superhero, taken 2
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Haunted Houses at the Gettysburg Address
The Chesapeake Boys will come on Tuesday to fix the dryer but until then we must use the giant tumblers at the Itchy Ankle laundromat, a social location second only to the Snug Harbor Inn. Today, mid boil wash, I bumped … Continue reading
No more turnip lanterns
News reaches me from Spalding, Lincolnshire in the UK where they are supplying all of Europe with pumpkins for Halloween. Hurrah for Spalding. Much has been written here before of the Irish habit of hacking up turnips (also known as swedes … Continue reading
Ten Years To Remember
The papers and tv channels are full of retrospectives of the first 10 years of the century–the noughties. Those who care for the official record can check out the decade in three minutes here but the Crone offers her own stand-out … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas with the Crone, Cooking with the Crone, Culture with the Crone, diet, food, friendship, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle, The Traveling Crone, yard sale
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Halloween in Ireland
The Crone would love to tell you that ardent readers have been clamoring for more tales of a Belfast girlhood but in fact her revelations about Halloweens gone by in late 20th century Ireland have been met by worldwide indifference. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking with the Crone, Culture with the Crone, itchy ankle, Tales of a Belfast girlhood
Tagged apple fortune telling, apple tart, baking, Belfast, Blarney Crone, bogeyman, false faces, fireworks, Guy Fawkes, Halloween, Ireland, Irish History, itchy ankle, Northern Ireland, Protestant, rutabaga, South Belfast, sparklers, tales from a Belfast girlhood, the Troubles, turnip, witch
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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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Halloween in Itchy Ankle
If the Blarney Crone was writing the definitive Irish novel you would expect to be moving about between different locations and time periods but on a humble blog a certain simple respect for a linear chronology is usually expected. Sorry. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blarney Crone, blog, Halloween, Hansel and Gretel, Irish novel, itchy ankle, Rapunzel, trick or treat, witch
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Witch in social whirl
Halloween is a big time of year for the Blarney Crone and so she has been a little behind with her blogging. Last week’s yard sale find included a huge box of Stangl Orchard Song (1962-1978) china, just right for … Continue reading
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Tagged Blarney Crone, bloggin, caned chair, china, ghoulish, Halloween, Hooley, monster behinds, Stangl, Stangl Orchard Song, yard sale
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Give my head peace
The Blarney Crone is in reflective mood, following sad news from Itchy Ankle. ‘Give my head peace’. It’s something harassed Northern Irish mothers say to their kids–or at least they did in the 1960s–when the kids are whining and whingeing and … Continue reading
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Tagged andy, anoxia, Blarney Crone, Bra, craving, drinking binge, give my head peace, Halloween, hurt, itchy ankle, lovable, open arms, open bottle, oxygen supply, pancreatitis, rescusitation, sad, seizure, St Pauli Girl, trust, Walmart, whingeing, wine box
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