"This blog is not necessarily for lovers of art, it includes a variety of topics and whatever. I'm a painter who likes to know what's really going on in the world today. So you might find anything from Shamrocks to Salmiakki mentioned here on my blog. There will of course be some boring, factual and informational posts, but I'll keep them to a minimum, I promise!
Around this time last year (April 8th 2017 to be exact) I popped in to buy a signed copy of Imelda May's latest album 'Life, Love, Flesh, Blood'. A quick meeting, it was nice to meet such a talented singer and nice person too. Her album is great and the voice is amazing. Favourite song from the album is 'Levitate', mainly because it reminds me of the old James Bond movie themes! This great tune is accompanied by a wonderful collection of songs which come together to make this album a really good addition to any record collection! Almost forgot, there's a great collaboration on the song 'Black Tears' with the amazing Jeff Beck. Definately check that one out!!
Here's a clip of Imelda May's album signing at Tower records on Dawson street, Dublin last year.
While chatting at her record signing I mentioned that I was home from Finland to see my parents and told her my father wasn't well. She kindly asked me to pass on her best wishes to him. She even asked me to say hi to all in Finland. ,,,A nice person!
Imelda May's record signing queue in Tower Records.
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Over the past few years I have often heard Irish people talk and reminisce about the warm summers of the mid-1970's and early 1980's. I often rambled on about it myself sometimes. Well, after this summer of 2013 I reckon all that might quiet down a little. Last month was one of the warmest Julys in recorded history of Irish weather and I had the luck to be on holidays right there when it all happened. I want to post a few photos on my blog here for my own record and also just to show the world that Ireland can be a wonderful place when she gets some sunshine! (okay, it can be a pretty good place without the sun too!) I went on a little roadtrip from Dublin to the west coast of Ireland with some friends from Finland. It was really great to show my home country at it's best and I think the Finns enjoyed it. Also it was their first ever visit to Ireland, so a bit extra-special! I don't like to do on-the-spot travel blogs as I am usually too busy enjoying myself to start typing. But over the next few entries in my blog I will post some photos of the places I visited, including County Galway, County Clare, the Aran Islands, Kilkenny City and firstly my hometown Dublin.
Lambay island, off the coast of Dublin.
Coastal rocks near Malahide in County Dublin
View over Dublin from Deer Park Golf club in Howth, County Dublin.
View of lighthouse from Howth summit in County Dublin.
View of Dublin Bay from Howth summit.
Dublin Bay on a sunny day in July.
After arrival in Dublin, it was off to John Kavanagh's pub also know as the Gravediggers because of it's proximity to the Glasnevin cemetary next door. Here's what was going on at the cemetary gates while I supped on my pint of Guinness. The Ghostbus is doing a tour with shots of alcohol being passed around to it's passengers to keep them awake. (below)
Gravediggers Ghostbus at Glasnevin cemetary.
While I've been to visit my family back in suburban Dublin on many occasions over the past few years, I reckon it must be over 4 years since I have actually gone into Dublin's city centre. Unfortunately I only spent one day there, but this time as a tourist!
Moore street, Dublin
The famous GPO (General Post Office) and the infamous Spire on O'Connell St.
Interior of the GPO (General Post Office)
Statue of Daniel O'Connell
Trinity College, Dublin
Old parlimentary building, now the Bank of Ireland.
Ron Black's Dawson Lounge: Dublin's smallest pub Take a look inside on this Norwegian news video below.
Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin
St.Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
The Church of Guinness, Dublin ... you can almost smell it's goodness!
The gates of heaven
Lost souls follow the signs!
The Wellington Monument in the Pheonix Park, Dublin.
The Real White House . The President of Ireland's House
Old Jameson whiskey distillery, Dublin.
The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin
Grounds of Trinity College, Dublin
Viking splash tour, for our scandinavian cousins!
Molly Malone
Wicklow street, Dublin
Georges Street Arcade
Hogan's bar, South Great Georges Street, Dublin
Correct Time at The Long Hall pub on South Great Georges Street
South Great Georges Street, Dublin
Temple Bar area
Oliver St.John Gogarty Pub Nice pub, but the biggest rip-off in Dublin!
Hard Rock Cafe, Dublin. Don't expect to get inside with so many students about!
Deception of the highest level!!!
O'Connell Street by bus
Molly again!
Guinness!!
Arthur Guinness lived here!
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It's been a while since I've had a little blog post here, but then what's new about that eh? I had planned on posting a few photos over the past few months but I've just been so lazy. To be honest, I reckon I spend too much time on my computer between reading emails and social media, most of which seem increasingly to be just spam or scams. Are any of you having the same problem? Anyway I wanted to post this item on my blog for my own record, so here goes! It concerns a bit of bad weather in the town where I live. Coming from Ireland I'm fairly used to a drop of rain. I use the word 'drop' lightly here as it's an Irish thing. A drop of rain to an Irish person is usually equal to torrential rain elsewhere in the world. I say this just so you know where I'm coming from. It's not often you hear an Irish person go on about the RAIN!
new swimming pool
Anyway the rain arrived yesterday, and flooded out the garage under my house. I use this garage as an art studio space, which I call 'The Art Garage'. This is where I keep most of my paintings and drawings. Lucky for me however I managed to get most of my work out of danger before the water level got too high. Only a few items were damaged. Also, stupid old me didn't have any wellies (wellington boots). I only had a pair of crocs to wade through what was freezing water, made so by a pile of large hailstones just outside the door!
My garage wasn't the only casualty in Karis, a lot of other premises where flooded also including the local supermarkets. Here's a video somebody else shot in Karis centre. It's hardly a state of emergency I know, but nice to keep a record.
Next time it would be nice to have some kind of weather warning from the met office. Only a small thunder and a small amount of rain was the given forecast on this occasion. But nevermind, everything is back to normal here now though. Hot sunny Finnish summer, just the way it should be!
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