countryside to stir the soul

this might be the shortest come-back in history. ah! I'm off to ireland soon - i've always fancied going. Dublin, in fact, home of guiness and u2. And ken doherty - current world no.1 snooker player -if you don't believe me check out www.worldsnooker.com! I'm hoping to get out of the city for a bit to see some of the proper irish countryside of yore - the hills and stuff, oh yeh. Thats what i would really like to see. Im not taking my guitar, but i can just imagine it would be the ideal place to sit/lie down and strum until your heart's content. Singing with the birds, underneath the bright blue skies, feeling the green grass beneath you- being 'out there' with nature. Y'know, its funny, but the more i start to hear myself talk like this the more i'm beginning to think ive either got that 'romantic' streak running through me, like those great romantic poets - keats, mills and so on, - or i'm a hippy.

The Return of the King - well, not quite, but you got me anyway!

Hello the blogging world, i am back, yes i am , i am indeed. I have finally got broadband at home - the preceding generations of owens would havebeen proud - so yes i can communicate in real time instead of the days and minutes that you've all become so used to! Aha! Now then. Uh, first i suppose i'd better let *the administrator* have her moment of glory as i admit that yes, dial-up is naff and this broadband malarchy is far better. Bully to you!
I would just like to say to lindt chocolate, that their 'swiss double milk chocolate' chocolate is fabulous. I was quite taken aback when i tried some just now. It has to be the singular most nicest chocolate i have tasted in many a year. Its kind of like kinder egg, but for grown-ups - although there's no toy inside. And its flat, as is most chocolate or course, but seriously, it is good stuff, and drat! I've got some over the 'b' and 'h' keys.bbbbbbbbbbbbbhhhhhhhhhhhh, mmm, there, thats better.
You know, i've been reading this book of 'silly signs' recently, and there were quite a number of amusing examples given there. apparently they were all genuine signs hung in genuine places - heres one or two that caught my attention:

DIETING GROUP WILL MEET AT 7PM AT THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - please use large double door at the side entrance. (Notice on a church bulletin board)

TRY OUR LOCAL BUTTER, NOBODY CAN TOUCH IT. (On a grocery shop).

FOR BEST RESULTS START WITH CLEAN BATHTUB FOR USE. On a bottle of bathroom cleaner.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STOP CHAIN WITH YOUR HANDS. On a Swedish chainsaw.

Particularly good advice this last one, methinks.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. No, that wasn't more chocolate on my keys, thats me getting sleepy. Tebbly solli to leaf u, but i'm going to have to get some sleep. Nice to rejoin the blogging world though.