From June 09

* 29th/30th June 2009 - "That party" - Big Pappa Pearce knows how to host a party I'll give him that. We drank all day and then forgot to sleep all night which was interesting because those instructions are forever drilled into my head now thanks to the constant singing of them . Will take some beating to have a better house party... Matthew Haughy can you step up?

* 8th - 13th July - Oxegen 09 - Blur.... That's all that really needs to be said to make this list amazing. Where to start though... It's actually tough. Day 1, the bus on the way up showed that lads are more craic than girls, end of. The danders began and the Scooby-Doo's rocked Oxegen . Shotguns where introduced to me, and I may never go back to normal beer. The mess pile began so it did and never stopped growing. Day 2 and the real bands began. We started with the Coronas and the summer anthem. They told us to sleep all day and drink all night but... Well we forgot about the sleep tbh. heroes and ghosts was awesome too so it was, that band is going places quickly. Snow Patrol where the next ones that we seen, they are true legends, lead singer is clearly an Irishman as he had the craic with thousands of people all at once.... Then we got Blur... And then we realised that we are having the best time we may ever have. Have to say I was not a HUGE fan before... but now... Well they are arguably my favorite band. Tender was the performance of the night so it was. I want to see them again as soon as possible. Day 3 was all about the rain so it was, but we still went and seen James Morrison who was just showing us how good a singer he is. Also Bloc Party really impressed me with the last 3 tunes. Helicopter was unreal as I expected. And Kings of Leon... Well they where fantstic, but not as good as Blur it must be said. Final day was the best in terms of sheer bant so it was. Fluff and Denny drank anything that could be downed... Literally anything. And they also paid the price. The sing song in the tent kept on getting better. Viva la Vida and I'm Yours will be ringing in my head for a long long time, as will our classic title called Song 3 lol. The bands we seen where, Lady Gaga's ass and The Killers who really REALLY done alot better than we where all thinking. Brilliant way to close down the show, and every song they done where amazing. I will never say a bad word about them again after that. (Credit to Geraldine for the follwing which I actually forgot like a tool ) [Then that night was the night we saw so many things. The beat boxers that are sure to become worldwide hits soon, the guy who Ryan drew a dick on... Made a triumphant return with 2 black eyes and a bust lip after being beaten down by what he told us was a 6 year old girl. Then we got the guys themselves... Jumping in puddles, eating carrots and indeed drinking muddy water... Something that none of us expected I can safely say. They soon left after pissing off captain cool as fuck and getting a chair thrown at them .] We also saw Hugh Murphy at his best... The anti-christ snore, the Irish rants, the Religious debate... All amazingly... Amazing. I've missed so much so I'm just going to say thank you to Oxegen... Thank you to Blur, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Coronas, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party and all the other acts. Thank you to Rory, to Ham to Ginger Ryan aka Darth Fader, thank you to Mick to Tom to Stevie D to Chris to Doyle to James and Hugh. Thank you to Downey and Blaine and to all the girls too. Thank you to the random people that came round to B31 for a song, thank you to the other 80,000 people I have not named, without you there would be no Oxegen... Without everyone I would not have had the best time of my life

*29th/30th July 2009 - "My trip 'downtown' - Went into Newry planning to just go downtown.....That didn't exactly happen so it didn't. With £8 in my pocket, I decided that it was best to goon a night out....And then, well i used my money to buy a Friar Tuc

Here are some facts about the1500's:

These are interesting...

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.


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Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..


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Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.


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There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.


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The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.


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(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..


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Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could 'bring home the bacon'. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..


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Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.


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Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the 'upper crust'.


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Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would
Take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.


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England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and re-use the grave. When re-opening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had bee

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