Very much a Cinderella hobby these days and one wonders will it survive at all with the proliferation of self-adhesive stamps and the huge decline in...
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Hi Celtic Rambler - your purchases are very nice examples.
I suggest Dublin Stamp Society as another way to study and collect stamps/ postal...
Right so, am heading to Germany at month end with the intention of buying a camper van so would welcome any practical advice from anyone who has done...
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Have a memorable road trip,and take plenty of pics. :lol:
I recently purchased a collection of Ernest Hemingway's books and am currently reading 'The Sun Also Rises'. Not sure what to make of it, to be...
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Picked this up recently and it's a very interesting read for anybody who has worked in the book trade or has any dealing with booksellers. Written in...
I'll kick off with this all - in - one (CPU keyboard monitor) from 2000. This was on sale in the Gateway superstor in Liffey Valley shopping centre...
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Words like 'Banzai','Englander Pig Dog', 'Schweinehund]', 'Himmel Achtung' (usually shouted when a grenade landed amongst a group of German soldiers)...
In this case, glossy dustwrappers; I have searched in vain online and there's nothing that I can find. What I'm talking about is your typical modern...
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That's how to do it then.
Anything else is a half measure and won't have them like new.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an influencer and and no time for those types who seem to take up > 50 % of the Q outside the new grafton street store.
I...
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I'll admit the lego technic stuff interests me. But its too expensive. I do have a Class Xerion 5000 tractor and Mercedes Acros truck. Sitting in a...
Hey folks, made a simple and free firepit this evening and thought i would share. I went to the local dump, borrowed an old washing machine, took out...
I was told when I was a baby and had the whooping cough that my mother gave me turnip juice on the advice of my grandmother, to ease my symptoms and...
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My understanding of scouring is like what you do with a scouring pad? Something Horse/Mares Tail (aka Scouring Rush) used to be used for.
I'm a big fan of certain genres of Irish fiction including anything by William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Rearden Conner, John McGahern,...
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Generally, I'd rather have my thumbnails pulled out than read your modern Irish novelists but I enjoyed the cards of the gambler by Benedict Kiely...
Rules are simple, whoever answers correctly first gets to ask the next question. If you're 100% sure you got it then go ahead and ask the next one,...
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Both very close but not correct, Croghan/Cruchan Co. Roscommon is a current village 10+ miles away. Unlike Del.Monte I need the exact answer for this...
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