Broithe

A diversion due to roadworks was an excuse for my first visit since the water tower went. The space will be useful, I expect. The car parking was essentially full. I managed to find the single vacant space in the main section, but only because someone had parked outside a space earlier in the day There were four empty spaces on the road section, right up by the bridge on the main road.

The curves aren't quite right...

I twigged early on that we might be barking up the wrong tree.

This is alleged to be the only close-up photo of a Concorde flying supersonic. It was taken in 1985, from a Tornado, over the Irish Sea (it says, but probably a bit further south, I suspect). It was slowed up a bit, to around Mach 1.5/6 for the event. A Lightning was a fairly rough device. Not the most reliable aircraft ever built. As with many things, it was notable that they never really sold any. The Saudis had some, but you sort of have to pay them to 'buy' anything....

Lots of Lightnings - including one on a stick at the gate - and the front of one used for a flight simulator. Plus loads of other stuff, Vulcans, Canberras, Meteors, Argosies, Belfasts, etc - and loads of stuff passing through. The link I posted works, but the link on there to further pictures gets a 404 for me. About forty married quarters were rendered uninhabitable, plus loads of other damage- it looked like someone had run a Hoover over a life-sized model layout...

I often casually mention that we had a tornado at Akrotiri in 1969. People, of course, dispute this, not spotting that I have said it with a lower case t, rather than a capital T. https://www.limassolchamber.eu/En/26/articles/238/2016/10/07/Massive-disaster-in-Limassol-in-1969 There was a page with further pictures on there, but the link seems dead. The event was very violent, but with no fatalities on the base itself. There had been a tremendous hailstorm just before it came on land, so few people were outside when stuff started flying around and falling back down. Quite a few houses were demolished and we had a family billeted with us for a few weeks, whilst things were patched up.

People should pay heed to the good words. Their whole afterlife is at steak.

I understand that it was a good, down-to-earth sermon, with no bull.

Mmm, she might have to live south of the border, but it should be Portlaoise or Ballybrophy for her, I think.

Anyone who has paid proper attention to the shipping forecast would know that a wind can only veer in one direction, to the right. Turning to the left is backing. https://jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/the-difference-between-a-backing-and-veering-wind-489

Tralee Cummins. It could be changed every year...

If it was still open, Abbeyleix Day-Lewis. Roscrea Tsikhanouskaya.

Sorry for the late reply... We went to Emo yesterday and, chatting to the Information Officer, this photo was mentioned. She was unaware of it and I said I would source it for her. I found it in the book here, but it doesn't seem to exist publicly online anywhere. In Father Browne's Laois - on page 105.

Killarney Fassbender.