‘Do not touch God’s word’ reads the bottom of this very odd sign nailed to a telegraph pole halfway between Saintfield and Ballynahinch. Squinter was on a 14-mile rambling loop between the two towns on Sunday and very pleasant it was too until around 4pm when the skies opened. Before long man and dog […]
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Men’s lib in Liverpool
This sign outside a bar in Liverpool didn’t impress Squinter’s mate. “Typical everday sexism,” he moaned. “The pintglass ceiling still exists.” Yes, very funny. Squinter thought it was a laugh, quite frankly, if for no other reason than, like all the best jokes, there’s more than a grain of truth in there. Does Squinter […]
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Tiocfaidh ár lamb
This here thing here is a dish called Klephtiko, which Squinter had last week in a Greek restaurant in Liverpool. Squinter’s had a few lamb shanks in his time (right, okay, have you all stopped sniggering now?) but this one took the biscuit, to employ what’s in the circumstances probably an ill-advised culinary metaphor. […]
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Fáilte romhat, Belfast Buckie
Squinter never really understood why Buckfast never took off in Belfast. Oh, you’ll see the odd bottle lying in the gutter after an Orange parade, but it’ll have been left there by visitors from up the country. And you’ll see it being happily necked in the Holyland on Paddy’s Day but, again, them’s the […]
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Yip, bin there; yip, done that
SQUINTER was dandering around the lovely lanes of County Armagh at the weekend, checking the orchards to see how close the apples are to the Magners factory, idly noting that there’s a touch of autumn coolness in the afternoon breeze. The dog stopped for a second and looked back at his master, tongue hanging […]
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The business of business never an exact science in the Pravince
THE news that 300 new jobs are to be created in Belfast by London-based brokerage firm Tullett Prebon was released amidst much fanfare by the First and deputy First Ministers at a photocall at Invest NI headquarters on Tuesday. The local hacks who pound the business beat were suitably impressed and a slew of print […]
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