AN open-air laundrette, eh? So much for not washing your dirty linen in public. Squinter’s told the facility in the car park of the Shaws Road shops is already proving very popular, with a colleague reporting a queue when he drove past a couple of days after the machines were installed. Squinter used to […]
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D’ough! thon timer’s broke
CONTINUING on the theme of bread and this here’s the Twitter account of Irwin’s Bakery, makers of the Nutty Krust. It’s the king of the plain loaf and Squinter has consumed it in Homeric quantities down through the years. He’s often eaten it as toast (the heel was routinely fought over in West Belfast household […]
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Ice cream’s the hot topic
MEANWHILE, in the searing heat of Tuesday, Squinter decided an ice cream was in order as the mercury crept towards 30 degrees. And so in a Spar in Lisburn (again, don’t ask) he extricated this little fella from the chill box. Now it’s a very, very long time since Squinter had a Cornetto. Veda and […]
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The truth, the hole truth and nothing but the, ah, truth
HAVE a look at this thing here on the right. Squinter bought it in Tesco Newtownbreda last week on his way home from Downpatrick (as ever, don’t ask). A long day it had been and Squinter got it into his head that when he got home he’d like nothing better than a bit of mature […]
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Sign of the rural times
A LOVELY and lengthy Sunday afternoon stroll through rural County Armagh on Sunday. 16 miles according to the health app on Squinter’s mobile phone, which is good going but by no means a record. Here’s a telegraph pole on the Loughgall Road between Armagh and, ah, Loughgall. And there’s a barbed-wire-protected sign written in […]
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Oh, for just the tiniest bit of piece and quiet
HERE’S Squinter’s lunch, above, in a picture taken on his mobile phone on Monday. At lunchtime, funnily enough. What the hell is Squinter doing taking pictures of his piece?, Squinter hears you cry. And you’d be right to be curious and scathing in equal measure. But houl’ yer hand on the shafts, as Squinter’s […]
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