Homeless Wherers - all are welcome, old and new!

They're still a thing on the Cork-Dublin intercity service as well as on the Enterprise between Dublin and Belfast, so Irish Rail's two flagship services. As to whether it's luxurious, well, the new first class coaches are. They have new leather seats, plenty of easily accessible charge points for laptops, integrated wireless chargers in the tables and a generally fresher, higher quality look. There's also free coffee or tea for first class passengers. Plus, there's the advantage of having a 2+1 layout, meaning two seats next to each other on one side of the aisle and only a single seat on the other side. That's the main reason I went for the extra cost. The non-refurbished 1st class experience is less premium and feels dated, although the seat layout and the service is the same.

Back to reality today, at my desk, trying to get a handle on the 300+ emails that accumulated in my absence…

Just out of bed . I tend to sleep on my side which I need to stop as it’s killing my back . Anyway I’ve decided not to go to appointments I had made because of it so another day on the sofa

Homeside, winding down for the evening. Why can’t the bloody rent just pay itself?

Anyway, I still owe @Gremlinertia , @Mam of 4 and the rest of the WW2 crowd in here a few links, so here goes nothing…

https://youtube.com/%40worldwartwo?si=JxbIK-IoGp1QOfD8 - This channel covers World War 2 in real time, week by week. They’re currently going through the plans for Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands but have videos all the way back to the start of the war. They also have a number of sub series about the atrocities committed, espionage during the war, etc. Should keep you busy for a while. I highly recommend their Pearl Harbour in real time series on that channel.

https://youtube.com/%40d-day24hours-sm5pe?si=09cqGCIe8PwK2QxR - Produced by the same crew as the World War 2 channel above, this covers the 24 hours of June 6th, 1944, so basically all of operation Overlord. Just watched it over the weekend, since it was the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

You know you live deep in rural Ireland when at 11pm, the silage wagons are still trundling up and down the road 🚜

Happy morning walker just before he rolled in poop. So shower time before OH gets to smell him.

Don't you become accustomed to the smell after a while? Possibly a few years 😁

Ah that's what I meant! Farm across the road from us , literally, the smells don't bother me anymore tbh . Grew up with it , or maybe my sense of smell is out of whack 🙈🤣

Lol 🤣 I hear you 🤣

Wwondering am I the only weirdo that comes back fro m 34 degree hear with an actual head cold!😷

Sitting here eating birthday cake 🎂 Cake is good 👍

Never happened to me here in Ireland, but my most lasting souvenir from my first trip to New York back in 2011 was a head cold from hell that knocked me flat out for two weeks straight! I visited in NYC in summer, with the corresponding temperatures over there and by the time I changed planes in Heathrow, I knew that I was coming down with something…

Tomorrow is looking like a much better day.

It's being trapped on a plane with all them forrin germs that does that - thanks for coming to my TED talk, there will not be any questions.

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