Grannymar

Back in February I made a Podcast about the day Nancy came to Town. That day we enjoyed lunch at the Crown Bar in Belfast. This popular bar is the only National Trust-owned pub in Northern Ireland and has been described as the best preserved Victorian pub in the UK.

My podcast inspired Grandad to write about his memories of Belfast.

I see in the Belfast Telegraph Newspaper this evening that the work on restoration of the building is almost complete. The ceiling hidden for years by a thick nicotine layer has been scraped and the restorers are discovering the beautiful colours beneath.

Project manager Claire McGill said booths, ceiling and tiles have all been given a new lease of life. More than 100 mirrored glass pieces from the snugs have been restored and will be reinstalled this month.

Nancy, come October it might be time for another visit to Belfast.

Now I wonder if these restorers working at the Crown Bar, had a little go at Grandad’s lungs what wonderful colours would they uncover?

Nancy where are you? We have not heard from you for such a long time. I am really getting worried because ‘my new best friend’ Granny has not appeared for several days. That ‘ould codger’ Grandad said she had the flu but we all know he is a very jealous man….. He is fighting with Twenty and worse still using ‘Twenty’s’ dreadful language.

Since Granny & Offspring have started to blog he has really tipped over the edge. He claims that Bertie Aheron is digging holes in the lane near his house. In this frame of mind anything is possible.

Is there any chance Nancy of you contacting your friend ‘GW’ and arranging a team of spies to come over and suss things out?

Dario while you have a long weekend to yourself run up the mountain and have a little snoop about. If you ask nicely John of Dublin might bring his camera

Check out the pigsty and the hen house and then make sure Granny is not trussed up and bundled into the hayloft.

I suppose there is a chance she has locked herself away for some peace to get on with her creative writing. She should have come to stay with me as the only men allowed here are toy-boys and I would keep them well away from her!

Now listen Boys, you better watch out as tiddles is on the loose!

When Nancy was going to Florida, she had a bundle of Euro she needed to exchange, so she went to the currency exchange window at the local bank. The line was short. Just one guy in front of her… an Asian guy who was trying to exchange yen for dollars, and he was more than a little irritated!

He asked the teller, “Why it change??

Yestoday, I get 2 huna dolla fo yen.

Today, I get huna 80?? Why it change?”

The teller shrugged her shoulders and said, “Fluctuations.”

The Asian guy says, “Fluc you white people, too!”

I wonder if Nancy managed to change her money?

Following a recent Podcast about Nancy’s visit to Belfast Grandad was moved to follow up with one of his own. In it he revealed his interest in politics and elections.

We will have elections up here in March and if he came back well maybe he would get to meet ‘The Rev P’ and then we might have a blind date in the Crown!

Don’t you think we would make a handsome couple!

I was not happy with the photos in my last post so I have changed some and moved them here.

Nancy try not to cry all over them as they might smudge!

Only the windows at the front of the building had to be replaced due to bomb damage.

This one is an origional. Nice looking Guy… No don’t ask….