Cat runes translation: All Sleep Now.
Posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.
Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.
The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …
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Oh, you aughtn't!
Thanks for the ping’ Face.
Don’t get to close, I think this Cold must have escaped from Porton Down ‘Research’ centre.
Cat runes translation: All Sleep Now.
*yawn* ‘morning...
Snow?
You two related?
Yeah, about 6” on the ground, don’t see anything falling at the moment.
Drive carefully!
I’m going to the gym first thing this morning, and then to lunch at a friend’s house. After that, I hope to be in until whatever weather is past. I was just observing that, if we’re stuck inside for a day or two, we could clean the pantry.
37 degrees, SW@11 mph, 32%, clear.
*shudder* I am SO done with winter!
I was going to post the notice of move, and thought about you, and checked my ping list — you weren’t on it. *gasp*
What an oversight! So I added you, hoping you won’t mind. I can take you off it just as easily, so let me know if you want to stay on it. Sorry about that. I ping the list so seldom...
Poof Fluffy. I hope that cold doesn’t last to long, and doesn’t keep you down. I hate when those things come on. Especially now, that I seldom get them.
It’s nearly time for my shower, (waiting for the bathroom to warm up) and I’m sorry to be awake. Oh, well — the dreams weren’t worth watching, anyway.
I want to go to Wally’s and get some dryer sheets and dish detergent, but it’s COLD outside! I don’t think I’ll be sitting out with the Peeps today.
Morning! Can you and the peeps sit in the community room where it’s warmer?
Have just finished dragging my Butt around the Supermarket...those places aren’t super in any way shape or form.
Popped in to M&S on the way home , now I have Lemon and Green tea slightly carbonated to enjoy. (Does M&S exist o’er yonder?)
Plus of course a retreat for an hour or two to the Zone of Self indulgence. Zzzzz
Hope you have a nice afternoon!
I’m about to drag my people out the gym, kicking and screaming.
“I was struck with a dictionary, does that mean anything?”
No idea, but I hope you haven’t p’ed off an Encyclopaedia to the same extent. That could involve a Hospital visit.
Thanks TC, Have fun. :)
We could, if we wanted constant interruptions from rude people, the TV and the occasional dog or cat that wanders in when the electronic door is open.
We prefer to sit in an area that is somewhat enclosed, with a roof, but will accommodate only eight people, max. And for the most part, it’s quiet there, as even the road is far enough away to cut down on ear pollution.
And we talk about personal things, so I think the intimacy of the group would be ruined in a more public setting. Think of it as a micro-Undead Thread, but outside. Yep. Like that.
We had a dusting.
M&S??
There’s S&M over here.
But I don’t expect that’s the same thing.
So you get your workout on the way and they do their workouts upon arrival?
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