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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Very good music! It upset the cats and the children. Ha!
Wow. I need a flagon of something very alcoholic to listen to that! And I wish I understood what was being sung.
I hope to resurrect mine from the dead not because it has anything on it I don’t already have in the cloud but just because it’s a cool little thing, still, in my opinion. Better than the iPods of today which are the size of iPhones (so why not just get a phone). It’s a neat little thing in shinny silver metal. A true “iPod” IMO, just for music that fits neatly in the smallest of pockets.
I just ordered a replacement cord. We shall see if the battery can be recovered!
Good luck! I now have Sirius and Pandora on my phone, so that I can listen during colonoscopies or while having my teeth cleaned. I have a CD player in the kitchen and one in the van for all other occasions.
The reminds me, I need to get “High Middle Ages, Part I” out of the van and put in Part II. We’re in the middle of tales of the Inquisition.
We have Sunbean! I don’t know how long it will last, but the temp is up too, a balmy 54 and partly cloudy, though the wind is still up, at 8 mph out of the south.
My stomach is giving me fits this morning, so I’m going to go take a hit of cayenne and see if that will stop the pain. I don’t need this. I didn’t sleep well last night, so in addition to having a stomach ache, I have an on-again-off-again headache.
And I’m thinking I’ll see about having someone come in once a week for an hour, to dust, mop and vacuum. I just can’t get to it in a timely manner and I detest dirty floors. I could have them come for two hours every two weeks, but that’s not going to work. There isn’t two hours worth of work, except for me!
Maybe if I had an iPod, I would be able to listen to music while I drive, since it looks like I’ll have to wait until I get to St George, and have one of my many nephews check out the wiring system for the stereo/CD player.
I’ll check eBay...maybe I can find one I can afford.
Second generation, used, $25.00. Hmmm... I’ll wait. I don’t mind it being used, but I will wait on the price. Compared to newer ones, that’s a little high for one that has been used, even if it’s functional.
If mine ever turns up again, I’ll send it to you. I often hide beeber-like devices and then never find them again.
LOL! I’ll wait, then. Thanks!
You may wait forever, but sometimes, when I think of something, it turns up.
Or weird.
Or both.
Er - um - that’s a new use for an iPod for sure.
I clearly had too much of the enhanced hot chocolate.
OK, moving on.
If you’re feeling dizzy, there are cookies behind the dictionary. They haven’t been there long.
Sometimes when I have a nightmare about something it turns up. <shudder>
They didn’t move themselves there, did they?
Anyone know anything about these cookies that just mugged me?
Pat made them. He told me they were okay.
Did they eat the dictionary, too.
“Darby O’Gill and the Little People,” starring young Sean Connery as the love interest. Cute as a button, but his accent was not Irish.
I was struck with a dictionary, does that mean anything?
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