Okay so I promised some follow up to last night's post on the meeting in Drogheda with Cormac Cardinal Murphy O'Connor. 

The event was not highly publicised.  I read about in the Irish Times the day it was to take place.  There was little publicity in Drogheda.  I decided to go at the last minute as it wasn't the best night.  My Companions of Carmel group were meeting at nine o'clock.  I was walking up West Street about ten minutes before kick off.  The RTE satellite van was parked near the D...

Monica: Did you just smell my hair?

Pete: Nooo. Uh-huh, no way. What? No.

Monica: Oh God.

Pete: What?

Monica: You still have feelings for me don’t you?

That's from Season 3, Episode 21 of Friends, the one with a chick and a duck.

Last week I was visiting an old (as in long-lasting) friend and, well, she caught me -

"Did you just smell my milk?"

Think it would have been better if I'd been caught smelling her hair.

It really is true that every cloud has a silver lining.

While thousands were suffering the loss of water supplies, it did at least provide some amusement for the rest of us and helped me in my new year's resolution to laugh.

Not at the suffering you understand, but how people coped with it.  We coped with the Troubles by laughing and we really should be trying harder with the economic woes, bad weather, water shortages etc.

So the news that some East Belfast residents were using lemonade to flus...