FF3: Paul Walsh joins boyband, bloggers get together

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NKOTB are here - New Kids On The Blogs. With the support of new member (and most generous host) Paul Walsh, this boyband is set to dominate the music markets of southern Carlow, Laois, Leitrim and the Aran Islands with their unique covers of:

• Relight my Fire(fox)
• Come on Baby, light my Fire(fox)
• Goodness Gracious, great balls of Fire(fox)
• We didn't start the Fire(fox)
• and of course Johnny Cash's Burning Ring of Fire(fox)
  

Last night's launch party for Firefox 3 was fun. I got to meet so many people and put faces to names, as well as catch up with many more.

One of the personal highlights was gathering bloggers together (thank you Elly!) for this photo. Can't imagine there's been this many together since the Blog Awards.


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I'll get in trouble now trying to name everyone and missing people, but the ones I know - and Elly has helped me find - are:

Peter Donegan, Niall Donegan, Dennis Deery, Paul Campbell, Alan O' Rourke, Justin Mason, Keith Gaughan, Eamon Leonard, Iarfhlaith Kelly, Maryrose Lyons, Laura Czajkowski, Elly Parker, Darragh Ó Héiligh, Gordon Murray, Niamh Smith, David Maybury, Anthony McGuinness, Darren Byrne, Liz Lyons and of course Paul Walsh and Adrian (Aido) McMahon.

(Missing are Joe Drumgoole (who stepped away) - apparently Putplace is in beta next week - and George Pratt who was nowhere to be found...)



Got them all to autograph the back of the photo too!



I also finally got to meet the lovely Marie, to chat with Roseanne, to meet (I think?) Damian Bannon, to meet Keith and Niall from Blacknight, to see George's new N95 (he's very proud GM!), to have a pint with John Peavoy and Gordon (after much twittering of location) and to kidnap Debbiemet, who is just one of the nicest people ever. Need your garden done? Contact her.



Elly was lucky enough to bag herself a launch t-shirt.



Once Ben finally showed up and bar was closing, we predictably headed on to Eddie's where himself and Liz wanted to get in on the Hello Sheila thing...





Other photos of this nature taken by the lovely people at Quest.ie are live on EventPhotoIreland. I love this one of Paul and Aido. Bohoe also has some great shots on pix.ie


All photos compliments of www.quest.ie

If you know of anyone in the photo that I missed, if you were there and enjoyed it or if you just want to say how silly I looked in the above photo, please leave a comment :)

Well I suppose I did ask for it

I love postcards. I pick up a lot of the free ones in town (and I'm delighted to see that the people behind a lot of them, The Picture Works, have a blog - go visit) and I share them, I send them or just store them. The ones from "new" places go on the fridge.

When the ever lovely Ellybabes told me she was off to Arizona recently I cheekily asked for a postcard - after all, I don't have any from there. So when I got home to find this envelope waiting for me, I had an idea of what was in it...



true to her word, there were postcards from her travels



including Arizona



Arizona by night



a lovely shot of the Houses of Parliament in London



and then, just at the end, there were



and



Guess which ones won't be going on the fridge?

How to react? What to say? Well, like any good blogger, all I can do is post and say thanks :D

and then be careful what I choose for her 30th Birthday on May 6...

Elly, you rock!

Via the ever wonderful Ellybabes, this has now become my chosen video on Bebo. Utter genius.

Through her have just found K8 the GR8, progeny of a certain couple of bloggers. Added to my RSS feed now too!

Finally on this Elly theme, loving the photo she took at her local Spar.


I owe the woman a hug and a pint, hopefully to be paid on Saturday night. Cheers for making my Friday even brighter!

... They're all running after the old farmer's wife, she cut off their tales, and baby! And what it all comes down to is that I never seen such a sight in my life, cos she's got one hand on 3 rodents and another one on a carving knife...

As requested, photos from the Blog Awards

What's WWMD?

As requested in the comments of my Blog Awards Post, here's even more photos from the Blog Awards... and my last mention of the Blog Awards for now. I hope I get everyone's name right!

Update: Edgecast.ie now have the podcast live. It's very funny. Have a listen.

Some of these may not be mine - I did "borrow" from a lot of sources, so thanks to anyone who uploaded a photo of me!


In retrospect, it probably wasn't that wise to rob Granddad's badge...


But he let me live. Begrudgingly. I doubt Twenty would have if I'd taken his

As I mention, I loved UnaRock's bag


and also loved meeting my blogging heroes like Ellybabes (first blog I ever read)


The lovely Grannymar


Award winning Maman Poulet

Manuel from WellDoneFillet and Kieran from Ice Cream Ireland

and Ross who is an amazing photographer

(I know for a fact I stole this one from Marcus' Pix.ie set)

One of the coolest people I met though (apart from Sabrina) was Julie-Anne from CuriousTales.com. You may have seen her name come up a lot on blogs during the week, to do with her brilliantly conceived t-shirts.


Mulley seems to like his


And Rick O' Shea showed his invisible one


And the other type:


She's also the lady behind the very popular moustaches that were sported about the place - there's Ken and Ross:


and a great one of Ross and Maryrose from Brightspark


Darren didn't really get the point though


As I said, I met some lovely people that I hope I get to stay in touch with


And as Darren and I have both said, we had fun!


Marcus and Redmum have some great shots as does official photographer McAWilliams. They're very great.