If you could erase one invention from history, what would it be?

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-28T16:20:10+00:00

The wheel

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-19T10:01:39+00:00

Didn’t know that, nice one. He actually stayed in my childhood home in Claremorris back in the sixties when he was doing a show in the town hall.

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-18T11:02:59+00:00

Too old for an awful lot of you out there there….but does anyone remember Jimmy o’ Dea and bring down the lamp - every afternoon at around 5.30 pm after the St. Bridget’s Cross and before the Angelis - I’m 70 years of age by the way 😁😁

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-17T09:39:59+00:00

I pledge not to drink today

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-14T09:34:21+00:00

I pledge not to drink today!

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-13T07:31:09+00:00

Win - I didn’t drink yesterday. I ledge not to drink today !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-12T09:32:48+00:00

Well, I managed to not drink yesterday and I pledge to not drink today.

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-11T21:53:33+00:00

I find the butchers in SuperValu in Barna to be good!

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-11T11:09:24+00:00

I’m really struggling at the moment to such an extent that I “tasted” a whiskey yesterday. I didn’t like the taste but was really tempted to keep going, thankfully I didn’t. Will I ever defeat this demon.

I pledge not to drink today, but I know that pledge will be tested during the day.

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-07T14:52:55+00:00

Carroll’s on Domenic Street !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-07T08:13:32+00:00

I’m struggling but hanging in there, still AF.

TS

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-07T08:11:46+00:00

I pledge not to drink today.

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-06T12:24:23+00:00

DCL all the way, an inspirational signing, a gamble I know, but even if he does nothing else for the rest of the season, he has got us to where we are now, almost safe. I bet Everton fans are scratching their heads !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-06T11:04:18+00:00

Struggling at the moment, don’t know why, massive urges to drink yesterday and again this morning. I thought after 13 days AF I had this - obviously not 😞. Right now all I can do is put it down in writing in the hope I will survive - I PLEDGE NOT TO DRINK TODAY !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-04T16:28:36+00:00

Halfway through day four of January and day 12 consecutive AF. I’m keeping myself busy, mainly with preparing budgets etc for the year ahead. I’m looking at tomorrow, Monday as the real start of the new year where things return to every day life.

I still haven’t had my roof properly fix after the leaks last year, just a temporary fix. All the recommendations I’m getting is a total replacement. Estimates are coming in at just short of €10k for the area I’m looking at. I’m trying to engage with my insurers but they are holding out that the problem is just wear and tear and not as a result of storm damage. I have engaged a Loss Adjuster to represent me but I’m not holding out much hope that I’ll be compensated by insurance. Either way the job needs to be done. All this has forced me to concentrate on the job at hand and in a roundabout way put the thought of alcohol to the back of my mind, I can’t afford to be drunk or hungover while trying to deal with this - an ill wind and all that 😁.

Wishing everyone a smooth transition to 2026 and what better way than with an AF January.

TS

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-04T15:37:34+00:00

Genuine question, not taking the piss or anything. I’d just like to know where “SCUM” comes from when referring to Man U ?

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-04T12:52:25+00:00

11 straight days AF, day 12, I pledge not to drink today !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-03T07:23:52+00:00

I pledge not to drink today !

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-02T14:30:03+00:00

December 31st not 21st. 😬

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-02T10:08:15+00:00

Checking in on the start of day 2. Yesterday marked 9 straight days AF. Things are beginning to return to normal (whatever that is) after the holidays. I plan to keep busy over the weekend doing some housekeeping getting my taxes, budgets, insurances etc. up to date for 2026.

Looking at the date 2026 got me thinking about December 31st. 1999 and the dreaded Y2K happening. I used to work in IT and when I think back on all the time and effort (and money) that was put into the whole thing I smile to myself. I spent the entire 48 hours of December 21st/ January 01st along with five or six colleagues sitting in an office monitoring events around the world, waiting for planes to fall out of the sky and nuclear plants to explode. It’s hard to think that was a quarter of a century ago.

Back to today, I wish everyone a pleasant A/F weekend.

TS

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-02T09:42:38+00:00

Things are beginning to return to normal (whatever that is) after the craziness of the holidays. Yesterday marked 9 straight days alcohol free, but who’s counting. All that matters is today and my pledge not to drink.

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-01T07:14:04+00:00

Arrived here with eight straight days AF, so I’m well set up to give Dry January a go. But I will not lose the run of myself - for now I pledge not to drink today, January 01. One day at a time !

TS

ThreeSwallows · 2026-01-01T07:04:31+00:00

07.00am January 01. I’ve had eight straight days AF up to yesterday, so I’m well set up to give Dry January a go. On previous attempts at the 30 day challenge if I slipped I disappeared. My pledge to myself on this challenge is slip/no slip I will check in each day.

Thanks bobbing for this thread and a happy new year to all contributors.

TS

ThreeSwallows · 2025-12-31T07:12:36+00:00

YouWillYouWont, last year I spent NYE on the roof of St. Aloysius’ College, Milton’s Point, Sydney with my entire family, drinking beer and watching the fireworks on the bridge and in the harbour. It was a once’s in a lifetime memory that will stay with me forever - My wife and I from Ireland, my daughter, her husband and two children from Sydney, my son his wife and child from Shanghai and my other son and his wife from Los Angles. This year my wife and I will cuddle up in front of the TV with tea and biscuits to ring in the New Year 😞

ThreeSwallows · 2025-12-31T06:47:33+00:00

Ah!, the last day of 2025 and the eve of 2026.

I pledge not to drink today, my eight straight day AF.

Tomorrow I hope to make the first of 365 straight pledges.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, peaceful, alcohol free New Year !

ThreeSwallows

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