MartinB's Journal

I think it is Ivor.

Eh what's the prize?

Would the answer be Kindredspirit, by any chance?

Ladybird, Ivor is Scottish. I don't think Martin is!  :)

I know from his journals he has a sister living in Scotland with a beautiful garden.

Is the name 'Ivor' not Scottish? Or is it Welsh?

I have a grandson with a scottish name but he is irish!

Ha ha ok point taken, Ruth. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

As long as the prize is good!!

Like one of Martin's big tree ferns in his polytunnel. Hee hee!

1) You would never catch me up a mountain.  Although I did climb to the top of the Sugar Loaf once back in the early seventies.  Got badly sunburnt too.

2) My surname McClintock is Irish I say, we just lent it to the Scots for 500 years.

3) Ivor is indeed Welsh.  (Half prize to Jacinta)

4) Both myself and the Sis are genuine Dubs.  (from D4 just to brag) I blew down to Carlow, northeasterly wind and Val took the prevailing Southwesterly.

5) Is the answer "Headgardner"

Kindrespirit, and he put up some of the wooden arches, with the chalk writing that irked Martin so much. Well done Jacinta.

Nobody said I won, Fran.

It did not irk me at all Fran, I was only fooling with him.

Ah well, maybe next time............

Martin didn't say that the two brothers were his brothers!

Nuala if I was being cryptic then I would say there were 5 sons there and not 2. Sorry about your phormiums. I had two lines of defence from the wind from the west, the second was my boundary hedge and the first was the neighbours until the farmer on the other side cut it to the ground a couple of years ago. He died last year. It is so important to keep out the wind. The winner of the competition will be announced tomorrow evening as I have not got time tonight. Could my brother be fran  or pcon or gerry with numbers?

Is that you with the snazzy odd socks Martin?

[Quote] MartinB. the first was the neighbours until the farmer on the other side cut it to the ground a couple of years ago. He died last year [/quote]

Moral: Don't mess with MartinB!

Hee hee

Yes Wellington and thank you. I have two pairs like that and it often takes me a while to decide which pair to wear. Yes the answer is Kindred, a name that he picked as being the name of his boat.

'I look at each pair,

now which shall I wear,

less my feet are left bare,

but do you lot care?'

Oh Jacinta what do you want as a prize?

Can,t wait to see what Jacinta won, should I be concerned or flattered that Ivor thought  Martin and I were related!! maybe it's the mutual love of sarcastic wit :-)

You lot make me laugh out loud.

Hi Bill and Una, it might be more baby tree ferns. I am putting up anothe quiz

Martin, you gave me no time to answer. I would have answered Kindredspirit as he is from Co Limerick and gave us that interesting picture of you on your wedding day. 

Jeez, Bill, you never told me you were Matin's brother.

I thought of the possible connection with Kindred when he put up some photos of his 'ice sculpture' in Nov/Dec and remembered your brilliant one last year, Martin. I will let you decide on my prize. :)  I will love it, no matter what it is. Thanks a million.

Nobody told me either Rachel!! :-)

No offence I hope Bill.  The guy on the left in the pic has a very similar hairstyle ( term "style" used very loosely) and is tall like yourself.  You came first into my mind.  Then maybe I just need new specs. No offence either to Martin I hope, but then you are related to all the guys in the pic.  No, now I'm getting mixed up.  Super comment chat, it must nearly be a record with all the hits. Do I count 29 to date.  Go on do another one....

Just to boost the numbers, I will tell you the record is over the hundred, so a long way yet.

thanks for taking part Ivor. they are tall, I used to measure 6 feet and they seem to drown me in the picture.

No offence at all Ivor :-) and I think I'd have to be drinking tomato feed to reach over 5ft 11 let alone 6ft !!  Who has the record Fran I suspect it may be you ?

No, Bill, the record is held by Chewbacca, the Wookie. Check out my second last journal.

Bill, I think Rachel holds the record, it was a journal on a get together I think, it just when on and on, a second journal was then opened up as it took ages to scroll down through it.

Hi again from this journal which I found thanks to Fran. You are a good teacher  Fran. I am learning excel at the moment, lucky that my teacher is one on a cd. What I wanted to say was about my socks in the picture. I was sorting odd socks that Pennys gave me, and finding the matches and sending them out to the poor of the world, well when I needed to climb Slieve Donard I found that I had no walking socks so I took two that I could not match, which is something that I would not have insulted the poor of the world with.