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Nostalgia isn’t what it was in my day.
Well now – here we are almost exactly a month on from my last post. It seems like more than a month actually – we weren’t yet quite gone into lock-down here in Singapore at the time, although it was on the cards – but since then we have had said lock-down imposed, and subsequently…
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Apocalypse. How?
Stay calm and do what you need to to look after yourself and those around you – that’s how. Since I wrote my last piece about T & H’s pub, the Covid-19 thing has pretty much exploded like the time bomb that experts were warning it was. Their warnings seem to have fallen on deaf…
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Tee & Haitches – A Legendary Pub
That may well strike you as a rather odd title, unless you are (a) familiar with Waterford or (b) you read yesterday’s blog entry. I refer of course to the famous pub on George’s Street in Waterford City, which I’m going to talk a bit about today. As you may well know, Waterford is Ireland’s…
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes? Part 2
So, as I said in Part 1, I was unceremoniously booted out of Australia in February 1993, and returned to a cold and grey Waterford. To say I was not happy to be back would be an understatement. It amazes me to think back on it now, because these days I would be quite content…
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes? Part 1
I had some PC related issues yesterday and was unable to write (or at least type) anything. I have it sorted now, touch wood. 28 years ago yesterday, on March 5th 1992, I touched down at Adelaide International Airport and set foot on Australian soil for the first time. It was not without mixed feelings.…
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The Old Man
In Memory of Philip J. Cox, March 3rd 1931 – Feb 11th 2001 Today would have been my Dad’s 89th birthday (Mythen is the name I write and perform under – it’s my Mum’s maiden name). He died from leukaemia just three weeks shy of his 70th. While I’d have liked to see him hit…
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Childhood Memories
I was going to wait till tomorrow to post about this topic, but last night I was playing my regular Sunday evening gig at McGettigan’s here in Singapore, and an Australian gent requested a song called The Old Man by Irish folk legends The Furey Brothers. Finbar Furey wrote the song many years ago shortly…
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The Accumulation Of Stuff
We bought our house ten years ago this year, and don’t ask me where that time has gone because I have no clue. We still have some stuff in boxes from when we moved in! When we first bought it, I put dibs on one of the top floor bedrooms (it’s a three storey terrace)…
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Let’s Try This Again
Back in late 2017 I decided it would be a good idea to start a blog, and so I did – you’re reading it 🙂 Then I put about four posts up on it and promptly shelved it. I figure it is now time to resurrect it, because if one aspires to being a writer,…
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A digital re-issue of an old album.
On a very hot Saturday in October 2004, just before I moved to Singapore, I sat down in a house in Seaford, half an hour or so south east of Melbourne, together with a few friends and a woeful hangover, to make my first album. The result was a collection of mostly traditional Irish folk…
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