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A special Easter this year for all Irish people.

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It's a cold and cloudy day in Dublin. But with Spring equinox just behind us the sunny days are only a stone throw away. Or we should hope so!

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Happy Friday to you all. Friday is curry day in my home, so here is a fact about Curry, for those of you who didn't know: Chapter 29, London. "What's a Ruby?" asked Anton not knowing what to expect. "A ruby? Don't you know?"laughed Pete. "It's a Curry. You know, cockney rhyme slang "Ruby Murray- Murray rhymes with Curry" https://www.pinterest.com/pin/299630181436189480/.

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"Roseanne smiled and proceeded to drop a cube of sugar, after removing it from its wrapper, into her coffee which Lars had ordered while she was talking". You don't see sugar cubes very often these days and even more so those that come in wrappers. How do you take your tea? https://www.flickr.com/photos/shgarden/6675202141/in/faves-creature_comforts/

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" No longer were the young men wearing berets. Of course, the older men still used the famous black headgear, with its little top tail sticking up - the user invariably pulling the black headwear in different directions, depending on how he felt, or the region from where he hailed". Chapter 4, Paris

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"Everything in dis shop is nice", Anton smiled. "Dats de real thing. dat knocker, came from France. It's very old. It's supposed to be a cast of de hand of Marie Antoinette, a total bitch from what I hear!". Chapter 10, Dublin

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"Anton fancied himself. He saw himself as a good talker. He was also good humoured with a larger-than-life smile of theet, which could have looked very well, had he not swilled umpteen cups of tea and smoked at least two packs of cigarettes per day, and then some!. Chapter 6, Dublin.

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And in Paris we make the acquaintance of a funny little creature, Mme Rousseau: " Sitting in her tiny office, the little lady regarded unsuspecting travellers rather as a squirrel might when looking out of its nest from within an old tree. Her bespectacled peaky features inspired one to fear that, at any moment, she could produce a nut and start nibbling." Chapter 20, Paris.

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"Yeh see most people here don't live in apartments. We like to live in houses, and even if we don't own our own houses, we can at least paint the front door - dat way yeh can always find yeh way home at night, when you've drunk too much Guinness, by the colour of your own front door. Or, as you see there in yeh hand, we would change the knocker, ye know what I mean...make it personal...like...."

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Bewleys Cafe Theatre

It's in this historic Dublin Cafe that the randez-vous between two of the characters takes place and their story unfolds here amidst the smell of coffee and the clattering of tea pots.

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