I can’t believe it… I won!
The Glengarrif Lodge competition that sparked all sorts of interest and debate amongst Irish bloggers about what does and doesn’t constitute legitimate SEO linkbait is over.
And I won!
I got a phone call late this afternoon from Alan Callender, who owns the lodge, to say that mine was the winning entry.
So the family and I are heading for Glengarrif on the 11th of April. It looks fantastic… I can’t wait!
Technorati Tags: St Patrick’s Day,Clonakilty,Evening Echo Column,parenting
Published in the WOW! supplement of the Evening Echo 19/03/2008
On my left marched one of the twins dressed as a pig; on my right the other dressed as a bull, and in front of me, the little one dressed as what was supposed to be a chicken. The signs around their necks read “Danish Pork”, “Brazilian Beef” and “Thai Chicken” respectively. Behind me trotted another little girl – a “New Zealand lamb”. Somehow my wife and I had managed to avoid being transformed into denizens of the farmyard, but we were given banners to hold extolling the virtues of buying local produce.
Beside us a friend had a two-week-old Irish lamb tucked under his arm – an incredibly cute and lively counterpoint to the artificial foreign imports represented by our children. Glancing around I thought Old Macdonald, eat your heart out!
I hadn’t planned on even going to a St Patrick’s day parade, much less being part of one. In fact I’d spent most of Paddy’s weekend suffering the effects of food poisoning (probably the result of eating imported meat that had been thawed and re-frozen one too many times). Then a friend called us out of the blue and asked if we could help him out. Would the girls like to dress up as farm animals and march in the Clonakilty parade? We explained that they probably wouldn’t do it unless we were with them, to which he replied the more the merrier. And so here we were, marching through Clon with the Sustainable Clonakilty contingent.
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