It’s getting close - any of you good people going ?
i am 
It’s totally unfair, you guys are so close it’s like a week “in the countryside”. I don’t feel brave enough to experience the Willie week “jungle” at the moment but I’ll work on my courage and I’ll eventually make it back one day I’m sure
now come on, Az, seems that you got plenty of nice workshops on the other side of the pond 
It’s hanging over us like a shadow.
My son is working for the WCSS at the moment, cleaning and preparing the Convent in Spanish Point for the classes. I joked to someone earlier this week they were probably preparing the cream crackers and cheddar for the opening/launch reception as we were speaking. I immediately got the reply ‘they left the preparation of the nibbles a bit late this year didn’t they?’.
True to form the weather has deteriorated considerably already.
hey peter, have the “puke mobiles” parked on the main st yet??
they usually arrive up a few days beforehand.. mmm burgers!
No, nothing yet, they usually arrive around the wednesday. Maybe the wind and rain scared them off.
Recognise the weather type (view from my window)? it must be (nearly) Willie week!:
who cares? we come for the music and the Guinness, not for the sunshine
I feckin care, I live here and while this sort of weather usually only starts during the first week of July, it’s early this year. Unfortunately it can hang around for a long time, way after you’ve all cleared off again. It drives me and just about everybody else who is here full time up the wall after a while. It’s the weather that makes people flock to the edge of the Cliffs of Moher.
And besides, Willie is hardly fun if everybody, smelly and damp, crams into the pubs so you can’t move around (if you can get in at all) inside while it’s pissing damp out.
So there. That’s how I feel about it.
What are all those poles for in the picture of your front yard?
djm
The lines that bring the telephone, electricity and the internet to the house are hung off them.
i can understand that, Peter. I live in a village too, about the same size as Miltown, and we have a major event here in june, with thousands of people coming. i am lucky because our house is kind of hidden behind a forest in a side street. but for the rest it’s even worse than Willie week, you can’t even walk in the main street here. On the other hand, it lasts only 2 days, and most tourists leave in the evening, so no drunks erring in the streets during night time.
why don’t you go to Spain for a week? enjoy the sunshine, until the invasion of smelly, noisy, thirsty tourists has left your place and you can go back to a quiet and peaceful home town.
Sorry, I couldn’t tell. I have no sense of scale from the picture.
djm
You tend to loose perspective a bit in this type of weather, the lines come down a hill along a little road across from the house. The shot was a medium telephoto so it’s slightly compressed anyway.
And Claudine, why would I go to Spain? There’s nothing for me there, I just hope for decent weather during Willie, it’s much more pleasant if people disperse a bit and there’s no need to go into pubs to stay dry. If I want I can stay at home and as long as I don’t go into town I will not notice anything of the Willie week going on at all. It’s my 28th WCSS I think and mostly about seeing the surviving few at this point and catching up with a few people.
I’m sorry, Peter. I hope it clears up.
(and we’ll take some of that rain off your hands if you can send it to Kentucky!)
If only you’d have Miltown Malbay-like weather in East Durham. It’s so hot. It’s funny because the teachers coming in from Miltown are really living both extreme weathers in two weeks.
The first chipper has taken up it’s parking space outside Ward’s today, an Asian guy has set up a stall selling ear-rings and stuff like that, the street has been clogged by lorries delivering supplies for days now. People are painting their houses, cracks and holes in rotted windowsills are being filled, the Dolphin take away has a new plywood front fitted so everything looks well to the visitors. It’s windy, in between showers it’s actually quite nice at 18 Celsius. The first lost-looking people are wandering up and down the street and the dolphin in the bay is very frisky and messing with the swimmers.
The Dolphin in the Bay - sounds like a tune name to me.
I think you have a knack for this, Peter. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s report!
See you soon Peter - We´ll be in Doolin Friday evening all being well. Same procedure as usual, camp out there and drive into Miltown to see people, have a chat, play some tunes, visit the chip shop, see if there any good CD´s to be had, listen to the Johnny Doran tribute, mainly this time just going to chill out really