but enough about you Northern hemisphere aggrandists, let's talk about me !!

Or at least our session here in Brisbane. yes, the Queensland Irish Association, Wednesday nights. As the foundation irish instituion in these sub-tropical parts, do they turn off the footie, baseball, Monster truck races ? of course not that would offend the punters.

so last night in a porter fog I dared the barman Leo ( good man , leo, free pints to meself, and a ready smile, unlike the other automatons who haven't a clue about session bonhomie and joie de vivre - I dared leo to turn the teev off. God he just walked over and killed it. Oh i cheered. For 2 years since the inception of the session, everyone had been too shit-scared to even think of suggesting this, but it was so easy in the end