Witty Words - and not even mine!

With these lovely summer days, I am sure the world will do very nicely thank you without a long blog posting from Moi.  So today I am compiling a few words of wit, accidental or otherwise, from some of my favorite witty people or at least some people, favorite or otherwise, who have spoken some of my favorite witty words. 

I hope these funnies will give you all a chuckle as you lounge under a palm tree/ by the sea/lake/river/in the garden/sit on a crowded hot bus/ fight with the mosquitoes/feel awfully uncomfortable in your ´a little too tight´ Unterhose und so weiter. Or as you English speakers say might say ´underpants and so on´.

  

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde 

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain 

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Mark Twain 

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain 

The quotes from Messrs. Twain and Wilde above are taken from Brainy Quote -  always a good source for witty words of wisdom.     http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde_2.html

Why ruin a good story with the truth

Chubby Brennen

This variation on Mr. Twain´s quote above was uttered by the self same Chubby Brennan who is a head honcho associated with the world famous (in some places) Wellie Race in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny

I don´t need to exercise – my two brothers do enough for the three of us.

Thomas Crotty - brother

                   

And the best source for wisdom and wit – children.

The following quotes come from letters written to God from children in the Homework Club, St. Canice´s, Kilkenny.

 Dear God, In bible times, did they really talk that fancy? 

 Jennifer

Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in the church.  Is that O.K.?` 

 Niel

Dear God, I think the staple is one of your greatest inventions. 
Ruth M.

Dear God, I am American.  What are you?  

Robert

Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
Joyce

Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world.  There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
Nan

I hope you are having a wonderful summer, where ever you are reading this.

The life, times and true confession of a Hard Core Pruner!

Ye gods, my blog posting from the road did not appear to up load.  Bah humbug!

I hope my hard core fan base (of 2!)  could handle a whole month without one blog posting from Hausfrau Roisin.

And speaking of hard core...

I am in fact a hard core pruner and I don´t deny it.   In fact, I am very proud to be a real life official Citizen Pruner. I kid you not. Officially!

I am on my holidays now, with not too much access to computers.  But fear not, and lucky you,  you can read all about it at: 

http://friendsofgantry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Gantry-Rosaleen-tree-story-2012.pdf

Have a nice read.

Hausfrau Roisin

Buggati - a celebration of excellence.

Although I am a `bike / mofa Mensch`myself,  ( to the non-German speaking readers, that is to say I am into bicycles and Mopeds), but I do admit a recent trip to the Schlumpf Museum in Mulhouse France a short time ago did.... well .....impress.  And no, the Schlumps are NOT the Schmurfs´ German cousins!

Now for those of you reading this who think a Buggati is variation of a French Baguette,  you would be about 1/8 right:  The Buggati in question is Italian, he was a designer and producer of cars.  But I suggest the use of the noun ´car´ may be a misnomer.  Each car, which was lovingly designed and manufactured, was nothing short of a creation of technical genius and artistic beauty - and here´s me the mofa mensch talking!

So the ´1/8  right ´bit. Well the cars were made in what was then Germany, but after World War I became part of France.

And how did I become a born again Buggati fan I know you all ask in astonishment?   Well on holidays recently in the Markgräflerland region of S.W. Germany, we were very near Muhouse in France. On a very wet day we were in need of  a `plan B` which that day was a visit to the Schlumpf Museum in Mulhouse.

The creation of the Schlumpf Museum is a great story in itself.   The museum was built around the the private collection of cars of excellence lovingly AND SECRETLY collected by the brothers Schlumpf.   

Should you be into gossip, or cars,  you could well enjoy reading up on how the museum came into being in the first place.

Wikipedia states ..A team of up to 40 carpenters, saddlers, and master mechanics were assembled to carry out the restoration work, who under a confidentiality agreement kept their work and the scale of the collection a secret -  Many, including members of Bugatti clubs around the world, knew of the collection. The scale of the enterprise surprised almost everybody.` To read more of this intrigue go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_de_l%27Automobile

 THIS ... is what I am talking about!

 The Royale  a Bugatti that was designed with the royal customers in mind.  One of these beauties sold in the U.S. in 1991 for $8,000,000 give or take.  If you are confused on the naughts, that´s 8 million!




Other cars that tickled my fancy included ...

And fair dues,  either Mr. Bugatti or one of  the brothers Schlumpf at least, was clearly a supporter of the Kilkenny hurlers - what when they finished four different models that I saw in the Kilkenny colurs!

This one was my favorite for the drive to Croak Park for  the All-Ireland hurling final next September.

Up the Kilkenny Cats!

Not a Bugatti, rather a Mercedes Benz.  It was the one car both Romeo H and I both agreed we would bring home.

This was a favorite of Romeo H´s.  Can´t say it excited me.

It was one of the very few cars that did not. 

Something to do with movies on T.V. as a child... Mmm won´t have that parked outside my home any time soon.  And of course it is NOT a Bugatti!

Under way á deux ....    

But my very favorite Bugatti....

  It this just amazing or what!

Or just for days that one feels that one  just wants to fly solo -  how about this Bugatti  beauty...

Nothing sloppy about this gem of genius or wha!









On a reality check Romeo H pointed out the world might be a safer place if I drove - the Oeuf!  :(    -  Built in 1948 by an architect, it was still driving on the streets of Paris in 1992!

And I kid you not, this guy´s second car was this!    Serious.  He designed and built this car too.  All this on the side, in his day job he worked as an architect. 

And on the other extreme: the car or `no choice´in the former DDR.

Sunset on the Bodensee.

The sun set tonight.  These pictures were taken less than an hour ago.

Not too much that I can add to improve those images.   So I won´t.

For Women, Ladies and Girls only.....

.... and if any men, gentleman or lads decide to risk a look-in, I am warning you now, this is strictly girl stuff that will be in the ´too much information´ zone for you.  So lads if you do read on, you do so at your peril.   

So, now for the women, ladies and girls.

In 2005 The Oprah Winfrey Show in the U.S. did a show on bra fittings.  Bra fitting experts - (yes, you nosy men who are still reading, bra wearing is not as simply as ´put on and fasten´), said most women wear the wrong size bra for their body type.  Some brave women from the audience came forward to have their bra size checked and sure enough most of the women were wearing an incorrect fitting bra. That is consistent with a number of reports on the highly uplifting subject of bra fitting which state that between 80% and 85% of women wear the wrong size bra.

The response after the airing of the show was huge.  Bra sales across the U.S. shot up for months afterwards.  Susan Nethero the owner of Intimacy a lingerie company who appeared on the show, said in the Chicago Tribune  ...`women came to us by the hundreds — they were lined up for months after the show — prepared for six- to eight-hour waits for bra fittings".  (Lads - did n´t I tell ye this was going to be too much girl stuff).

And what has this to do with Hausfrau Roísín or Irish Stew for the Soul?  I hear you ask somewhat perplexed.  Well I´ll tell you what.  After seeing the show in May 2005, I put it on my ´to do list in life´ to have a bra fitting done by a professional bra fitter:  The fact is I would dearly love to leave the house every day looking like Audrey Hepburn in  Charade - (all that glamour and out of only one suitcase!)  But, I am not prepared to allocate the time and energy necessary  to look that fabulous everyday -  heck I would have no time to write a blog then!  In addition, I am not particularly gifted in the area of putting together a stylish or elegant fashion ensemble.  I know it when I see it, but I cannot so easily make it happen for myself.   Occasional, very occasionally I get it together fashion wise but other times my attire may be described as ... well...  ´interesting`.  (Indeed with New York based Sue and Liz  my ´fashion Polizei´ not being at  hand by Lake Konstanz to guide and direct, my attire may perhaps be even a tad more ´interesting´ by times than it used to be in my days of living in New York).  One might not think therefore, that the pursuit of the perfect foundation was a life priority for me.  But it is.  So there you are.

And so it came to pass in March 2013, 8 years after bra show first aired, that I  finally had the chance to have a professional bra fitting. - Hey what can I tell you, I live a very important busy exciting life, doing very important busy exciting things, I don´t always have time to book bra fittings!  Anyway, there I stood before the door of  MarieSue Lingerie in Carlow - world famous in Ireland for being the only store in the whole country to stock AAA to K cup sizes. (More information on MarieSue and her miniscule to voluminous cups below).  I was here and I was ready to be measured for, and ready to buy, the perfect bra for me.   The able young assistant Erica did her business, and she did it well.  Not surprisingly because bra fitting is in her genes, she being the daughter of the Marie in MarieSue.

Well would you believe it, low and behold  -  I was wearing the `perfect bra for me`  Yes, MOI was already wearing the perfect bra!  All by myself I had discovered the best fit, lift, cross and separate for my body type and size. The ´fashion Polizei´ would be impressed with that - here I was one of the exclusive 15% who got the fit right!  And another thing.  Anyone who has read my blog posting from January 29th, 2011, will know I paid a LOT less for my perfect fit than many of the 85%.  All this, all by myself.  Wow the thrill of it!

What a day that was;  now I could walk down any high fashion street in the world, be it in Carlow town or Paris, confident that I had optimal support, and, one more thing crossed off my ´to do list in life`.  All this achieved in the one measure.   Thank you Ms. Nethero, I have no need of your services! 


(The regular blog readers will note the layout of blog page has been modified, and is hopefully, nicer on the eye.  I felt today was a good day to work on enhancing the look of the blog, considering the theme of the day!)





A picture of moi basking in the glow of the certain knowledge that I have maximized the uplift, separate and optimization of my foundations.  

- And if any lads who have dared to read this far are thinking `What is she talking about, ´sur is n´t it only a picture of herself in a frock!` 

Ah ladies,  I can only say `do they have a clue what an effort it takes to look this ´natural`! 





 

The next blog posting will be open to all readers, regardless of gender. Promise!

Note: Information on MarieSue in Carlow.

 MarieSue Lingerie
27a Fairgreen Shopping Centre, 
Carlow, 
Ireland

Tel:+ 353 (0) 59 913 9639 

Their information on the  Fairgeen Shopping Centre website explains .. ´MarieSue Lingerie  situated at the Barrack St Entrance to the Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow are Irelands only Lingerie Shop stocking sizes AAA-K cup sizes.  We offer a professional measuring and fitting service and we are also HSE approved for mastectomy fittings.`

We stock all the top brands Fantasie, Freya, Elomi, Chantelle, Passionata, Panache, Shockabsorber, Wonderbra, Playtex, Triumph, Anita, Hotmilk and many others.`

I would recommend a stop off at MarieSue´s if you are traveling anywhere in the Carlow area, and your foundations are in  need a ´tune up´.
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For the life of me, I don´t know how anyone can leave comments or feedback on a blog. But I did have feed back posted to me.   See below.

...... read your blog and thank you so much for mentioning us.  Your blog is very informative, interesting and funny.  Thanks again......  I will pass on your kind words to Erica.

Yours sincerely,
Maria Byrne.
MarieSue Lingerie Ltd.,
"dressing you from the inside out" 

......Very informative article indeed. I am constantly reminded of how much easier it is to be a guy.....

....finally got around to your most recent blog post. Great addition and very "uplifting" in more ways than one......The best part is that I could hear your voice in my ear when I read it.   .....

A Route with a View

Winter here in Allensbach on Lake Konstanz was thankfully not particularly hard.... but it was loooong!  Then spring arrived  last week - with GUSTO!

That first lovely spring day that came to us in Allensbach, I took photos of my route to and from work. -  See if you can beat this for a view on your going to and coming from work.

  

The house, rather the house that was, in the photo above is more of interest for things other than beauty.  But, it is en route so I can legitimately include it in this group of photos; I marvel at German building practices for their technique and efficiency.  O.K. O.K. I am not the first to make note of German efficiency, I KNOW that!

Anyway!  This is a semi-detached house.  One half of the house was carefully and speedily deconstructed in the course of about 5 days.  All the while people were living in the other half of the house.  I don´t know about you, but if I had lived next door I would move into the local B&B when work was in progress.   But from what I can surmise, the German people take their own efficiency so much for granted, that  the neighbors were quite happy to stay put when the other half of the house was being demolished next door.

Last week winter coats, this week, swim suits and sun shades.  Oh joy oh joy.  

 *  I wonder if any of my five readers -  or is it six now, copped that I slightly modified the English author E.M. Foster´s book title for my blog title? Foster wrote A Room with a View in 1908; the book is about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England - not that the Edwardians had a monopoly on cultural repression!  Foster´s book is set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a perspective on English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1998 the book was ranked 79th on a list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by Modern Library.  And more FYI:  James Joyce´s Ulysses was no. 1 on the same list, and his Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man was no. 3 on the list.

Who says you don´t get a bit of culture here with your Irish Stew!