Set up 20 years ago by founder Janice Wolf (what are the chances?) The Rocky Ridge Refuge in Arkansas is home to 60 wild and domestic animals including dogs, a miniature horse, various cats, skunks, a zebra, tortoises and a capybara who all appear to get along just fine.
Many more pictures here.
Avoca, Rathcoole, Co Wicklow Dublin this lunchtime.
Thanks Chris Doyle
[Newly-elected new York Mayor Bill de Blasio]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed he will boycott the city’s St Patrick’s Day parade due to the effective exclusion of the LGBT community from the event.
He is the first mayor in over 20 years to do so.
“I simply disagree with the organisers of that parade in their exclusion of some individuals in this city,” he said. He stopped short of barring city employees [police and fire officers] from marching in uniform, disappointing many LGBT advocacy groups.
De Blasio to Skip St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Cites Exclusion of Gay Groups (New York Times)
New York Mayor to boycott St Patrick’s Day parade over LGBT exclusion (RTE)
Previously: The New York St Patrick’s Day Parade Guidelines
(HuffPo)
A menu for a Valentine’s Day-themed dinner at the Members’ Restaurant in Leinster House next Tuesday and Wednesday (February 11 and 12) for €25pp.
Price includes roses on arrival ‘for the ladies’ and four courses, which include a steak option and complimentary chocolate truffles.
Prosecco will be sold for €5 a glass.
The courses:
A quick embrace:
Tony’s Cashel blue experience, pickled pear, tossed salad
Baked asparagus, lemon & lime seduction
Dublin bay prawn bisque, brown bread
Fresh beetroot & orange salad, honey & walnut dressing, croutons of love
The proposal:
Romantic duo of cod & salmon, red pepper soubise
Grilled rib eye steak, garlic herb butter
Ricotta & spinach tortellini, oregano & basil pomodora
Tray bake togetherness of chicken breast, preserved lemon & chorizo
Served with Sweet Potato & duchess potato
Sealed with a kiss:
Lover’s shortbread & fresh strawberries, on a bed of rose petals
Exotic Fruit Melody
Cleopatra’s Tiramisu
Passion fruit Mousse, luscious ice cream
Hand roasted coffee and real leaf tea
Crikey.
It’s all well and good these peNOMNOMNOMNOM
Thanks Tumbledry
Pic: Oireachtas.ie
“Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . . ”
According to Vanity Fair, this was a note written by Wendi Deng, ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, about former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The note was used as evidence in the Murdochs’ divorce case last year.
Previously: That Was Deng
Niall Carson/Photocall Ireland
Meanwhile…
Oh bubba.
Notebook (top) and tea towels (above) ‘Sealed With Irish Love’
Máire McKeogh writes:
I launched ‘Sealed with Irish Love’ in October 2013 creating homeware and gift products for people looking for a flavour of Ireland in their homes. Designs such as the windswept hawthorn tree; old Irish bicycle; village water pump and bird feathers are inspired by ramblings and road trips across the Irish countryside. All made with love in Dublin.
Irish-made stuff marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No fee, favours, tea towels required..
A bike/scooter/rollerblade hybrid (€450) available in six colours and two sizes.
It’s called the AeYO.
As in Ae Yo, what the hell is that?
Taoiseach tells #dail “I tell you this muchm there will be no more planning permissions issues for flood plains” #toolate ???
— Páraic Gallagher (@paraicgallagher) February 5, 2014