Willie Clancy Week 2008

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:31 pm

It's getting close - any of you good people going ?

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:10 pm

i am

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:33 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

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:19 pm

now come on, Az, seems that you got plenty of nice workshops on the other side of the pond

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:37 am

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.

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:02 pm

hey peter, have the "puke mobiles" parked on the main st yet??

they usually arrive up a few days beforehand.. mmm burgers!

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:26 am

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!:

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:34 am

who cares? we come for the music and the Guinness, not for the sunshine

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:09 am

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.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:14 am

What are all those poles for in the picture of your front yard?

djm

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:17 am

The lines that bring the telephone, electricity and the internet to the house are hung off them.

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:39 am

Peter Laban wrote: 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.

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.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:14 am

Sorry, I couldn't tell. I have no sense of scale from the picture.

djm

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:47 am

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.

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:20 pm

Peter Laban wrote: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!)