Funnily enough, I have been putting my life back into some semblance of order.
<quack> And mine
A year's unemployment was followed by some technical writing contracts, then a company I had worked for a few years ago in various development and support capacities came in for me and kissed it all better for me.
<quack> You'll be after telling them about me
I'm now working in Dublin again (my favourite city in the world) for the whole of 2005. The stability and new-found contentment has given me the courage to dip me toes into the wonderful world of Cricket Web for the first time in 5 months to see how my old friends are.
<quack> Dublin? You be meaning Baile Atha Cliath
What's got into you, DD?
<quack> DO'D
I really haven't got a clue what you are talking about
<quack> Oi'm Oirish, an' de name's Divvil O'Ducky
You'll have to explain that to me
<quack> Look, me boyo - dat guy in de pub de other noight...
Which pub, "The Protestant and Antichrist?" And stop putting on that silly accent
<quack> Aye - he said there was a little bit of Irish in me, because of me being such a great speaker.
When?
<quack> Just before you got thrown out for drunkenness
That was ridiculous - you knocked over a pint of Guinness, all over that chap's lap, when you were demonstrating how to perform the reverse-sweep. And anyway, how does that make you a good speaker?
<quack> The guy behind the bar said I'd kissed the Blarney stone
No, he said that I had to take you home because you'd pi**ed off Barney Stone.
<quack> You've got an answer for everything, haven't you?
I like to think so
<quack> Well answer me this, then. NASA can't do it, Sachin Tendulkar can't do it, Tony Blair can't do it but Cadbury's can.
Can what?
<quack> Milk Tray