Asleep on the Compost Heap: My Home Town: a photo essay (NSFW or NSFCL Not Safe For Cat Lovers)

1/15/12

My Home Town: a photo essay (NSFW or NSFCL Not Safe For Cat Lovers)

Visitors to the Kells online website will note the town's quixotic quest to have a volume of a famous manuscript removed from Trinity College and permanently 'returned' to us (because, erm, a treasure of national significance belongs to the town near where it was found). Understanding the magnitude of the endeavour, I've decided to help the town's chamber of commerce with some photojournalism to bolster their PR effort. It's a series of images that give a flavour of the picturesque and historical town on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

I call it My Home Town: A Photo Essay in eight parts. Enjoy.

When in my home town, why not engage in some retail therapy?

The 'some things he can't pick up' campaign targets town dogowners...

...yet fails to take off

hungry? try our Meath-renowned curry chips

Who needs Paris's Left Bank when you can people watch on the town's great thoroughfare, Farrell Street?

a wise man said that Ireland experiences cultural renaissance in times of recession

we welcome the smoker...

...and the outdoor drinker...

do not click 'read more' below if you are a cat lover or squeamish...

...cats, however, might consider a diversion to Navan

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11 comments:

LUCEWOMAN said...: Get me a ticket for Brendan Grace.; January 16, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Anonymous said...: It's always easy to mock those who dream big. But unless people like that existed - we would still be in the trees pulling ticks off each other's back.

I applaud your small mindedness and wish you joy in it.; January 16, 2012 at 3:05 AM
TAD said...: G: Oh My Ghod. Hilarious. Love the poop-scoop sign especially. (Is there REALLY a 3,000-euro fine?!)
Will you B doing more work 4 the Chamber of Commerce, then? Or did they want something DIFFRENT? Something all upscale & boring, perhaps?
(& will there B a Part 2 with strip clubs & adult book shops...?); January 16, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Gardenhead said...: @Luce he's sold out!
@anonymous - yeah that's me, smallminded to the last.
@Tad those fines are never ever successfully prosecuted.; January 16, 2012 at 11:01 AM
PUCK said...: Brilliant!; January 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM
PUCK said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; January 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM
TAD said...: Hey, G!: You got a "shite" rating 4 yer photo essay! Congratulations! I'm so jealous, really! I always said whenever some1 finally told me I was fulla shit, that meant I'd finally gotten this blogging stuff down and ... you've been doing this how long? Anyway, that's great, & I'm not joking, & who cares if people don't know freaking genius when they see it...? At least they thot enuf of you 2 comment....; January 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Gardenhead said...: @Tad ah yeah, sure if I didn't want shite ratings I could have made those boxes read great, great, and great haha.; January 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Anonymous said...: He is highlighting the total and repeated failure of kells town councils 'efforts' to better our town.

The small things needed to be sorted before we can 'dream big'. Paid parking....to shop in Kells?! That sums it all up really.; January 21, 2012 at 2:58 AM
Gardenhead said...: I love Kells BTW...hate to see it in such a wreck.; January 21, 2012 at 9:08 PM
sarah_mixtapes said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; January 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM