Planning on selling my car, and in a relative hurry to get it done fairly quickly, I went and signed up with the Buy & Sell web site, thinking it would be a good quick way of getting it advertised to thousands of people. How wrong I was! FIVE days after submitting my ad, their “editorial team” still haven’t reviewed the ad and approved it for inclusion in the site. So much for the Internet making things faster and easier. I’ll have the bloody thing sold by the time the ad goes up!

This is it here. [Picture removed] Nice little car it is too. It’s got a 1.4 litre engine and five doors and has had a pretty complete overhaul recently with a €750 service this time last year, the windscreen being replaced, the exhaust pipes and boxes being replaced, four new tyres being put on in the last few months and a lovely new “Vanillaroma” scented pine tree air freshener hanging from the rear-view mirror(!) I’ve been looking for what it’s worth – no more, no less. A local (very trustworthy) car salesman and mechanic told me that it’s current value is between €2,000 and €2,500.

In other news, my incredibly benevolent employers, Harvey Norman, are opening yet another new store this year – next month in Tralee, Co. Kerry. This may have been a secret, but the jobs posted on Jobs.ie sort of let the cat out of the bag… For anyone with experience in sales, specifically in computers or electrical goods – down in the Kingdom – it’s worth checking them out. A friend of mine is going to be the proprietor of the computer department down there. He’s a good guy to work for – one of those “firm but fair” types. This weekend, the company are throwing us a Christmas party down in Dublin. I find myself wondering if it will present yet another chance to meet Gary, the man who does the Harvey Norman radio ads. If so, I also wonder how many people would be interested in knowing his exact whereabouts next Saturday night so they can come and beat him with hurleys…

By the way, if you’re the sort of person to wield a hurley as a weapon (unlike yours truly, who instead owns a scottish claymore sword), then you’re probably what they call a “bogger”. If you want to find out for sure, some smart git from UCD has made the “bogger test“. Check it out, for a (brief) laugh. At yourself.

I actually took the test and got the “congratulations, you are civilised” result. (I should bloody well hope so!)… My partner took it though, and she got the “oh my god, you’re a raving bogger!” result, which honestly didn’t surprise me one bit, her being from Kavanagh country as she is, – and also knowing (and CARING, no less) what the difference between silage, hay and straw is, and actually ADMITTING to using or having used phrases such as “oh be the jaysus/be the hokey” and “howld yer whisht!”.

Well, begorrah, I’ll be back soon with another thunderin’ heifer of a blog entry. In the meantime, oi be orf to mend moi tractor…