Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
Advertise here
Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
streel
An untidy person; also, to trail or drag something along behind you.
How it's said
From the Irish straoill. Both the noun and the verb are used — a child can be a streel, and a coat can streel in the mud.
A young one home from school with the coat streeling behind her in the wet.
Where that comes from
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road