Ice Cream Ireland

This is Lola, who I met in Dingle today. She likes sorbet. Raspberry sorbet, in fact. I’ve never met a dog before who likes sorbet, even though our own Ivan is fond enough of ice cream. He’d never stand on two legs for it, though, and he’d never touch sorbet.

There’s just no accounting for taste!

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 These five (some of our best customers) have a serious interest in ice cream!

They were celebrating completion of the Dingle Chamber of Commerce treasure hunt…

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 It’s been a while since uncle fever has hit this site, so here are a couple of photos of my niece Una.

The background:

We ordered some props for our Mexican Flavour Fiesta (hats, ponchos, and even mustaches – spare a thought for our poor staff), and when I arrived at our Dingle shop this afternoon, I found Una trying on one of the hats.

I thought it was so cute, I had to bolt home to grab my camera.

She had run out of patience with the hat by the time I returned, so I had to bribe her with ice cream to get her to pose. I think it was well worth it!

Anyway, we’ve made most of the fiesta ice creams, and there’s only a week to go before the food festival. We’re all looking forward to it, and I just hope our customers like the Mexican flavours as much as we do!

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I hope you find these as cute as I do.

(Thanks Anna, Aisling and Rúna for posing and thanks also to their accomodating parents!)

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This was sent in by my Istanbul correspondent. As you can see, love of ice cream transcends culture…

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Today, I wanted to take a couple of photos of ice cream. I put out a cone to do some exposure tests, then went inside to fetch a different lens.

I hadn’t noticed the presence of Gatsby, the ice cream cat, but when I returned with my lens, I caught him making the most of his opportunity.

Cheeky creature!

It’s kind of hard to take photos while laughing, but I managed to snap off a few.

Gatsby doesn’t like much being the object of humour and knew he was riding his luck, so he stalked off pretty quickly.

Funny as it was, I don’t think this sets a good precedent.

No doubt taking photos of ice cream at home has just become that little bit more difficult!

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It was a busy weekend in the shop, and one highlight was Copernicus stopping in for some coffee. Another big highlight was that my brother Sean’s baby Una had her first taste of ice cream. Una’s grandmother is visiting, and as we all know, grandmothers can be much easier to convince than mothers. Sean’s wife, Wiebke, has been very strict about keeping ice cream away from the baby, but when Una was in the care of her grandmother and reached for the ice cream, she got it.

It’s wonderful to see the expression on a baby’s face at the first taste of ice cream. It’s so different from what they have experienced, especially in terms of temperature, so there is always puzzlement, shock, and delight.

Of course, Una found it just as interesting to stick her fingers in the ice cream as she did eating it…

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 This evening, Sean met Michael McDowell at his constituency office in Dublin, where the Justice Minister had returned after a long day on the campaign trail. Mr. McDowell kindly made time for a photo.

Here’s the fact file:

• Candidate: Michael McDowell, Tainaiste 
• Party: Progressive Democrats (Party Leader)
• Constituency: Dublin Southeast 
• Flavour: Fanaile agus silin (vanilla with a cherry on top)
• Position on ice cream: I like ice cream.

I think this will be the final one in the series, as tomorrow there is no campaigning… Best of luck to all the candidates, and my apologies to all the ones we missed! 

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