Templepatrick

In-going and outgoing vehicular traffic was now brought to a standstill, and only motorists whose drivers possessed a pass indicating they were concerned in the business at hand were allowed to pass through the long ring of pickets guarding the approaches.

and then the cars and lorries started arriving they had been converging on lawrence since the afternoon from balamina from belfast every available vehicle not involved in the other operations planned or the belfast ruse a great many of them had secretly assembled at castle upton Lord Templeton's estate in Templepatrick.

And that great cavalcade of cars were soon a strange converging convoy of snaking weirdly assorted vehicles, their headlamps brilliant, and these were met on their approach by the electric lights of the harbour flashing to life, heralding the carefully choreographed operation.

Signallers flashed their lights as dispatched motorcycles passed and repassed up and down the by-nigh long single convoy.

I think flags.

I think of when I was a kid, not being able to get an ice cream because all the roads were blocked because of what was happening at Drum Cree Church, right? Okay? Not being able to get past the roundabout in Temple Patrick, the mods, to get a video of VHS, that's how old I am, and an ice cream, right? Some Pooh Bear ice cream because the roundabout was blocked, right? And I was young enough...

not to understand the politics, but I was old enough to know this whole thing is really silly.

So I want to make this clear.

Let's have a look at what's in the diary.

Templepatrick Horticultural Society will meet on Monday the 19th of October at 7:30 in Coleman's Garden Center, Templepatrick.

The guest speakers are Jules and Dave from Esker Daffodil Farm.

On Tuesday night, the Fermanagh Garden Society will meet at the Killyhelen Hotel.

I went, I went down there last October.

And you went to SuperValu as well, and you drove from Galway to Belfast International Airport all by yourself until you got to Templepatrick.

Do you remember that?

Yes, I do.

Oh, and if people want to c- come and actually try the horses first, whereabouts are you based?

We are in Templepatrick, County Antrim.

We are two hours from Dublin Airport, and we are 20 minutes from Belfast International and Belfast City.

Big thank you to Sammy and Joanne for joining us and sharing the stories behind this year's collection.