It was last January that myself, Andrew Gribben and Simon McCartney decided that enough was enough and Lisburn should to earn its place on the global Open Coffee movement and start our own in Lisburn, days later we had our first meeting in Cafe Vic Ryn on the Moira road and it was born. Things have changed alot over the last year, more ...

Dear Santa, I’m assuming you cannot get me the following 1.  A fully pimped our off road defender 2. A mark 1 golf GTI 3. A mark 1 205 GTI 4. A mark 1 1961 cooper S 5. A Hi-Lux pick up 6. A GT3 7. A range rover sport, any year. 8. A date with Richard Hammond So in absense of the above can I please have the following 1. Clarksons newest DVD 2. Top Gear uncovered DVD 3. A pair of combats for scouts (loads of pockets) 4. A one cup coffee ...

This Saturday a bunch of us are getting together to hits the shops in Belfast but we won’t be spending any money…….. The plan is to photograph and document for future generations the busiest shopping day of the year in the capital city of Belfast.  It’s a great free event put together using the power of twitter ...

To all my readers, To all my followers To all my facebook friends To all my human friends To all I have humored, interested, educated and unintentionally offended To all I have bored with my business and scouting related posts. And to all I have flamed, I wish you a very Merry Christmas Thanks for following !! Here is to 2009, I shall ...

After the success of our our first top gear challenge, we are going to do it all over again !! Feb 27th at 9.07am Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace First one there wins !! Teams, Road cars : Must stick to the speed limits and no sat navs allowed Public transport : No taxi’s allowed Plane : No commercial airlines allowed, you ...

I really would like to give you a review of Del Toro in Lisburn, the new steak house that has just opened however sadly it is not meant to be. I planned on going there on New Years Eve with my family (11 people) to celebrate my Mothers birthday, however a day after making the booking the Manager called me up to inform me that they would ...

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I am not sure if we should say that Open Coffee Lisburn is on tour or if we should just go right ahead and start calling it Open Coffee Banbridge, after all the Lisburn (cell / chapter / branch / franchise / who cares?) was started by a few of us that were attending Belfast Open Coffee. Anyway to make a short story long a few of us were ...

I have been working with ‘the streat’ for nearly two year’s now, providing a complimentary Wi-Fi service to customers in their key stores.  They are a local success story started by Michael and wife Nikki McQuillan (of no relation). The business started from just one store in Belfast in 1999 to a massive franchised ...

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