ARE all your friends jetting off to fabulous foreign climes for August? Leaving you at home, lonely, with only their postcards - "You would just love Boca Raton, dearie" - to look forward to?
Well, teach the slimeballs a lesson and get your retaliation in first. Don't delay, act today, and send us a letter explaining why you would be just the coolest critic we need for the second Beck's Taste of Temple Bar Awards, the glitzy showcase for great grub from Dublin's rive gauche.
We want four amateur food lovers to join a quartet comprising TV director and producer Bill Hughes, journalist Ann Marie Hourihan, food writer Petra Carter and nascent heartthrob Minno Ralmon from teen sensations to be Only Us.
And the task which will make your far flung so called friends Kelly green with envy? Simple. Join us in eating in Temple Bar's multifarious restaurants, with the aim of selecting the best places in a variety of categories. No stress. No sun tan lotion. No annoying inoculation jabs. Just glorious food.
So grab that pen, strike up that fax, and tell us why you would be a good critic, an expert appreciator, why you want to be the Leavis of the lunchset. Keep it snappy, and send it to The Editor, Weekend, The Irish Times, D'Olier street, Dublin 2.