Television today has been pretty lousy and it doesn’t look like it is going to get any better. To get around this, there are DVDs.
Today’s viewing, not shown by any television channel this side of the Shannon, included The Dish. It is an absolutely wonderful movie about Parkes Observatory in Australia, which provided most of [...]
It being winter, a new shawl is under production. It is being made of Rowan Kidsilk haze, the expensive version with interesting colour way.
It means that my knit group now assess yarn purchases in terms of whether it is as much money as Treasa would spend or somewhat less bankrupting. I have 100g of the [...]
As a result of the maths course, I have recently been in the market for a scientific calculator. Being not fully au fait with these things I hadn’t a clue what to look for but someone recommended I look in Reads for one.
Reads did indeed have scientific calculators, including mainly ones acceptable to assorted exam [...]
One of my friends was looking for edible glitter yesterday so we spent some time in Stock and Kitchen Complements not too far from Saint Stephen’s Green SC yesterday. I have spent much money in both shops when I did the skydiving altimeter cake a few months ago so I knew more or less where [...]
When you get the RER from Charles de Gaulle Airport into the centre of Paris, one of the city centre stations you can get off at is Chatelet and by miles of tunnels, when you get out there, you can find yourself in Forum-Les Halles, a large and very confusing shopping centre. No trip to [...]
This is just a piece of art I based off a recent photograph taken in Clare. I wanted something to bring a little colour to this piece.
Via Lonely Planet’s twitter feed which Flipboard serves me on my iPad from time to time, I happened across this piece. It caught my attention because I know – [...]
Last week, I took a mad fit and asked the nice people at The Pen Corner in Dame Street to see if it was possible to get an Ecridor Eclat and if so, how much would it cost.
I put a lot of effort into pricing one of these on the web during the winter and [...]
Yours truly is typing from West Cork where Inchydoney Island Spa have thoughtfully provided wifi and not made it hellish to actually connect to it. This is in sharp contrast to the last few hotels I’ve stayed in (Looking at you, hotel in Nice/France of which I’ve forgotten the name). I can’t fault the staff [...]
This was first published on the windsandbreezes.org site nearly 5 years ago. As it is one of those entries that I particular liked (which I realise is a little narcisstic) I have chosen to put it here so that at least I can find it again without having to try and navigate my way through [...]
It being close to 14 February, most of the marketing stuff coming my way involves special Valentine’s offers and the newspapers are full of pieces of love and romance and some sort of insane notion that they are the same thing. Television is full of romantic movies; the first time I saw When Harry Met [...]