I was doing some of the Christmas shopping. There was a time when I used to do that some time in November but unfortunately reality occasionally gets in the way.
I wanted to check out a bookshop called The Gutter Bookshop. They tweet, you see, and in a conversational manner rather than in a steady stream [...]
I don’t garden. Partly this is because for a long time I lived in apartments abroad where gardening wasn’t an option and when I did start doing anything at all with plants it involved mint plants.
During the year in a charity plant sale at work I bought 2 strawberry plants in the hope that in [...]
National Concert Hall, last Thursday night. I’m usually there in time to play games on my phone or, if I’m really prepared, to do a little light knitting. Thursday nights, however, don’t work for this. I made it into the auditorium as they were closing the doors because I spent a very long time on [...]
This one may be best for Kevin I think.
I was listening to Acoustic Cafe on Radio Io today, through my iPhone. I tend to do it through the phone more often than not because the iphone application currently doesnt’ have ads, and while the Radio IO ads are not particularly annoying, it’s nice not to [...]
I went on a book buying binge on Friday. I really shouldn’t have because it’s much cheaper on amazon. But Hughes & Hughes had books I didn’t know I wanted and one of them was Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchand. It was about something which I read a little about some six – twelve [...]
The knitting and stitching show is on in the RDS this weekend. I have no money left so I am not going. I am also frantically trying to destash and as such have 3 projects on the go. I will be going back to the most pressing of them, the infamous can’t do cardigan which [...]
So I’ve been bashing Alison O’Riordan’s writing in the Sunday Independent and Irish Times of late for being not great, really. To be honest, it disillusioned me to see it getting published.
For an altogether much better piece of writing on how the economic travails are affecting someone, I’m going to point to Claire X in [...]
I am about to go back to the crochet which is not working out for me at all. But before I go, this is a route to escape the mundane of Ireland.
This is one of my favourite pieces of music; it’s about 10 minutes long, and it dates from 1975. I am not typically a [...]
I fell in love with Jean-Michel Jarre when I was just 14 years old. When I was 15, I got to go to Destination Docklands and that’s almost 22 years ago to the day last night when I went and got to see him for a fourth time. I still love him.
Last night was great [...]
A few weeks ago, Kevin left a comment on the blog to let me know that I might be interested in this gig that was playing at the Seamus Ennis Centre in the Naul. Or Naul which is how it appears on maps.
So I booked tickets for myself and my sister and her husband and [...]