I had one of the more painful trips to the beauty salon today, the one whereby they hurt you in the pursuit of beauty. Why’s this we do this again? Anyway, the bribe with which I bribe myself to do this is a trip into Easons in the shopping centre to check out the magazines. [...]
On Thursday, while browsing in Easons, I discovered that WhiteLines, the snowboarding magazine, had a free DVD included with this issue. As past experience has shown free DVDs on the covers of extreme sports magazines to be well worth 7E or so, I bought it, despite not being all that interested in snowboarding.
Part of the [...]
Richard Adinsell – Warsaw Concerto
Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto II in C Minor
Grieg – Piano Concert in Am
Schumann – Piano Concerto in Am
Brahms – Piano Concert II
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto I
Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini
Bach – all the keyboard concertos which are fantastic
Mozart – Piano Concerts 20 and 21
Saint-Saens – Piano Concerts 2, 4 [...]
Well John Fair rang me at lunch time today to sort this out and it’ll be on 1 November, just 2 weeks before my birthday, at 2pm. Here’s hoping it’s not raining.
I’m getting the drift that I’m going to be famous for those two hours. Release of in car video footage on Qik and photos [...]
There, seemingly an age ago, I got this direct message via twitter inviting me on a photowalk at JapFest in Mondello Park. It was…unexpected…to say the least. But I thought, what the hell, I’ve been complaining about being bored with the flowers, no kites, lousy weather and all that nonsense, and motor racing photography is [...]
I was pointed to this by one of my twitter contacts this evening.
Tom Humphries is one of the best, if not the best sports writers in Ireland. But somehow, I found this hard to swallow.
Am I alone in finding the experience of watching Dunne’s demise on Saturday a little too close to the pornography of [...]
Everyone seems to be writing about their memories of 9-11. I am not quite sure why, but seeing as they are, and I feel I’m every bit as special as everyone else, I have mine.
I was at work and someone rang my boss. A few minutes later, the internet connection collapsed and we wound up [...]