the bad part is I know want a telescope again. A decent one I mean.

From here.
A soft landing is nothing of the kind…it means that prices don’t correct rationally, and it is only a conduit for suggesting to people that in fact, it will all be okay when they wonder about the wisdom of what they have done.
The point is, property in this country is disproportionately costed vis a [...]

I’m confused and I suspect many people are. We have a property market. We have an economy.
Up until 2006, property prices in Ireland were largely on an upward trajectory. So upward, in fact, that a lot of people could not actually afford to buy property. Anecdotally, there’s a stat floating around that said 40% of [...]

This is from the Carneval parade. Yeah, you could get that close. They took a night off from it last night as witnessed by the fact that things are quiet.
Yesterday I took the train des Pignes from Nice to Digne-les-Bains. If you’ve read Les Miserables, you’ll have heard of this place. If you haven’t, then [...]

I’ve been in Nice before, many years ago. I can’t remember exactly how long ago it was but I remember I got the train from Saint Andre les Alpes to Nice and it took about 2 and a half hours. I want to do the same journey again on the assumption that the place is [...]

Okay. O2 are going to screw me for data charges today because I used data roaming on my phone. Meanwhile, my hotel has wifi which is a) going to cost me money and b) not letting me access any of my email servers. Nor can I get to Skype or twitter.
Not impressed. At least I [...]

Until today, I would have said that the most scared I’ve ever been driving was trying to do a hill start on a mountain in France with a 45 degree gradient. It freaked me out big time.
Today, however, I got to drive home in very heavy snow along backroads from Trim to the M3 [...]

Last night I wandered into Vicar Street to see Midlake play. They were fantastic. Up front.
Of course, I had no idea what to expect since I hadn’t really searched on Youtube for them, depending only on the tracks that sit on my iPod. On stage, they are a lot heavier than their CDs would suggest. [...]

So Deirdre de Burca walked as well as George Lee earlier in the week. Are they any loss? You’d have to wonder. You’d really have to wonder. George Lee – best known for depressing economics reports on RTE. Deirdre de Burca, best known for losing her deposit at the last European elections.
How have they changed [...]

To be honest, I never thought that George Lee had made a particularly wise move when he decided to move from being RTE’s economics correspondant to being a FG candidate in Dublin south. I have some sympathy that he found this out the hard way, by trying.
The political arena in Ireland is not always the [...]