Surfergirl magazine is available for free on issuu. Here’s the link. I like Surfer Girl and what I regret most about it is that it didn’t exist when I was 15 years old. It or a windsurfing equivalent. It used to come free with Carve quarterly and now it’s free on its own a few [...]

Renting versus Buying.
In Ireland, renting is
socially unacceptable.
That’s what it boils down to. It doesn’t matter where you are in your life, perfect strangers who know nothing about your life situation will cheerfully advise you that
there will never be a better time to buy.
Despite the fact that what I can buy versus what I can rent….means [...]

I was wandering around art.com when I saw and wanted – immediately – completely desired – this. It would look FANTASTIC in my kitchen.
Of course, if I did put this in the kitchen, I’d probably have to scrap the idea of having a red IKEA kitchen.

Okay. So in that sanctimonious mode, the one that allows me to avoid the hoovering, I was up in time to get to the swimming pool for some insane time like half past eight this morning. It was not an especially positive training system because this morning the obstacle coast was mother and baby time [...]

Inspired by this which arrived in my twitter feed via Visit Kerry.

Keel to Keem Beach, Achill Island. I’m naming this one my scariest because I have tried it twice now and the offshore wind conditions have disuaded me on both occasions. Frankly, the first time I turned around was the second most scared I’ve ever [...]

Via family machinations, I was at Billy Elliot in a London theatre on Thursday night. It doesn’t count quite as West End cos it’s closer to Victoria than anywhere else, being called the Victoria Palace.
Without going into the minutiae, I have to say I enjoyed it. Music not my favourite, but some terrific dancing, fairly [...]

I have, for the first time in a while, complete liberty in deciding what to do for my holidays. This hasn’t happened in about 4 years because I’ve done group/family holidays for the last while.
I know these holidays will be in September. If I thought I could hang in there until November, I would, and [...]

When I get invited to hen parties they involve party gift sets involving feather boas and older women – sisters-in-law making every sort of fecking innuendo going.
I was at one that was based in Clonakilty once. WIth the silly penis straws and all that jazz. Can’t really see the attraction.
But I horrified them. Clon is [...]

My body is somewhat broken. Today I have made it pump a kite. Which is good for the kite. I did that because owing to reasons outside my control, I didn’t manage to go swimming at 8am this morning although I would have been up on time. I did, however, go swimming this evening, and [...]

It doesn’t. And today I’d really like to ask Liz Kearney and her subeditor one simple question.
Why the hell did you not consider height as an issue when writing this piece of utter drivel?
If you read the whole piece of nonsense, you’ll see this quote.
Of course, because dress sizes vary so much from retailer to [...]