The strawberries are all basically buried under an inch or two of snow at the moment. A trip around the estate where I live revealed a number of palm trees covered in snow.
It’s all very beautiful.
With an office set up, more or less…it’s happened that I’m not joined umbillically to my computer any more so…Last night I watched some television. I very, very rarely do this. It’s how I manage to avoid ads which is really important in the grand scheme of things.
Last night, however, I managed to spend three [...]
I don’t read very many web comics but about 3 or 4 years ago I discovered something called Questionable Content, because it did a funny day swap with XKCD which I’m sure everyone in the world knows about. Nor do I watch soap operas. However, there’s something very engaging about QC in a soap operaish [...]
Yesterday I started a draft listing the things that really, really annoy me about the new house. I was in a very bad mood because of the oven which I’ve already whinged about. However, I’m really going to summarise it as follows:
who decided that sloping window sills in the bathroom and kitchen were a good [...]
My mother is about to start knitting a cardigan for my great niece, one that she saw in the Woman’s Weekly. They occasionally have interesting looking knitting and crochet patterns; I’ve a cardigan set aside upstairs. Anyway, she toured the yarn shops in Cork and drew a blank on the yarn she was looking for [...]
You know the world is changing when you get unexpected news via twitter instead of via the radio. Last night, from a retweet from some skateboarder, I heard Andy Irons, the surfer, had died.
I’ve never met him, but he won the world championship 3 times, and the last time I watched him surf I think [...]
And yes, this is Ireland, and I know it rains. But this is also November, the month of winter storms. So not only is it wet, it is raining. It is what I call hot chocolate and duvet weather. I never do it of course; the duvet is too much hassle to be dragging up [...]
Flutering around the world music section in FNAC yesterday I came across this DVD by Loreena McKennitt and pondered buying it. It was a concert in the Al-hambra, south of Spain, an iconic building if ever there was one, but it was Loreena McKennitt whom sometimes I get, but mostly I don’t. As it was [...]
One of my friends posted this to his twitter today. It’s an interesting film, extraordinarily well made and will definitely bear more investigation of the related documentation and other work by JoeyL.
It relates to life for the Mentawai tribes. I’m far from expert in the area but I believe they are rainforest islands in the [...]
During the week for various reasons, including “I haven’t done it for ages”, I decided to hop off to Paris for the day yesterday. I used to do this a lot about 10-6 years ago because I had Altercations with hairdressers in Dublin where they used to butcher my hair, I used to cry and [...]