There is a great stretch in the evenings now. Has been for weeks. Since January, really. It’s great to see. I used to dread the tedium and monotony of cutting the grass at home around the house. Now I am looking forward to it. Maybe it’s a sign of aging. Perhaps it has to do… Continue reading Great stretch in the evenings
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Christmas with Covid brought the best Christmas gift I have ever received
4.45 pm on Christmas Eve. We are all gathered in the kitchen. We are staring fixedly, anxiously at the Antigen test card. I think it’s called a lateral flow test. I have set the timer on my mobile phone for 15 minutes. I am waiting. But I’m not cool. I’m sneaking glances at the card… Continue reading Christmas with Covid brought the best Christmas gift I have ever received
A blow out day in Dublin
On a few days every year myself and herself get the bus-either Kearns or Bus Eireann-from Moyvalley and head to Dublin. This trip has become an annual thing having first started out, when we were younger, as a pub crawl. Now, we are not quite up to requirements of the full blown pub crawl but… Continue reading A blow out day in Dublin
Choose your pain
Choose your pain. You have a choice as to what type of pain you choose, but you do have a choice. And you must choose, even if you don’t recognise that you are making a choice every day. The choice is between doing now the difficult, dirty, disciplined, demanding work that matters, the work that… Continue reading Choose your pain
Advice for whingers
Whingers. This is a group of individuals that I find most tedious, boring, nauseating, and downright annoying. And with the growth of social media they now have bigger loudspeakers and a tremendous range of opportunities to share their destructive, nihilistic worldview on the rest of us. No matter what the issue, no matter how things… Continue reading Advice for whingers
Taking pleasure in the birds
I get a great deal of simple pleasure from the little birds around our house. I have a couple of small bird feeders, one at the back of the house just outside the living room. And one at the front which I can observe from the kitchen window. I have it hanging off the branch… Continue reading Taking pleasure in the birds
Kildare togs now becoming a fashion item?
I came across a tweet on Twitter yesterday evening showing the young Irish and Kildare actor, Paul Mescal, posing, wearing what was supposed to be a sweater with a price tag of some ridiculous sum like $10,000 and a pair of Kildare GAA football shorts (previously known and loved as “togs”). I say “togs” because… Continue reading Kildare togs now becoming a fashion item?
Why I hope Trump recovers
I hope Trump recovers and contests the US presidential election. Not because I like the man but because I hate him and what Trumpism stands for. And I want to see Americans rejecting him and his narcissism, bigotry, racism, lying, tax evasion, sexual deviancy, braggadocio, vanity, cheating. This is a man who has boasted about… Continue reading Why I hope Trump recovers
Measuring Out My Life in Championships-The Appalling Vista of No GAA Championships in 2020
J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured out his life in coffee spoons. I have measured out mine in championships. Gaelic football and hurling championships, to be specific. And the most appalling vista is looming large in my mind-that is, that there will be no championship this year as a consequence of the coronavirus/covid-19 catastrophe. I… Continue reading Measuring Out My Life in Championships-The Appalling Vista of No GAA Championships in 2020
My Old Leather “Briefcase”-Appearances Do Matter
I have this old, brown leather case or document bag. Calling it a briefcase would probably be stretching the definition of briefcase at this point in its life, but it probably started out life once as a briefcase. When I qualified as a solicitor a few years ago I started out trying to get clients-criminal… Continue reading My Old Leather “Briefcase”-Appearances Do Matter