Poor oul’ Valentinus

In the midst of all the build up, the cards, the red paper hearts and pink and red balloons appearing in shop windows country-wide, I got to thinking about the fact that The Granny had brought me to visit St. Valentine once, many years ago. I thought given the week that’s in it, it was [...]

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Please help me go to the Halloween party!

Halloween parties are looming large on the horizon and I have no costumes. At this stage, something homemade and inventive would be much preferable to a shop bought yoke. I’m really of the opinion that Halloween is supposed to be scary or at the very least inventive so all those ladies who take the opportunity [...]

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Grumble grumble

I walked the length and breadth of Dublin city yesterday. For two bloody hours I searched for somewhere that I could have a desk, a seat and a nearby socket to plug in my laptop. It didn’t even need to have wifi cos I had a dongle with me. “Simple”, I thought, “I’ll get a [...]

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Where in the world?

I took this photo on 25 September last. I wish I’d taken the time to get out my camera instead of using my phone camera but the view is still imprinted on my mind…the HD version, not this one You’d never guess it was taken in the middle of St. Stephens Green in Dublin City [...]

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The Blanch at the Absolut Fringe Festival

Being from ‘De Blanch’ as it is affectionately known, I was either going to love or hate a show based on the ‘loveliness’ of the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and it’s frequenters. When I first saw Darraghs video from the launch of the Fringe Festival I thought this was one show I had to see. If [...]

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