Class, please settle down and take out your copy of Soundings. It’s time to read the most wise and timely poem of the great Patrick Kavanagh. If ever words were needed to be heard throughout the globe I suggest these are they. ‘Through a chink too wide, there comes in no wonder’, or as my …
I met a middle-aged woman the other day who told me she loves the magic of Christmas. I looked at her in wide-eyed disbelief thinking she’s either yanking my chain or she’s the kind who takes the family to Disneyland. ‘It’s fabulous’ she said, ‘it’s like going to Disneyland’. I tried really hard not to …
Do you know those scratch-off world maps people use to log their travels and see what’s left to explore? Well, I think there’s a market in making them up for people’s individual 5K radius. I’m pretty sure I’m running out of road, or un-walked roads at this stage. I’ve traveled north, south, east and west, …
Happy New Year to you all. I know what you've been thinking, that I've been very generous to myself with my holiday leave this year. Well, let me tell you, it's been all go here at Ordinary Plenty Headquarters. To my mind the season isn't over until all the confectionery and cheese mountains have been …
Most years we have one big blitz day where we put up all the Christmas decorations. The tree, the crib, funk up the mantelpiece and spread all the tathera into its annual home. This year I'm doing it more haphazardly. One day I'll scatter a few candles around the place, next I take a lucky …
We are now entering a state of emergency, everyone is advised to be hyper-vigilant from here on in. Yes, we have begun the annual free fall into the season of insanity. Boys and girls, can you feel it, the magical winds of Christmas blowing our way? No of course you can't, that's because it's impossible …
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