Congratulations, we made it! We’ve finally shaken off the 1,000 days of January. Whatever the meteorologists say, the pagan in me knows that Spring starts on the 1st of February, and I relish it every year. To celebrate it this year, myself and my pal Eimear decided to take ourselves off to Kildare, not to …
January is named after the Greek God of change - Janus, a two headed figure. One face looks forward and the other one looks back. Hopefully we have wrapped up the old year, reflected on it, locked away the memories and wisdom it brought us and are now ready to face this new year. The …
I know I’m on record here saying that I’ve no truck with sport of any kind. Exercise is one thing, but competition that claims one side victors and the other losers seems unnecessarily cruel to me. However, allow me to do a full U-turn on all that in the wake of the Irish Football team's …
We share the same initials, and a healthy curiosity about other people’s lives, but I am not fit to undo the lid of her fountain pen. I’m speaking of course about the wonderful Maeve Binchy. As a slow reader, easily put off by too many pages, I was a latecomer to the party of books …
I think it’s fair to say we’ve reached the cheesed off phase of all this. We’ve put a brave face on, we’ve tried to see the positives, we’ve overextended ourselves to accommodate every emotion known to man, and now we’re all exhausted. Pandemics, in general, are hard going, pandemics in January are a tough old …
I've told you about this tree before. The one in our back garden that prepares a different programme for each season and never fails to dazzle us with its beauty. We didn't plant it, weren't even thought of, when those who owned our house before us, choose that spot to settle a sapling in place. …
I would be ashamed to admit how heavily I lean on the crutch of TV to get me through the winter months. Last August, I retook my seat on the couch to welcome 12 keen bakers into my life. From there it has been a slippery slope of hopeful business apprentices, celebrities living off rice …
Ordinary Plenty 