I don’t have a great relationship with Sellotape. I know that it is theoretically a useful product…but if I use it to wrap Christmas presents…that festive paper is usually pretty shiny and slithery anyway….the...
Went to see Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ the other day. It was an afternoon showing. Snuck into the cinema after the lights had gone down with a very large sandwich I’d just purchased....
Found myself watching the X Factor last weekend. There, I’ve admitted it. At least yesterday evening I only watched part of it…was more interested in dear Stephen Fry’s programme ‘Planet Word’. I gave myself...
‘A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.’ Maya Angelou I really really enjoyed watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on the telly the other...
The Porcelain Unicorn is a BEAUTIFUL prize-winning three minute film and a fabulous example of concise effective storytelling. It was mentioned in The Irish Times recently. Well worth a look. http://url.ie/d05w Warm wishes, Grace
My name is Honey Morenzo and I’ve been asked to occasionally contribute to this website. I’m not getting paid for my contributions but I hope that it will give me some practice in writing...
My childhood trips to the local metropolis of Limerick were tinged with adventure. Even getting there felt slightly precarious because my father was a nervous driver and the journey started out with a prayer....
‘I am a forty eight year old woman who loves books and I have read zillions in my life. My husband has never heard me laugh out loud as much or cried as I...
Many summers ago I watched Wimbledon with a goat. I was on a camping holiday in Cornwall. The rustic place where we were staying had various animals wandering around the place…including the outhouse type...
According to a survey conducted by the DIY chain B&Q more than a quarter of men questioned confessed to using their garden shed as a refuge, and a third admitted to visiting it more...
The old rambling rectory in which I spent much of my childhood had a large AGA cooker in the kitchen. The kitchen was always warm and cosy because of it and its presence was...
It seems that Rowling might never have written her fabulous Harry Potter books if she had been more successful early on in life. She got enough points to go to university and in a...
‘I’d hate to be a royal,’ a woman is announcing to a friend in the seat in front of me. She makes it sound as if being a royal were once, somehow, an option....
Have already eaten a good part of one Easter egg. It is a 70% cocoa solids one so could almost be described as virtuous…dark chocolate just doesn’t taste as naughty as Maltesers. (Have a...
I went for a lovely beachside walk in Greystones with some friends on Saturday. The ocean was…well just very pretty and very blue with picturesque and frothy white waves greeting the shore and that...
