The Gates of Hell
All I want is a gate that will open and close. Is that too much to ask of life? It would be nice to have one that detects riff-raff and keeps ’em out but on the other hand I refuse … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: September 2018
The Great Conundrum
Grandson the Younger called in the other afternoon. He had a project to do about family trees and wanted a bit of help. I brought him out to the gardens and pointed out the tree that my sister had planted … Continue reading →
Edukashun
I have been doing a drop of thinking. Like most kids, I went to school in my younger years. My first school was a convent run by very scary nuns. Fortunately that only lasted a couple of years, but the … Continue reading →
That is the wrong answer
Listen, you lot over in the UK. Will you ever stop whinging and whining about this Brexit thing. I am sick and tired of hearing about it. I am tired of hearing about backstops, hard exits and soft exits. I … Continue reading →
Blame the kid next door
I think I am entitled to give myself a wee pat on the back. As some of you know, I look after quite a few webbing sites. Some of them are mine [such as this one], some I host and … Continue reading →
Not welcome at the inn
There is an item in today’s Journal ‘They’re dropping like flies’: Why Cork pubs have been closing in droves For some reason that I cannot fathom, there is no mention of the smoking ban. There appears to be an attitude … Continue reading →
They never warned me
There was a big fuss during the week about a storm. Naturally they had to give it a name [Amy or Ava or something] and give it a colour code. There were dire warnings about how we would all be … Continue reading →
A meeting with His Holiness
So Pope Francis had a meeting with Saint Bono [patron saint of egotists]. So fucking what? Bono saw ‘pain’ on pope’s face over abuse scandals. No, Bono. That was the expression of bewilderment brought about by tedious ramblings and a … Continue reading →
The gender debate gets serious
In the course of my travels yesterday I came across a little spat. At first I thought someone had posted a wind-up and the whole thing was a bit of a laugh. But then I realised they were serious. Yes … Continue reading →
Shaming the Irish again
Once again we have to be “world leaders”. I’m not sure what this fascination is with “leading the world”. It is to our eternal shame that we were the first to introduce a nationwide smoking ban and now we are … Continue reading →
