The final rehearsal for the haunted-boat play was last night. I hosted it in my flat – which made sense. I don’t have the burden of a housemate, whose feelings I have to take into consideration when I wish to be expressive. If I feel like wandering around the house at 4am in my y-fronts, drinking milk straight from the carton, well it’s no-one’s concern apart from my own. The play seems to be almost ready. I won’t tempt fate by saying any more. Continue reading ‘There is something in my house, my house It’s just a ghost of the long, long dead affair’
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I’m a nervous wreck
I am having a stressful morning. Although I suspect that I am over-reacting, and being needlessly melodramatic. Continue reading I’m a nervous wreck
Wicklow way
Since my return to my native land, I have been making valiant efforts to see places and things that had hitherto escaped my attention. I am being a tourist at home. While it is not always possible I endeavour to see something new on a weekly basis. The more I see, the more I understand that it will be impossible to see it all. There are so many beautiful places in this country. I realise that I am only scratching the surface. Never mind – I am enjoying the journey – there is no final destination. Continue reading Wicklow way
Dry buns
When you are young and sexy and urban, there is a tendency to socialise after work, with your colleagues. Even if you are working in a suburban industrial estate, you migrate towards like-minded people of around the same age. Continue reading Dry buns
My kingdom for a cat
I am contemplating some feline companionship in my life.
Continue reading My kingdom for a cat
Subtle workplace bullying
I never discuss my work on this blog. Rarely do I even mention it – my journeys on the bus each morning notwithstanding. For a number of reasons. Firstly my job is fairly mundane – it pays the bills and is occasionally engaging. But it’s a means to an end, rather than the end itself. I try to keep it as interesting as I can, without surrendering to the corporate gobbledy-gook that seems to be a characteristic of such places. I suspect that people will have limited interest in the minutiae of my scintillating worklife,. Continue reading Subtle workplace bullying
Jam packed with productivity.
It’s been a hectic weekend, which has been productive and positive. In the main. Continue reading Jam packed with productivity.
Feral Dublin
In Limerick there is a local volunteer group / charity called ‘Limerick Feral Cats’. It is a group that looks after the welfare of feral cats in the Limerick area. It engages in a policy of TNR – Trap, Neuter, Return – to safeguard the lives and health of these vulnerable animals. Continue reading Feral Dublin
Hello Pilgrim
After the driving lesson from the bowels of hell last night, I met a friend for some frosted beverages in a local inn. He commiserated at my tale of woe. Who knew that driving in the dark is so terrifying? I certainly didn’t.
Continue reading Hello Pilgrim
Theatre death-match: ‘Signatories’ versus ‘Eirebrushed’
The Olympia Theatre on Dame Street is currently hosting a play called ‘Signatories’. A show, written by eight Irish authors, comprising eight separate segments – with seven of them focusing on the signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, and one on Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who delivered the rebels’ surrender at the failed 1916 Easter Rising. Continue reading Theatre death-match: ‘Signatories’ versus ‘Eirebrushed’
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