I shouldn’t be revealing this but if I put it out there, I may be forced into action through guilt and shame.

I want to lose five kilos. Continue reading It’s almost mankini season →

The Point Depot is located fairly close to my house. It is a big concert arena – an old train depot that served Dublin port that has been modernised into a hi-tech shed which has retained some of its original stone features. I am pretty certain that the aluminium roof did not feature on the original design for the building. Continue reading The port →

As anticipated I slept 10 hours last night.
However as I did not hit the sack until 1am, it meant that I did not greet the new day until 11am this morning.

No harm done however – I had absolutely zero plans made for this day of leisure, and considering how grim I have been feeling over the past couple of days I thought that lolling about watching daytime television would be a worthwhile and rewarding endeavour. Continue reading Hand-holders of the world unite →

Groooooggghhh!!

That’s how I am feeling. Continue reading Suffering →

I am in the land of the unwell. I am not talking about my physical location – vibrant, sexy Limerick – which by all accounts is as healthy a region as any other – although it is difficult to get a car insurance quote in Limerick apparently because of an elevated risk of car theft. I never knew this.  Continue reading Man-flu →

I am sitting in my mother’s living room, drinking a Miller beer., watching the Late Late Show. Continue reading I am sitting, doing nothing. →

So it has been almost 7 months since I returned to the motherland

After 15 generally happy years in Amsterdam I decided early last year that it was time to hang up my wandering boots and make a go of living in Ireland.

I am not sure if I have written about this on the blog before. No doubt I have and I am at the point in this blogging lark where I am starting to repeat myself. Continue reading The Clash asked all the right questions →

I live in a very schizophrenic part of Dublin.

In the sense that it is northside inner city, meaning that it is a place of historic and cultural significance in Irish history, and also it is now the financial hub of the Irish banking industry. Continue reading My beautiful neighbourhood →