Truckin’
Let’s see now, what’s happening these days? Well, there’s a problem with the supply chain because there aren’t enough truck drivers available to get...
Slow train coming
Can it be true: are we to be free again to meet and eat and drink and laugh and tell stories and sing songs?...
Days of future past
It is always a strange thing to face up to a new year and write something to welcome the new in and usher the...
And so this is Christmas…
Everyone has a favourite Christmas carol or two. Some are older religious ones like “Away in a Manger” or “Joy to the World”. Others...
Yesterday once more
And so we head into the last couple of weeks of 2021. Rather like 2020, we may be glad to see the back of...
Get Back
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” These wise words were written by L.P. Hartley in his novel, The Go-Between,...
Both sides now
Have you noticed that the world is becoming a little grumpy these days? A little tetchy, prone to irritation and hitting out? The whole...
I remember you
It’s all about remembering on Remembrance Day, and phrases are used so easily: “Lest we forget”, or “We shall remember them”.These kind of sayings...
Another brick in the wall
I can remember the shivers that ran up and down my spine when I was growing up, every time the number “1984" came up...
The rocky road to Dublin
Finally, after almost two years confined to the neighbourhood, I was heading back to Dublin, my home town, and looking forward to two weeks...