Archive for the ‘Off Topic’ Category
Don’t stop believin’
This is the first year that my little boy ‘gets’ Christmas, if you know what I mean.
Sweet little lies
Do you remember when you were young and had no sense? Can you pinpoint when that changed – when you began to take life ‘seriously’? Or are you still a kid at heart?
Pink Stinks?
I’ve written previously about how much my two year old son enjoys mimicking me doing household chores.
Taste of things to come
I’ve often heard men say (and women agree) that they couldn’t be trusted to do the shopping
To jab or not to jab
Well, I bit the bullet last week (and I sincerely hope I’m only speaking metaphorically here) and got the swine flu jab.
Sweet comforts
Well, I took a stroll down Memory Lane last Saturday night, when I brought my little boy out ‘trick or treating’ (or, as they used to say in my day, ‘we went around for Halloween’). And what an eye-opener it was.
Okay, so I’d had a bit of an inkling that things had changed somewhat when [...]
Pint of liquid courage
Have you ever heard yourself say: “I just need one drink, to calm my nerves”?
The art of suggestion
Now that my toddler is listening and picking up on every word he hears – particularly the bad ones – I’ve recently had to install a situation-sensitive filter between my brain and my mouth.
‘Learning to drive at night made me a cautious and responsible driver’
Well I was certainly relieved to hear that the Road Safety Authority has seen sense and scrapped their plans to impose a night-time curfew for learner drivers from 10pm to 6am.
Back in time
I’d say you’re sick of reading that the 1980s are back in Ireland


