Oh to be a side dish!

Gwen, Miriam and I head to lake Victoria to go kayaking for the afternoon. Our guide is Abraham and we know immediately from the glint in his eye that he’s going to be good craic. Life jackets are fitted and adjusted and we then have the very important task of deciding how we pair up in the kayaks....

Over dosing

Apparently I’m self absorbed. So Yer Man told me the other day in a text.  It could be argued that he should know, but if that’s the case, it would be a rare perceptive insight from a man who failed to know so many other things about me, like recognising when I’m down; knowing when I need to be held; or...

Gravediggers

The all-Ireland pub crawl began with a rare visit to Dublin’s north side, when Grainne, Jill and myself headed over to Kavanaghs pub, otherwise known as ‘The Gravediggers’.  Our plan is to visit each of the 15 pubs show cased in RTEs’ documentary ‘The Irish Pub’ by the...

Run-a-muck!

My enthusiasm for new ventures continues beyond my fiftieth year, with the most recent being completing run-a-muck with Mary Corcoran and Ben Hammond.  A mere 5km on relatively flat land, taking in a few ditches and streams; it’ll be great craic we thought, and after all, how hard could it be? Really...

Responsibility

  It’s hard to know where to begin isn’t it? I have many things to say about this election, and the apparent mess of a government which has resulted from it, but my main point is this: we are all, everyone of us, responsible for the Government we have, and the politicians we elected, irrespective...

2016 Targets

2015 was a year full of activity and adventure and I confess that long before the year was out, I started worrying about the year ahead, and how to I might maintain the level of excitement, innovation and new experiences throughout 2016.   I think I can say with some confidence that I am one of very...