Posted in philosophy, Personal on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a blog where important things are discussed, but now and again the personal intervenes when I insist on doing my ‘kids say the darnedest things’ posts. One such is about to follow (apologies in advance if you were looking for a serious discussion).
With the weather being fine this weekend I took myself […]
Posted in Personal on Aug 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
So another milestone has gone by. I brought our eldest bairn to primary school for the first time this morning, and she was very excited.
Wearing her new Charlie and Lola T-Shirt especially for the occasion we made the short trip with her up on the little saddle on my cross bar as I walked […]
Posted in Personal on Jun 26th, 2007 11 Comments »
The other day my four year old daughter surprised us when she pointed out a winged creature in a Scooby Doo screen saver on our PC and said ‘look, a terradactyl. Sure enough, there was a Scooby Doo style ‘scary monster’ much like a terradactyl, although one suffused with green phosphorescence, for some reason.
‘What’s […]
Posted in Personal, politics/Ireland on May 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
Half asleep yesterday morning, an item on French radio caught my ear - it was a piece of schadenfreude concerning the latest twist in the case of Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank. Mr Wolfowitz is in the process of being caught by the proverbial knackers on account of his blatant nepotism towards his […]
Posted in Personal on May 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Hugh Green has an interesting post about the current obsession with dates. I was going to add a comment but I ended up writing this instead. He says:
“I have a problem with dates. When I read history, I rarely remember the dates mentioned. In fact, I go out of my way not to remember them. […]
Posted in Personal on Jan 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve noticed recently that I tend to repeat certain words in posts. It’s very annoying but I usually never bother to go back to fix the problem mainly because I’m too lazy to think of an alternative.
In one recent post I had a fondness for the word ‘circumlocutory’, using it twice unnecessarily.
Why?
Anyway, […]
Posted in Personal on Dec 6th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not given to personal reminiscences on this blog but this amused me this morning. The personalities of your children only develop slowly as they grow and being so close to your kids you often don’t notice a particular trait until it suddenly, dramatically comes to fore.
So this morning, while walking my little girl to […]
Posted in contrition, Came so far for beauty on Nov 9th, 2006 34 Comments »
My use of the phrase ‘ignorant critic’ in the November Spawned Mary piece has generated a good deal of comment over the last two days. Firstly when Damien reacted to it by saying that “if you give an opinion about a concert and it doesn’t fit with the views of others then you are ignorantâ€. […]