The Search

An interesting side-effect of having a blog is tracing how people come to be reading you. Looking at the type of google searches that find this little corner of the internet, it’s bizarre what some of the search terms.
For instance, being a mathematician I wrote semi-humourus piece called Sexy Mathematicians, thinking that no-one else would [...]

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Exhibition – part 2

Who would have thought that photos left out in the sun would warp a little?
That the blue tack sticking the boards to the would warm up and soften, letting the boards fall off from time to time?
That the sun would be so strong that after two days of display, the parts of the boards [...]

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Big Decisions

For days now photos have been strewn across tables, couches, there was hardly any walkable space on the floor, not quite a place to invite people into and not surprisingly, no-one was invited.
Instead it was a realm of indecision thinly guised as creativity. It seems that the easy part was the selection of the photos, [...]

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Phaic Tan

Welcome to the land of Phaic Tan where cultural diversity and racial tolerance is all about, with Malays, Chinese, Thai, Laotians, Khmer and Burmans living side by side in detention camps while on the other side of the razor wire the native Phaic Tanese go about their business.
Of course Phaic Tan is not a country [...]

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Hairy Tales

Have you ever looked in the mirror and seen a stranger? The face you know, the one that’s been moulded by the years, suddenly becomes an alien being, something shocking to see looking back at you?
For days after the shave, I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror, I didn’t recognize the face I saw, [...]

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Waiting

It was there, high above the forest that we stood, waiting.
Waiting for the day to begin, waiting for the heavens to give us all that we needed, so we stood, waiting…
Standing on the top of the Tree Tower, we, all of us, were ready. Boy scouts to the core, we were prepared for anything [...]

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Shorn

Once upon a time I had long luxurious flowing hair, so long that I could easily pull it into a pony-tail, well when I say easily there was a lot of scraping of the brush and gathering up of unruly hair and when I say pony-tail it wasn’t any more that 2 inches long but [...]

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Save a Prayer

Cast your mind back in time, back to the eighties, back to a band named after a character in the film Barbarella, think of their song, “Save a Prayer”, now picture the video for the song….
Have you got the video playing in your head? Watching the video recently, it’s like watching a commercial sponsored [...]

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Holes

A few years I use to lead a lot of hikes over the Wicklow mountains, and there was this one hike…..
It’s one of my favourites because it’s a straight ridge walk, you start off in the lovely little village of Enniskerry, there’s a bit of a long road walk before you get to the mountain [...]

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Grapes and Lychees

For many a year there was this run-down dodgy-looking Indian restaurant on the street, called one of the usual stereotypical names, The Raj, The Something Palace, instantly forgettable, never went, never wanted to.
A few months ago when walking up the street I noticed something different, the Indian restaurant was gone, instead there was a shiny [...]

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