The Ghost of Christmas Present

1 pair of pink rubber gloves with fur trim
1 pink feather duster
1 camera phone
2 glasses of champagne
2 glasses of wine
1 family member extolling the virtues of cleanliness and dusting on camera
2 takes, since the first one wasn’t good enough and to be done again…

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Breathing You In

You’re in Shangri-La, you get a tightness in your chest, you have trouble breathing, you’re at 3200 metres, this could be altitude sickness, do you:
a) stay in the same place to see if you get any better?
or
b) leave the next day to go lower and see if that clears up the problem?
The next day you [...]

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Dublin By Night 5

Dublin seems to be always in a state of flux, we’re never happy with the way it is, we want to be a sexy sophisticated modern city and make small changes in the hope that the next one will be city makeover we’ve been waiting for.
This boardwalk was one of the many efforts to make [...]

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Dublin By Night 4

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Dublin By Night 3

Anna Livia, the goddess which brought life and health to the early settlers, now smooth and resplendant.

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Dublin By Night 2

Finding photos hidden in plain sight is a challenge that I’ve been finding quite exciting over the last couple of months and here, high above the gazing masses, on the second floor of a clothes shop is a window…

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Dublin By Night 1

It’s Christmas in Dublin and if you look you can find some simple yet elegant decorations….

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A Christmas Tale

Long, long ago when Kirribilli was just a boy, he had parents (he still has them too) and they wanted to bestow their Christmas traditions upon their angelic child. While they knew that getting an orange from Santa was a very exciting thing for them when they were young, they knew that a young sophisticate [...]

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The Great Unfinished

What is probably more shameful than unread books are the “perenially reading” books, books that you have started but put down for some reason and you’ve every intention of picking them up again yet there they are lying around, on the bedstand or the coffee-table, their bookmarks hanging out like a hot thirsty dog, waiting [...]

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Poor Neglected Tomes

The author pours their heart onto highly absorbent paper pages bound with the salt of their tears and it ends up gathering dust on a shelf somewhere, a poor neglected tome…
Exploring a bookshop is like walking through a hawkers convention, each volume is crying out, showing their wares, trying to catch your eye, their aim [...]

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