Fine Times

It’s been avery chilled city trip, filled with walks, chatting and eating.
There is the occasional train trip thrown in for good-measure. Sitting on the train there isn’t too much to look at, just the people and the signs on the wall.
Two more signs to add to your collection:
No Smoking – Fine: $1000
No Flammable Liquids or [...]

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Singaling

Blue skies and heat, it’s difficult to imagine how dark and dreary it still over there in Europe. Still trying to iron out the jetlag but within 24 hours of arriving in the sun, I’m already feeling like a different person, the person that I want to be.
Apparently all it takes is no work and [...]

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Winter Heat

Where did I used to get all my energy? The calendar rolls into 2009 and I’m tired. I get up, go to work, come home and go to bed. That’s what a lot of days are like, sometimes I feel like I’m missing something. Maybe that’s part of the reason I cling to things like [...]

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Baby Food

I seem to always find myself in the position in Toastmasters where I either have a long quiet period where I don’t speak or else I have a whole bunch of speeches all at once. This is one of the latter…
Between now and the 20th Feb I have to write and deliver three speeches.
Well, I [...]

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Gathering wood

Last Friday evening was a different type of Toastmasters, different because I was the toastmaster of the evening, I was in charge.
It’s a different experience organising an entire meeting instead of merely being a particpant. I had to get people to speak, people to evaluate and others to fill the various other support roles. I [...]

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Eight Days of Christmas

Sun 21st December
It’s odd being back in Dublin, doesn’t feel quite real…
Mon 22nd December
Where did all those queues come from? Don’t these people know that we’re in the middle of a financial crisis?
Tues 23rd December
My offer to help out over Christmas was more of a vague gesture, I wasn’t expecting to be out painting the [...]

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December Books

What with two speeches and a busy Christmas, reading took a bit of back seat and there was nothing at all that excited me but January holds great promise….
John Banville is a powerful writer and now he’s turned his talents to crime, writing as Benjamin Black he’s already pumped out three books and there’s probably [...]

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