by Barbara | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Finally, we have arrived at the New Year. I love the fresh feeling and hope that the dawn of a new year brings and this year we also mark a new decade. It is a time for looking forward. It is time to stop wasting time with regrets or worrying about the year that has...
by Barbara | Dec 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Christmas is a time for memories. I was very lucky to grow up in a reasonably normal home where we had a fairly traditional Christmas. Christmas was a far more modest event back then. Our decorations were of the paper variety and were strung from the four corners of...
by Barbara | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Finally we have something different to talk about! And to think about.Snow.Tons of it.Snow like I am not sure I have ever seen before in Dublin and I am very old!This morning as I write this, there is a white out here in Cabinteely. My world has been gifted a thick...
by Barbara | Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
7 Billion, 24 billion, 35 billion….Bail Out,ECB,Bond Markets,Ollie Rehn,Front loaded adjustments,Budget deficit,Blah Blah Blah,Gobbeldy gookIt streams from my radio.It jumps from the pages of my newspapers.It scares me to death and yet it is...
by Barbara | Oct 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
The 26th of June 1963 was my mothers 28th birthday. On that evening she stood in the front garden of our house on the Swords Road in Santry with her 18 month old daughter in her arms and together they watched as one of the most glamorous and charismatic leaders the...
