by Barbara | Oct 28, 2010 | Sunday Miscellany
Just a little note to let y’all know that I will be one of the featured writers on Sunday Miscellany this Sunday, 31st October when I shall be, appropriately enough, musing about Halloween. Regular readers will know that this is my absolute favourite time of...
by Barbara | Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
No doubt in order to balance Black Thursday, God in her infinite wisdom, decided last week to gift us with Chilean Wednesday. As I watched the events taking place, thousands of miles away in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, with the rest of the world, I too...
by Barbara | Oct 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
All of us remember the dreadful earthquake that devastated the island of Haiti early this year. I wrote about it here. Haiti has now disappeared from news reports and from the forefront of our minds, which I suppose are not very taken up with our own economic...
by Barbara | Oct 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am delighted that the Irish Times today published a piece I wrote last Thursday – Black Thursday in Ireland – when the Government finally came clean on more or less how much this bail out of the banks is going to cost us!I have been overwhelmed with the...
by Barbara | Sep 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Regular readers of my blog will know that one of my all time heroes is Michael Collins. I have written about him before here. For my overseas readers, Michael Collins was the man who gained Ireland her freedom after 800 years of occupation by Britain.Many of you will...
