by Barbara | Apr 12, 2020 | Covid
This is a story I used to tell my girls when they were small. I told a short version to my granddaughter via Whatsapp Video yesterday and she seemed to like it. So I am sharing it here for all of you who are doing trojan work keeping your children entertained during...
by Barbara | Apr 5, 2020 | Covid
I Have Nothing To Wear Featured on Sunday Miscellany on 5th April. A link will be available shortly. I have, over the years, spent many hours of my life standing in front of my wardrobe, in my dressing gown, moaning, most usually to my husband, that I have nothing to...
by Barbara | Apr 5, 2020 | Covid
THE ZEN ART OF GROCERY SHOPPING… Published in the Irish Independent 23rd March 2020 under the title, ‘How The Drugery Of The Weekly Shopping Became A Silver Lining.’ One day, fadó, fadó, my husband told me to enjoy myself, as I headed out the door to...
by Barbara | Apr 5, 2020 | Covid
Dublin Daffodils Featured on Sunday Miscellany on 15th March 2020. (It wsas also already published on this blog. You can listen back here https://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/share/radio1/21734384 March is the month of the Dublin daffodils. All over the suburbs of our...
by Barbara | Apr 5, 2020 | Covid
LIFE, PAUSED.. Published in the Irish Independent, 17th March under the title, ‘Nature’s Message Is One Even Supermarkets Understand.’ And just like that it all stopped. Life on hiatus. We have sailed into the doldrums and are becalmed. The...