by Barbara | Apr 5, 2020 | Covid
A WORLD GONE MAD… Published in the Irish Independent 7th March 2020 under the title “Virus Madness Enough To Make Us All Run Away And Hide.” Back in the late 1970s, long before social media, there was a story that did the rounds about a family in...
by Barbara | Mar 24, 2020 | Covid, Daffodils, Pandemic
This is the text of a my piece which was broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany on 15th March last. You can also listen back here March is the month of the Dublin daffodils. All over the suburbs of our capital city, in gardens, on grass verges, on...
by Barbara | Mar 20, 2020 | Sunday Miscellany
(Broadcast on Sunday Miscellany RTE RADIO 1 January 2011) The recent December snowfall, which caused such travel chaos, also brought with it some unexpected and beautiful gifts, which was very appropriate in the run up to Christmas. The uncommon arrival of such deep...
by Barbara | Aug 11, 2019 | Animals, Cats
Ernest Hemingway said that “a cat has absolute emotional honesty; human beings, for one reason or another may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” And as someone who has lived with cats all her life, I think our Ernest is right. But I never really thought that...
by Barbara | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
So, I know I might be a bit premature on this, but the signs so far aren’t great for a good summer and I am beginning to panic. I have checked my social media posts from last year and by May the weather was already settling into a nice warm pattern which as we all...
