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...
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 | Jun 27, 2013 | Covid, How to stay sane, Uncategorized
Being a full time ‘stay at home’ parent (why doesn’t someone come up with a better job description), is not for the faint hearted. It is a job for which there is no training and most of us just jump in at the deep end. But it strikes me that in the...
