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 | 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 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the suburbs, leafy and otherwise, the only remaining evidence of The Beast from the East, Storm Emma and the little brother of the Beast are mounds of dirty, icy snow languishing in dark corners of footpaths and gardens. Looking back, I can now reflect on the...
by Barbara | Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have a salutary tale to tell you and one which should be of interest to anyone who uses public transport, especially Dublin’s Luas. I am not a regular user of public transport, as I work mainly from home and my forays into the city are usually at off peak hours and...
by Barbara | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
As I write it is ten am and the temperature in Dublin is 23 degrees. Now we all know that in Ireland temperatures of 23 degrees are unusual at the best of times, but this is about the fourth day in a row that we have reached such scorching heat. And in Ireland when...
