Along with perfecting the perfect gin to tonic to ice to lemon ratio – here’s some of the things that have emerged as universal truths There is absolutely no friction between a twistable and a wooden floor if you step on it. The fall will be so great that as you sail up into the…
Nude on the Moon is the second in the series of nudist B movies, co-written and directed by Doris Wishman and Raymond Phelan. It’s an exploitation movie and not what I expected, quite frankly, it’s a masterpiece of kitsch and weird. It is set in a nudist civilization on the moon, which luckily, turns out…
It was as I was plodding through And Just Like That…. like the dutiful lifetime fan* that I am, something that I had been waiting for finally happened. I had something in common with Carrie. Years of lusting after the lifestyle, the shoes, the job and the apartment had finally paid off. What we had…
She finds time to sit back at the computer. Hello friends, I missed you. Much news of course in the last two years, turns out though, the pandemic had somewhat of a scorched earth policy on the writing. It is now a long and exhausted list of things. What’s one more. Ideas have been plentiful,…
On hats… Sometimes in parenting, the battle lines come at you unexpectedly. Blindsided by the co-ordinated, organised and efficient levels of effort displayed by my children, one can feel overwhelmed. My advice, stay vigilant. For it was hats that proved to be my undoing. He will not wear a hat. He will not let it…
Truth be told, I was a little excited to be picking up this book, but wild things like Gini coefficients, they really float my boat. However, I got really excited when I started reading it and realised, with huge relief that this book is written with the very purpose of getting people to pick it…
So excited we were, the tiny little snuffly bundle of wrinkles was finally here, tired, excited, trying to remember where we had put all the bits and bobs, the usual post baby craziness that ensues. The tiniest person, who has the most stuff, hidden in the most bizarre corners of the house… And then we…
Are Irish women all complete slappers? Do we have such insatiable sex drives that we cant be trusted with abortion? Would we lose the run of ourselves and just start riding around the clock, sure we’ve nothing to worry about now! Lets look at things in an international context. In Ireland, we have an abortion…
Self-care, the pointless arm rub, the need to look after yourself. The latest in the litany of ‘shit I don’t need but that you can make money off flogging me’ Filed under, money making racket by people who are in the public eye and therefore deem themselves knowledgeable about where along the line I stopped loving myself*.…
December Girl is set in between Drogheda and London at the turn of the last century. This places is squarely in the historical fiction genre, one that I write in myself, but as it turns out rarely read! The action in this book starts straight away, we were plunged straight into the action as Molly’s…
I hear it a lot, boys will be boys. I do wonder what does that mean, that boys will be boys and girls bitches and we can all rest easy in our safe self designed boxes of denial. I heard it first at the school gates as a parent reacted to their child putting both of…
Looking for a walk in the forest that was not too challenging, or to short, I came across Devil’s Glen in Wicklow. Located just outside of Ashford we first gave it a shot last October but made a mistake on the route and ended up putting a few extra kilometers on ourselves and those of us…
Hello, if you are reading this you either have a fussy eater or know someone who has a fussy eater. There is perhaps a large chance that they cannot read this as they have taken to the bed with the stress of said fussy eater. They’ll do that to you, as you scrape the umpteenth…
I love a good linky – thanks to Awfully Chipper for the inspiration! Here is a snapshot of what I am up to at the moment… Listening to – Why The Pixies of course! And in particular this track – March has me a little angsty Watching – Taboo – just finished the first series on…
Everyone’s experience is different – but here is mine. I believe in talking about mental health – and no, not celebrities trying to sell books – everyone, at a person to person level. I have two children, and have had it twice. Not great odds, but shit happens, and sometimes it happens to me. It…
The Postmodern Mammy 