I don’t think that any of us can or want to get used to this strange world that we are now living in. My social media memories threw up photos of the Jazz weekend in Cork last year and I stared at them for the longest time. Did we take it […]

Bare toes in summer – there is nothing quite like it, until there is a chill in the air; then your toes look for comfort inside big thick fleece socks. All it takes is two chilly nights in a row and fleece sock sales dramatically go up. They are as […]

It’s August and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about it. It appears that our transition into a daily life in The Twilight Zone has no intention of leaving us anytime soon. Do not allow anyone to persuade you that this is the ‘New Normal’. This is most […]

How is it July already? We are halfway through 2020 and I’m sure that many of you are breathing a sigh of relief about that. It hasn’t been all ‘bad’; we have had the opportunity to slow down, chat and to really converse with people, so Lockdown has had its […]

I am so grateful to live in the countryside and to have a vast garden to keep me hypnotised and active. There is a solace to it; void of social distancing it is easy to forget how much the world has changed, that is until I need to do an […]

Human contact is essential, we cradle our children, we kiss our partners and we greet those we care deeply about with a hug of fondness and undoubtedly many of us CANNOT hug some of the people that we love at the moment – unless they live under our roof.  Struggling […]