No matter how hard we try, there is no avoiding the month of January. At one point in time we may have hibernated around this time of the year but unfortunately this is not the case now, no matter how hard some of us try to linger in our PJs […]

Did I just blink and the merry season is almost upon us? What happened? I do believe that this year ‘time’ is making a complete fool of all of us. One-minute Christmas seemed so far away and the next it is right in front of us. For the first time […]

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 […]