How are you finding things these days? What is your own situation requiring of you? Maybe you are busy working in essential services, parenting at home, caring for someone ‘cocooning’, working from home, or maybe you have recently become unemployed. The range of circumstances is endless. Many of us will […]
Health & Lifestyle
Dogs Trust, Ireland’s largest dog welfare charity, is warning dog owners their furry friends could develop separation anxiety when the current Covid-19 lockdown ends. Due to the amount of time most owners have been spending with their dogs recently, the charity fears many dogs have become too reliant on human […]
Training and physical activity is not everyone’s cup of tea and, especially these days, it can be hard to find the motivation to go outside the normal comfort zone and step into new things. Life in lockdown, with social distancing can be both lonely and boring and for some, putting […]
‘‘Your mobile phone is still inside the vehicle.’’ That’s a phrase I heard a lot in the past week. I was driving the new Audi A1 Citycarver and any time I attempted to leave the car without picking up my mobile, that’s the message I got. I have got the […]
Jacques Brennan is the author of ‘Hungry Soul – How to Cook 100 per cent Vegan’ and is a frequent collaborator with the West Cork arts and health organisation MusicAlive. He is also a guest food artist for World Mental Health Day events at 49 North Street in Skibbereen…and occasional contributor […]
by John Hosford of The Weekend Garden Centre May is a hectic month in the garden in the flower, vegetable and fruit department. Growth is taking off and new leaves have or are emerging. Gardening is a very worthwhile activity interacting with nature and the soil and as a result […]