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February 2, 2024 No Comments

This post has existed in my drafts folder since November 2019, and for four years has consisted of a title and a single line ‘Clive James died’. If this isn’t evidence of how distractable my mind is I don’t know what is. Tying it down is a continuous battle, like holding down a sheet in […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Life

2020, 2021, 2022? …

January 7, 2022 No Comments

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Covid-19 Pandemic Health Life Psychology & The Mind

Brain Fog, Freud’s “Trägheit”

April 19, 2021 No Comments

This is an informative article on that cloudy, foggy brain that I know I’ve definitely experienced over the last year of the pandemic. That dull minded feeling where you just can’t really remember what you’ve done or what you’re meant to do and yet you feel anxious and stressed at the same time. It’s both […]

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Life

Living in a Replica

January 14, 2021 No Comments

Will future generations look at the interior design of the early 21st century in appreciation? Possibly not. We do not appear to have crafted many design classics, unless slab-like corner sofas in mud-grey velvet are Eames chairs in the making. Our feature walls are gaudy; our furniture cheaply made. Scarcely anything seems to be built to […]

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Life

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2020 No Comments

Have a great midwinter festival, may everyone enjoy the festive season.

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Life People

Robert Fisk, 2 July 1946 – 30 October 2020

November 5, 2020 No Comments

From the Irish Times: Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has died after becoming unwell at his Dublin home on Friday. It is understood the journalist was admitted to St Vincent’s hospital where he died a short time later. He was 74. Fisk was one of the most highly regarded and controversial British foreign correspondents of […]

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Sean Connery, Dead at 90

November 3, 2020 No Comments

Alas, the greatest Bond actor has died. It was hard not to like Connery on screen, besides being the best Bond, I really enjoyed his performance in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He had great screen presence, even in smaller roles like King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, he’s very memorable. He’ll be […]

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Life Sounds

José Padilla, Dead at 64

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 No Comments

Sad news: José Padilla, the Spanish DJ who helped define chillout music in the 1990s, has died aged 64 from colon cancer. An update on his Facebook page reads: “It is with great sadness that we bring you the news that José passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday night here on his beloved […]

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Shopping!

Shop Online & Local – Ireland

October 27, 2020 No Comments

The IT has a list of Irish online shops to help you shop local during lockdown. Might also be interesting to see something different to the all consuming Amazon, there’s plenty other retailers out there trying to survive: “Two hundred Irish retailers for all your online Christmas shopping“

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Postcards from…

2020, 2021, 2022? …

Brain Fog, Freud’s “Trägheit”

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Living in a Replica

Merry Christmas!

Robert Fisk, 2 July 1946 – 30 October 2020

Sean Connery, Dead at 90

José Padilla, Dead at 64

Shop Online & Local – Ireland

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