Windflowers

In these odd days of a pandemic, it feels as if after watching scores of the zombie apocalyptic movies we all woke to find ourselves in o...

Lockdown felt, at times, like a rabbit hole down which one sinks with remorseless ease.  Its progress or regress could be expressed most si...

Was given a lovely quote by a friend recently.  It came at a time when illness and loss seemed to linger like Ireland’s persistent cloud cov...

Sometimes the immediate problem is so overwhelming that it does not allow a broader perspective. Scenes of thousands or tens of thousands ...

Clinical studies are a very important step in bringing any drug to the market. However, there are ethical considerations to such s...

The government has decided to re-haul our education system and as well as banning a lot of US authors from the English syllabus (what the h...

Was a little cruel.  Yesterday evening Daniel and I went for a walk along the sea front towards St Jullian’s Bay from Sliema.  Feeling ...

Went for a long walk along Manoel Island in Malta and inspected the massive super yachts moored there.  As you walk along the peer the absol...

Last night I was ironing and discovered a note of money in a pair of trousers, not mine, but one of my son's.  I remember my mother sayi...