Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Getting ready for the New Year

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In many ways this Christmas sticks in your mind when disasters are spoken off.  The Mayan calendar ending  spanned a huge range of doo...
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Saturday, 15 December 2012

My Criminal Childhood with Cousins

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My cousins and I were experts at fiddling the machines at the amusement arcade.  In Ireland we have cousins the way other countries ha...
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One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down darjeeling

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Was invited out to tea by an eighty three year old Irish woman on Malta, yesterday.  We’d never met before.  I had been at a restaurant an...
Thursday, 13 December 2012

Rich Tit Bits

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I am reading a wonderful book at present.  Entitled, “the best American magazine writing” 2011 it contains wonderful gems worth dige...
Monday, 10 December 2012

It is astonishing what the human being can achieve

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There are times when you begin to doubt yourself.  To see flaws, imperfections in all aspects of your persona.  Then cracks appear which e...
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Friday, 7 December 2012

Humanity seems really weary for want of a better pattern of life to which to aspire.

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My father was headmaster of a school in a small village in Northern Ireland high in the Sperrin mountains.  You learn a lot from your ...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

The Walk – A pictorial tale of desire and longing

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Walked around San Anton gardens (in Malta) and then from Valletta to Sliema capturing some of my favourite things on the way. A beauti...
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