Irish Water-Something Does Not Add Up-It Smells
In 2012 when Bord Gais were given the task of setting up Irish Water, it was reported in the Independent on 22nd December that they queried the Fine Gael/Labour government’s determination to initially...
View ArticleWell It Never Rains But It Pours For Irish Water.
Well it never rains but it pours for Irish Water. Ireland is blessed with having more water than anywhere else in Europe but by the time Irish Water gets their hands on it they proceed to lose over...
View ArticleThe Last Fuck Up Of 2014
This posting is short and really it is to wish all my readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR and to remind everybody of the last fuck up of 2014. Yesterday Baroness Butler Sloshed, the erstwhile chair of the...
View ArticleDry January
Well after putting on 3Kgs in December it is time to take stock, I need to lose that three plus more if only to keep my endocrinologist happy. I sold my soul to the good Doctor Lourens 18 months ago...
View ArticleTo Be Or Not To Be.
Before I begin this little but very important blog posting I would just like to register myself as a definite confirmed heterosexual of unambiguously male gender and so can only look at today’s subject...
View ArticleFriends Of St Bede’s College In Manchester (FOBCIM)
Let me introduce you to a new group, a pressure group if you like, who have resolved not to pressure anybody as longs as things are going along the right road. We are Friends of St Bede’s College in...
View ArticleWater, Water Everywhere But Not A Drop……..
With the jailing of five water protesters yesterday in the High Court in Dublin by the idiot judge Paul Gilligan for contempt of a court order forbidding anybody to step into a 20 metre no-go zone...
View ArticleHunger Striking To History
Well yesterday Dublin witnessed what could only be classed as a spontaneous reaction to the ridiculous judge Paul Gilmartin’s sentencing of the Dublin Five to prison for coming within 20 metres of a...
View ArticleAll We Can Give The Dead Is Memory
On 22nd February 2015 my wife and I flew out of Dublin Airport bound for Beauvais 50 miles north of Paris, an airport in much need of investment and used by lots of budget carriers from North Africa...
View ArticleA Victory For Right Over Wrong.
I think it was in 2011 when the now discredited Fine Gael/Labour coalition government of Ireland in trying to raise some much needed capital decided to levy a Household Charge of €100 on all properties...
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The Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 1.
After a leisurely drive up to Dublin we boarded the 4.00pm flight to Marakech, although not my first taste of Morocco, having been to Essaouira 15 months ago, it was an unnerving experience just...
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The Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 2.
Well here I am enjoying my first day in Marakech, learning new things by the minute. A lunch is put out on the table: a delicious lentil soup followed by a Chicken tagine, spicy rice and a salad of...
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The Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 3
During my third night in Marakech the dogs had been disturbed more than likely by animals but maybe they are just a tad paranoid and after little sleep I arose at 6.30am to blazing sunshine. It is...
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The Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 4.
Up at the crack of sparrow fart to begin Day 5 of this journey, it was 6.00am but now it is 7.00am on a bright, bright March morning. The sun is beating down but the breeze off the Atlas Mountains...
View ArticleThe Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 5.
Today the second day of BST was cool and bright at 7.ooam but promises to be warmer than yesterday. As I mentioned yesterday it is my father’s 97th birthday. He was born on the 31st March 1918, the...
View ArticleThe Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 6
Last night I was in bed just after night fall at 8.30pm and awake this morning well before sunrise at 7.00am. Because of the flatness of the land round here these two events are spectacular affairs...
View ArticleThe Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 7
Having left the party early, 30 minutes after sunset, I was up before sunrise and in the watery paleness before dawn I am writing this while the bull frogs sleep and the peacocks are bristling their...
View ArticleThe Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 8
It is our penultimate day in beautiful Morocco, our last evening and I aim to enjoy it. The whole team is now in the pool at 5.00pm, the temperature has increased to about 34C bearable in this dry...
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A Pregnant Pause – Part 1
It was the beginning of the third week in June in 2015, the weather had been tempestuous, bright sunny intervals, hailstone showers and high winds. You did not know what to wear with the four seasons...
View ArticleA Pregnant Pause – Part 2
Well there we were half way through Day 4 of our pregnant pause stuck in south Manchester with nothing to do but wait. As recompense we were sitting in the lap of luxury. Two daughters and spouse...
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