Something is wrong with my wife. She typically sleeps for about twelve hours, and yet a couple of hours doing anything in particular will then lead to her nodding off. A couple of thousand steps is m… (View Post)

I'm looking for a house in Ireland. There are two of us, and we share a bedroom, so we only *need* one bedroom, but generally we've been looking at houses with three bedrooms. A bedroom for… (View Post)

The blurb on my Christmas Eve book this year ended with the words: "Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?" Perhaps the only thing worse than be… (View Post)

The dominant ideology of our times is that greed is good and to beggar thy neighbour. If the present situation was not the intended result, then those pushing that ideology for many decades might per… (View Post)

There's the stench of death around Fine Gael at the moment. A large number of their sitting TDs are retiring at the next election. There was quite a chance of a heave after the local and Europea… (View Post)