I did a bad thing yesterday – I lied to the security forces…Oops. That’s not what we call them now, is it? The PSNI. I was in Derry doing a number of things, including checking why no copies of Tales Out of School are available in Easons and arranging for more to be shipped in […]
September, 2010
Crime and reward
I did a bad thing yesterday – I lied to the security forces…Oops. That’s not what we call them now, is it? The PSNI. I was in Derry doing a number of things, including checking why no copies of Tales Out of School are available in Easons and arranging for more to be shipped in […]
‘He’s a drunken moron, and so say all of us’. Or nearly all…
A man I knew studied Logic at university. He was pretty good at it too, got top marks, but the day he left university, he swore he’d never bother with the subject again. When I asked him why, he said ‘Because nobody else uses it’. He must have felt justified in his decision if he’s […]
‘He’s a drunken moron, and so say all of us’. Or nearly all…
A man I knew studied Logic at university. He was pretty good at it too, got top marks, but the day he left university, he swore he’d never bother with the subject again. When I asked him why, he said ‘Because nobody else uses it’. He must have felt justified in his decision if he’s […]
Look out – dangerous myth about
Our book club met last night to look at Muriel Spark’s novel Memento Mori. The book’s about a group of old people who keep being rung by a mysterious caller. The voice on the other end of the phone tells them ‘Remember you must die’, causing a range of reactions. I was probably the […]
Look out – dangerous myth about
Our book club met last night to look at Muriel Spark’s novel Memento Mori. The book’s about a group of old people who keep being rung by a mysterious caller. The voice on the other end of the phone tells them ‘Remember you must die’, causing a range of reactions. I was probably the […]
PAW? Pshaw.
This is Positive Ageing Week in Ireland. PAW for short. I’m not clear what it involves but the general message is that being old/older should be seen as a Good Thing. Spare us such steaming deposits of self-deception. Old or older age is about looking and feeling worse and worse, and being nearer to dying. […]
PAW? Pshaw.
This is Positive Ageing Week in Ireland. PAW for short. I’m not clear what it involves but the general message is that being old/older should be seen as a Good Thing. Spare us such steaming deposits of self-deception. Old or older age is about looking and feeling worse and worse, and being nearer to dying. […]
Little difference in a large room?
The launch of the deathless Tales Out of School:St Columb’s College in the 1950s took place in Lumen Christi College (the old St C’s site) last night and it was a hum-dinger of an occasion. For a start, we had a packed attendance – around 150, I’d say – in what was the old refectory […]
Little difference in a large room?
The launch of the deathless Tales Out of School:St Columb’s College in the 1950s took place in Lumen Christi College (the old St C’s site) last night and it was a hum-dinger of an occasion. For a start, we had a packed attendance – around 150, I’d say – in what was the old refectory […]