Author Harry McAvinchey

“These eggs are beautiful”, said the wife. I’d just unpacked a round dozen free-range eggs that I’d espied in the market while looking for some herbs to plant out . They’d been safely packed into two blotting- paperish, soft cardboard boxes which we all , naturally enough,have always called “egg-boxes”. Those flimsy, yet sturdy-enough containers […]

I’ve had it up to here! “It’s the BIGGEST SHOW IN THE COUNTRY!” the radio fairly bellows out, propagandising, as it does ,the lunacy that either Belfast or possibly Norneverland is a real country. Okay , it’s Radio Ulster banging its chest while promoting the Nolan Show in its jingling trailer..Maybe they want to hit […]

At least it has made Norneverland ‘s politics momentarily interesting. This business about the Ulster Unionist Party going into opposition with the latent hanging notion that their leader, TV Mike ‘s seemingly desperate act to stay relevant , might actually force both the SDLP and Alliance to break the logjam and join an Opposition with […]

The birds are going crackers in that bush behind the shed .Such a piece!! Bedlam! The racket stirred up sounded like the kind of row a fox would invoke in a chicken coop with all the clamour, botheration and flying feathers that might entail. When I investigated it was simply two wee birds, neither of […]

If I had a hero , Sir David Attenborough might fit the bill. It certainly wouldn’t be a politician.David Attenborough has been the voice of reason for the better part of his ninety years on earth and in that time he has helped expand our knowledge of the world as it really is ,in front […]

Yep….like the elephants marching in the old Disney “Jungle Book” cartoon…… Sometimes there is very little you can do but feel despair.The radio’s on and I’ve finished painting the hall. What else would you do on a dreary May day like this than roll on some of that greyish paint to match the weather outside […]

I see Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn fein has got himself into some bother and was forced to make his apologies . Apparently he was watching the Tarantino film “Django Unchained “and it occurred to him to equate the lot of the negro slaves with the history of he Irish and their relationship with […]

Before the month is out I could almost guarantee that everyone will have something to say about the new crime thriller about to be aired on television. It’s not a new Scandi-noir with a jumper-wearing heroine ,which were all the rage last month, nor is it the new series of the delightfully bloodthirsty Game of […]

The BIG headline in the local press reads : “HUGE INEQUALITY CRISIS FOR PROTESTANT PUPILS…” It’s finally filtered down to the local politicians and the parochial press too ,that there is something somewhat imbalanced in the numbers of Protestants and Catholics doing well in higher education .We’ve already heard about this in relation to inner […]

        Remember Peter Robinson, anyone? He was First Minister of Norneverland only a few months ago, providing much mirth to satirists with his supposedly Machiavellian machinations and madcap schemes of Hokey Cokey Pokey politics and the like. He was a man who enjoyed republicplaying daft games and let’s face it , politics […]