Sometimes I despair of the American people – their latest lunacy shows up in nominating the likes of Christine O’Donnell as Republican candidates for their mid-term elections, not to mention several other Tea Party loopers. Not content with one Sarah Palin, they’ve now cloned what looks like and sounds like a second. Yes, it’s good […]
Author Jude Collins
What’s that smell?
They say if you want to sell your house, you should bake bread half an hour before the prospective buyers arrive. Brewing some coffee is good too but baking bread is best – the smell does something to people. As I write this, I can see our back lawn through my window and it’s in […]
What’s that smell?
They say if you want to sell your house, you should bake bread half an hour before the prospective buyers arrive. Brewing some coffee is good too but baking bread is best – the smell does something to people. As I write this, I can see our back lawn through my window and it’s in […]
Still crazy after all these years
There’s a line in Macbeth where the sleep-walking Lady Macbeth keeps remembering the killing of King Duncan and cries out ‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?’ The Pope’s visit to Britain has had a similar effect. A number of frenzied attacks have been launched against him […]
Still crazy after all these years
There’s a line in Macbeth where the sleep-walking Lady Macbeth keeps remembering the killing of King Duncan and cries out ‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?’ The Pope’s visit to Britain has had a similar effect. A number of frenzied attacks have been launched against him […]
Methinks the gentlemen doth protest too much
I got verbally mugged yesterday. By three men of the cloth. Let me tell you about it. UTV have a programme called ‘The Issue’ , hosted by Jim Dougal. This week they were discussing the Pope’s visit to Britain and I was invited to be in the audience at the Navan Centre outside Armagh. So […]
Methinks the gentlemen doth protest too much
I got verbally mugged yesterday. By three men of the cloth. Let me tell you about it. UTV have a programme called ‘The Issue’ , hosted by Jim Dougal. This week they were discussing the Pope’s visit to Britain and I was invited to be in the audience at the Navan Centre outside Armagh. So […]
Waterside Half-Marathon: pain and after
As I was saying before Mr Paisley interrupted…I ran the Derry Waterside Half-Marathon yesterday. No, try again. I competed. No. I took part. That’s it. I took part in the Derry Waterside Half-Marathon yesterday. They say they had 1600 entrants but just 900 names are listed on the results board for the race. Still, a […]
Waterside Half-Marathon: pain and after
As I was saying before Mr Paisley interrupted…I ran the Derry Waterside Half-Marathon yesterday. No, try again. I competed. No. I took part. That’s it. I took part in the Derry Waterside Half-Marathon yesterday. They say they had 1600 entrants but just 900 names are listed on the results board for the race. Still, a […]
Mr Paisley and the Pope
I got a phone call today (just after running a half-marathon in Derry’s Waterside, about which more – maybe – anon), asking me to participate in a discussion tomorrow morning on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan Show. The topic? The Free Presbyterians’ planned protest against the Pope visiting Scotland this week. Where to start? Maybe […]