Are we there yet?
I know, you were expecting something like those teenage mutant things that were so popular when I was younger – no, this is much cooler. This is a robot turtle. I remember that someone had one of these at the computer club meetings we used to go to monthly with Dad. They would lay out [...]
I was going to buy myself a shiny new iPhone 4S last year. When they came out I had only just moved to the UK (wasn’t even aware that I was pregnant at that stage) and on a pay-as-you-go type of thing with O2. Apparently this means that with O2′s infinite wisdom, I am not [...]
Christmases at my Aunty Kath and Uncle Don’s place were always magical. Kath and Don are my godparents, no actual relation. They generally included a birthday celebration for me, heaps of presents (which Marcus and I got to hand out) and a magical gingerbread house. I don’t remember ever eating the gingerbread house, but I [...]
I keep a lot of the cards that I receive. They take up a lot of space, but I think it’s space that’s worth it as each is a treasured memory to me. In my Dublin apartment we had wardroes with opening doors – the backs of these were plastered with cards so that every [...]
Today’s Memory is about tying shoelaces. I’m not sure how old I was when I asked Dad to tie up my shoes that morning. I remember quite clearly Dad sitting me down to show me how and the sense of pride and achievement as the voodoo magic that stopped my shoes coming off was suddenly [...]
I stumbled across this hidden doorway with it’s sculpture of Queen Elizabeth I while in London back in 2001. At the time I remember being quite in awe of the fact that here was a sculpture of Elizabeth outside of one of her palaces – for some reason it seems to me to be exceedingly [...]
When Tegan came over to Ireland on an extended visit back in 2007, we just had to go and seek out the town I’d found out about called Kiltegan – who could possibly resist? Here we are, with me doing as the sign says. The town itself, which in Irish is known as Cill Teagáin [...]
