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Happy Birthday

Today is my mam’s birthday. I love this photo of her.

Taken 35 odd years ago, when I guess I was nearly 6 and she was almost 28. I am the eldest of 7 kids and there’s only 10 years between myself and my youngest brother. Needless to say, it was always loud and busy in [...]

One for the Girl Geeks

via Make Magazine:
This jewellery made me smile this afternoon.

Nicholas and Felice design and produce these interesting geeky and nerdy pieces using sterling silver, dies, a 20 ton hydraulic press and a CNC mill.
It brought me back to 20 odd years ago. To doing a project on CNC machining on a Kitamura in the basement of [...]

Brilliant Boostapak

I love great design that solves a problem. This Boostapak, made by the same people who brought us Trunki, seems to tick both these boxes.

As a parent of 5 kids that has travelled by air abroad on holidays, I have had to deal with the expense and hassle on arrival of hiring extra booster seats [...]

Keep on running

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from my cousin Sinéad wondering whether I would be interested in running the Flora women’s mini marathon with her and a group of cousins and pals as part of the 1 in 1000 campaign for cystic fibrosis. Its a great cause and just the incentive I [...]

Irish Blog Awards 2010

Hurrah, its that time of the year again. The Irish Blog Awards are taking place in Galway on March 27th. The longlists of nominations in each category have just been announced. There are a huge number of interesting, informative and entertaining blogs on these lists. A brilliant range with something for everyone. Get thee over [...]

5 minute Interview with Richard Dawkins

via Tommy: A 5 minute interview with Richard Dawkins.

Despite being raised a Catholic, I have never been convinced by the whole bible tale and religious fundamentalist beliefs in anything just scare me. Up until now, despite agreeing with much of what Richard Dawkins has to say, I really disliked the way he said it. His [...]

Where would you go?

Paul’s mention of of wine tours in his blogpost and Ryanair commencing direct flights from Cork to Bordeaux recently got me thinking.  Which wine regions are on my wishlist to visit and tour?

photo credit: mescon
Gaining an interest in wine mainly in my 30s which coincided with my pregnancy, infant and young children years, hasn’t [...]

Love it, love it, love it

via @conoro:

Lego Mindstorms NXT, Nokia N95 mobile phone and a 4×4×4 Rubik’s cube to solve. Brilliant.
How cool a project would something similar to this have been in school or college?

Outstanding Organ Donation Documentary

The Gift of Life, TV3

This is by far the best television documentary series that I’ve seen in ages. It follows 14 different people from the 600 or so who are awaiting organ transplants in Ireland. In the first episode a lady awaiting and eventually receiving a heart transplant, a spouse to spouse kidney transplant, a [...]

Mince Pie Magic

One of the many reasons why my mother in law, Rose, rocks. Top notch mince pies. Tastastic.

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