You Can’t Be Serious – ‘Too sweet to be wholesome …’
I am sitting at the kitchen table, sucking the knobbly end of a biro and glancing at the clock as the big hand moves...
You Can’t Be Serious – Maybe it isn’t “better to travel than to arrive”?
Not since an Irish-made boat hit a chunk of ice in 1912 has there been such a mad scramble to get off anything, as...
You Can’t Be Serious – The Heart of the Matter …
It is many a poor unfortunate ‘scrut’ I have known who has fallen head over heels in love. Beautiful young maidens have also regularly...
You Can’t Be Serious – ‘The Wedding …’
I attended a wedding last week. It was a ‘grand wedding’, a ‘lovely wedding’ or a ‘great wedding’ – depending on who you were...
You Can’t Be Serious – Life is just one big Haka!
Traditionally the haka was performed by Maori warriors going into battle and intended as a means of intimidating combatants. It has famously been adopted...
