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Posted in Television, Uncategorized, Women on Mar 31st, 2011
Here’s my guilty secret – I watch Coronation Street. Ever since the tram crash, I have been reeled right in. I’m not about to defend my viewing though – you can judge me whatever way you want to on that issue. I am, however, going to share an element of discomfort I have with a [...]
Like the vast majority of people in this country, I was born into a Catholic family and was brought up as a Catholic. However, as I have not considered myself a Catholic for many years, and putting down “liberal agnostic who sometimes attends services at the Unitarian church” doesn’t seem quite right, I’m going for [...]
Posted in Art, Crafty, Domestic, Guest Posters, Personal on Mar 29th, 2011
Yes, we’re all being told to make do and mend and embrace craftiness. But actually, making stuff yourself often isn’t cheap. So let’s hear it for Regina de Búrca, who offers a guide to being crafty on a budget. I come from a long line of women who knit, sew and crochet. My forebears’ sole [...]
Posted in Anti Room Q&A, Music on Mar 28th, 2011
Polystyrene was just a teenager when she became the singer in punk band X-Ray Spex. In 1977, they released their classic single ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ and played on the same bill as bands like The Buzzcocks and Wire. After struggles with her mental health, Poly opted out of music. She has spent the last [...]
Posted in Food, Guest Posters, Saturday Dish on Mar 26th, 2011
Yes. These are seriously good. I’m a firm believer in dessert before/instead of dinner, not to mention the use of food to butter somebody up. Now if you make these you shall be in the good books for at least weeks if not months… In the mood I was in on one glorious Friday, I [...]
I didn’t take up drinking tea until very late in life – my twenties, as it happens. Yes, I know that one’s twenties don’t exactly qualify as autumn years, but so engrained is the concept of The Tay in Ireland, not supping of a cuppa until you’ve moved out from home is as alien as [...]
Posted in Education, Guest Posters, Personal on Mar 24th, 2011
Salvete! Abigail Rieley on the joys of learning Latin. The Eagle, based on The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff, hits Irish cinemas this weekend – I’m counting the days. Every time I see those toilet brush helmets my heart gives a little flutter. It’s not the sight of Russell Crowe wielding a gladius [...]
Posted in Charity, Family, Health, Personal on Mar 23rd, 2011
Jean Harrington on why she couldn’t consider buying a daffodil for Daffodil Day – until now… I’ve always been a great sport, and would consider myself an altruistic person. I have enthusiastically fundraised for different charities over the years, and partook in dinner dances, fun-days, table quizzes, sponsored fasts, sponsored walks and parachute jumps (just [...]
Posted in Celebrity, Humour, International, Random Wonderfulness on Mar 22nd, 2011
Easily the funniest thing you will see anywhere on the internet today. Imagine Kate’s delight. I hope she and Wills have bought a full set of these…. The Fairytale Romantic Union of All the Centuries Share this:EmailFacebook
Posted in Body image, Family, Ireland, Media, Parenting, Society on Mar 22nd, 2011
I have two daughters aged nine and nearly seven. And I think they’re gorgeous. That’s all the validation I need – my own Mammy-eyes, which would view my children as gorgeous no matter what they looked like. I don’t need to enter them in pageants for strangers to assess them and decide whether or not [...]
