Lo scorso fine settimana, nello Stade de France a Parigi la nostra squadra di rugby ha vinto il Trofeo delle Sei Nazioni. Ho guardato la partita in un bar a Galway. L’atmosfera era molto tesa come un prima a teatro! Volevamo cosi tanto vincere, ma i Quindici Francesi erano molto veloci, molto grandi, e molto [...]
Read MoreI think I may always have known the strengths of character our friends’ possess but it was only when they were challenged in the hardest way possible that I understood what that really meant. I watched a play recently where the playwright had family members gather on the anniversary of JFK’s assassination. The play [...]
Read MoreI recently spent two weeks, studying Italian in the Instituto Michelangelo in Florence. Apart from the cultural experience, Florence is truly very beautiful, the school offered teaching of the highest quality, with museum and gallery visits as well as specially organised evenings when the multi national student groups could mix in the ambience of an [...]
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I have just discovered that our house needs to be re- wired. I know there will be dust and disruption but the end result will be that this lovely 1930′s home will have a whole new level of energy coursing through it. Happy I am to think of that. Then I come across yet another [...]
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Where do you go ? Where will you be? That other wonder place You go to without me. On a rainy day last summer I made a tent with a woollen throw, cast over the back of two chairs. My grandchildren aged four and two couldn’t wait to climb inside. Even though both ends of [...]
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As a writer easy to say ‘I want to blog’ but maybe not so easy to say interesting things each time I hit the keyboard. So perhaps the best way to start is to expose a little gem I discovered two years ago. This is the Sapphire Writers Group. We meet each Monday morning in [...]
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