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Continue reading →: Monday blues
Belfast has little to distract me or many others on a Monday. La Bottega and a few pubs are closed in my neighbourhood. The Ulster Museum is also closed for the day. My apple chutney is cooling, and I’m bored. What to do and where to go? Go West …the…
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Continue reading →: Sainthood
There’s a story on the BBC website today about Father Willie Doyle, who was an army chaplain to the 16th (Irish) Division of the British army during the First World War. The reason he’s in the news is because he’s been nominated for sainthood. Having recently read Ordinary Saints by…
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Continue reading →: Gaelic football
Along the Lisburn Road there have been blue and yellow flags attached to lampposts for the last week or two. I thought it might have been in support of Ukraine, but it was the colours of a local GAA club, Saint Brigid’s. They had made it to the Country Antrim…
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Continue reading →: A bumper crop of apples
We have two apple trees at each corner at the end of our garden. The one on the left was packed with apples this year, probably because of the warmer than average temperatures. The tree on the right is taller and more exposed. It’s apples wwre less plentiful, but much…
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Continue reading →: Antipodean rugby
I got up at six o’clock this morning to watch the second game in the Bledisloe Cup series between Australia and New Zealand. The All Blacks are a tough team to beat and they proved their worth in the first half by running in 7 tries against the Wallabies 3.…
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Continue reading →: Where does the time go?
I am a regular at La Bottega, a classy Italian restaurant on the Lisburn Road in Belfast. I enjoy nothing more than sitting at the bar drinking my espresso and chatting with the other caffeine fans. Today, I have sat on the same barstool since about midday for two and…
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Continue reading →: Poetry classes
I will be attending eight weekly poetry classes from today. Stephanie Conn’s classes are described as More Pockets of Joy, but I’m not going to hold that against her. Two hours from 2pm to 4pm every Tuesday until December 1st…for roughly £10 per class, can’t be bad. I look forward…
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Continue reading →: Mary Berry’s soup recipe
Some time ago, I bought Mary Berry’s book “Soups, Starters and Salads.” Her Spiced Autumn Soup is delicious: Using a smaller amount of stock, substituting sweet potatoes, and using only one tin of tomatoes didn’t seem to compromise the flavour. I had grated the zest of orange instead of getting…
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Continue reading →: Ulster rugby
I was at the Ulstet v Munster game yesterday evening and had that dread feeling that Ulstet were going to throw it all away in the first half. Munster brought the physicality and clinical passing moves that got them a bonus point and three tries by half time. 5-26 seemed…
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